Welcome to season 2, episode 5 of the Jordan B Peterson podcast.

My name is Michaela Peterson and I'm Dr. Peterson's daughter and collaborator.

Today we're presenting Dad's lecture at the Community Theatre in Sacramento, California

recorded on June 27, 2018.

Dad tries to make each of his lectures different, so we hope there'll be something truly new

here for old fans, as well as something generally useful for newer listeners.

He talked about the increasing politicization of the public dialogue, the insistence

that every topic, whether theological, philosophical, or personal, has to be analyzed first and

foremost as a political statement or worse as an expression of power or privilege.

He also talked about the consequences of the rapid transformation of the media landscape,

and the fact that the new long form online videos and podcasts increase our attention

spans and the sophistication of the information that we can be presented with and handle.

Modern audiences are far smarter than the denizens of the old media presume.

Partly because their bandwidth limitations made everyone they were talking to look and

appear less intelligent than they actually were.

The so-called intellectual dark web members have figured out that the people they're

talking to can actually handle far more than anyone had suspected.

This accounts in part for their popularity.

He closes with a discussion of the profound western idea of the sovereignty and responsibility

of the individual, and the need to act that out in life so that each person is pursuing

something profound enough to give their life meaning.

Dad, was there anything particularly compelling about this lecture?

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