391. A Prison is Being Constructed Inside Your Brain | Glenn Greenwald

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Dr. Jordan B Peterson sits down with author, journalist, and political commentator Glenn Greenwald. They discuss the war on information: how social moralism, religious rhetoric, conceptual safety, and false compassion have been used and propagandized to reshape the western world into a good versus bad, red versus blue polarity. They also explore the human need for meta narratives, the basis of morality, and the case for God in a world that offers nihilism. Glenn Greenwald is a journalist, author, and former constitutional law attorney. His original hit blog was a springboard into writing for Salon and the Guardian with a focus on national security issues. In 2013, he published the now iconic Snowden documents detailing global government surveillance by the U.S. and British governments. In 2019 Greenwald again broke leaked documents, this time for “Operation Car Wash,” which shone a spotlight on the corruption of the Brazilian judicial system. He would later detail his work in a series of books such as Securing Democracy: My Fight for Press Freedom and Justice in Brazil and No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. - Links - For Glenn Greenwald: On X https://twitter.com/ggreenwald?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Watch System Update on youtube https://www.youtube.com/@GlennGreenwald

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0:00.0	Hello everyone watching and listening. Today I'm speaking with author, journalist, and
0:19.5	political commentator Glenn Greenwald. We discuss the war on myths and disinformation,
0:26.7	how a false social moralism, religious rhetoric, conceptions of safety, and false compassion
0:34.2	have been used and misused to reshape the Western world into a good versus evil polarity.
0:42.8	We also explore the human need for meta-narratives, the basis of morality, and the case, perhaps,
0:50.0	for God in a world that offers nihilism and totalitarianism as stark alternatives.
0:56.7	All right, so I was looking today through your biography and your books and trying to figure
1:04.8	out what we could most productively discuss and discuss, and I thought that this comment
1:10.0	by Rachel Maddow in 2014 might be a good place to start. She described you in theory,
1:18.0	as the American left's most fearless political commentator, and so I have a bunch of questions
1:25.6	about that, and the first one might be, what the hell is the American left? And do you
1:31.1	think that that's an accurate portrayal of you? I'm not being smart asking that question.
1:37.5	It isn't obvious to me at all how the political lines are drawn now. I'm up in the air
1:44.4	about it constantly. So were you the American left's most fearless political commentator?
1:51.3	Are you still in what do you think the left is? One thing I can tell you for certain is
1:56.9	that that is not something she would say in 2023. My recollection is that was actually
2:02.9	a little bit earlier. I think it might have been 2009 or 10th at the start of the Obama
2:07.5	administration when I became a very vocal critic of the Obama administration, and there
2:14.9	weren't a lot of people who were willing to take the same critique that was being applied
2:18.7	to George Bush and Dick Cheney regarding the war on terror and the assault on civil liberties,
2:23.2	and the name of the war on terror and apply it to Obama, even though Obama not only continued
2:28.3	many of those policies that he campaigned on the vow to uproot, but extended a lot of
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