Intro:
One of my favorite and most convicting videos featuring a deep and foundational line of thinking from Jordan Peterson. Here’s a transcript, which I’ve edited and whittled down for clarity since it started out as speech.
The deception of internet porn
35% of internet traffic is pornographic, it’s driven by women too, parading themselves.
Women who engage in that aren’t innocent by any stretch of the imagination. “Look at me” it’s like no no wrong wrong.
Those women online displaying themselves they’re succubi. They’re not human. If you think that’s human you’re a fool.
At minimum it’s a machine human hybrid. A woman doesn’t appear in a million places at the same time.
Whatever that is that’s not a woman.
Hiding from your destiny
It’s people wanting to consume that thing they can’t have that they have idolized the thing that is denied to them because they hid their light under a bushel.
Because they hid who they could become from themselves and never pursued it. And so they’re not attractive to themselves or anyone else. Brutal.
Women’s ascended power position
You’ve got women ascending to a position of power that weird dynamic of postmodernism. They’ve been given a gift of being able to persuade men through their beauty to do what they will to get the attention that they want.
Now as a mechanical hybrid they’re able to appear in tens of thousands, hundreds of thousand millions of places.
They sit on the chests of men and take their essence from them.
Decide to be useful
Men are hiding their potential away from themselves. They’re punished, which gives them an excuse for hiding their potential.
I’m going to the young guys let’s say who decide to be useless. Some of it’s genuine response to not being encouraged and to being punished. Some of it is, but some of it it’s pretty convenient.
It’s like you don’t have to put your cross on your shoulder. It’s like no one wants me to do that anyways.
Well yeah that that’s always been the case and I mean in some ways there’s there’s new impediments to striding forward confidently, but there’s always been impediments.
I train anybody that will listen that you need to have beliefs in your life and since facts are overwhelming it’s not about recognizing what’s true it’s about recognizing what’s useful.
You have a set of beliefs, you have a set of values, so you have hierarchy.
You have to have a goal and that goal needs to be honorable.
It’s fascinating because whenever you discover the same thing from multiple different disciplines you can be pretty sure you’re converging on the truth.
Calling and Conscience
You could imagine the spirit of God in the Old Testament makes Himself manifest in two forms, calling and conscience.
Conscience is the guard rails. It’s like you’re going off the path you know so there’s fences and warnings on the conscience side. The dynamic between this is what happens in the movie Pinocchio.
Pinocchio’s Adventures & Pitfalls of Avoiding Consciousness
Pinocchio is called out into the world, his father is a benevolent creator, that’s Japeto. He’s called out into the world to make himself manifest, to realize himself, to become real and there’s two things that attract him. He wants to go out and learn and have his adventure. That’s the calling, but that has to be aligned with the conscience, and the reason for that is the calling alone gets him in trouble.
Like first of all it entices him to becoming a narcissistic psychopathic manipulative actor. That’s when he’s on stage right then it entices him into lying to get away with things and to get what he wants. That manipulation entices him to become neurotic enough so that he can take a permanent holiday. Then he goes to Pleasure Island where he can engage in hedonism.
That’s where the slavers are.
And you need a conscience along for the ride and that’s Jiminy Cricket.
And Jiminy Cricket is is what bugs you, and so that’s one of the places you can find your destiny is in what bothers you.
There’s going to be an array of things that make themselves manifest to you as callings of your conscience.
From Personal Sin to Global Destiny
How far will we have to go depends on how many sins you decide to continue harboring. How is that decision connected to the destiny of the world. We all bear the world on our shoulders.
Here’s one way of thinking about it: How much better would the people around you be if you were better? Some obviously. What’s the ultimate extent of that?
What if you were everything you could be? What you’re called upon to be. Why? Not least because, try getting through the world without doing it, then you’ll end up in the position of Cain. You didn’t offer your best. You’ll be rejected by man woman and God and yourself. Then you’re bitter, then you’re fratricidal, then you’re murderous, then you’re genocidal, then the flood comes or you erect the Tower of Babel.
Conclusion:
In this transcript, Jordan Peterson attacks the mindless vices that we can easily become ensnared by. His unique and eloquent manner of description is informed by his intelligently analyzed research and life experience. You’ll notice quite a few Christian themes running throughout this transcript. Jordan encourages us to deny hedonism, to listen to Jesus’ instructions, let our light shine before others, and to be useful and fulfill our destiny.