#448 – Jordan Peterson: Nietzsche, Hitler, God, Psychopathy, Suffering & Meaning
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Lex Fridman
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🗓️ 11 October 2024
⏱️ 150 minutes
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(07:07) - Nietzsche
(14:48) - Power and propaganda
(19:54) - Nazism
(24:54) - Religion
(41:18) - Communism
(47:03) - Hero myth
(49:12) - Belief in God
(59:24) - Advice for young people
(1:12:02) - Sex
(1:32:00) - Good and evil
(1:44:46) - Psychopathy
(1:58:15) - Hardship
(2:10:31) - Pain and gratitude
(2:21:32) - Truth
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Jordan Peterson, his second time on this, the Lex Friedman |
| 0:06.4 | podcast. |
| 0:07.7 | And now a quick use to mention of his sponsor. |
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| 0:21.0 | better help for mental health and element for delicious, delicious electrolytes. |
| 0:26.0 | She was wise in my friends. |
| 0:28.0 | Also if you want to get in touch with me, go to Lex Freeman.com slash contact. |
| 0:31.4 | And now, on to the full l reads. I try to make these interesting but if you skip |
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| 0:45.0 | The thing that makes me feel like home. |
| 0:47.0 | The thing I miss when I'm traveling. |
| 0:50.0 | That's a good definition of home. |
| 0:52.0 | The place you miss the most when you're away from it. |
| 0:55.0 | I think I've read a quote from like Nietzsche or Schopenhauer. |
| 1:00.0 | One of those like hardcore maybe a bit cynical philosophers. Who was it? |
| 1:07.0 | Anyway, the quote was something like, |
| 1:10.0 | Home is the place you have tried to escape the most but failed. |
| 1:14.7 | Oh boy. |
| 1:17.8 | It's kind of like from the whole school of thought that life is suffering and |
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