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" The multiplication force of technology on cognitive differences is massive. "
Jordan Peterson
Technology
Force
Massive
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" You can't have a value structure without a hierarchy. They're the same thing because a value structure means one thing takes precedence over another. "
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" That's another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it's as if things were coming together in my mind. It's like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it's it's like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together. "
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" The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don't want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence. "
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" Become aware of your own insufficiency. "
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" I'm interested in what motivates individuals to participate in atrocious acts to support their ideological identification. "
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" You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it's not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there's been human beings. "
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" You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to. "
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Should
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" It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. "
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" I could hardly sit through 'Frozen.' There was an attempt to craft a moral message and to build the story around that, instead of building the story and letting the moral message emerge. It was the subjugation of art to propaganda, in my estimation. "
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" I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses. "
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I Can
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" One of the things I've told men over and over and over and over is if you're being rejected by all the women that you approach, it's not the women! "
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" Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life. "
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Family
Together
" You can't go backward in life. "
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Life
You
Backward
" If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect. "
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Respect
Who
" No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life. "
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Life
Own
Responsibility
" If you don't stand your ground, then all that happens is people push you backwards. "
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You
Your
Ground
" I've done some analysis of the biblical stories as part of my psychological work. I knew that I had more to do, and every time I've done it, it's been extremely valuable. It makes me a better teacher because I have a richer understanding of cultural history. "
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Teacher
Me
Better
" It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy. "
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Liberals
Up
Nature
" The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can. "
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Inequality
People
Problem
" Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me. "
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Mysterious
Music
Me
" Power is competence. "
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Power
Competence
" Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering. "
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Ideas
Suffering
Difficult
" Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open. "
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Eyes
Accept
Open
" The most propagandistic element of 'Frozen' was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending. "
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Beginning
" I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory. "
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" The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity. "
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" It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over. "
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" It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city. "
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Difficult
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" Our physiological constitution is obviously a product of Darwinian processes, insofar as you buy the evolutional theory as a generative, as an account of the mechanism that generated us. Our physiology evolved, our behaviors evolved, and our accounts of those behaviors, both successful and unsuccessful, evolved. "
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" We're so immaturely cynical as a culture. We're not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they're stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another. "
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