Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People
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🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jordan Peterson joins Tyler to discuss collecting Soviet propaganda, why he’s so drawn to Jung, what the Exodus story can teach us about current events, his marriage and fame, what the Intellectual Dark Web gets wrong, immigration in America and Canada, his tendency towards depression, Tinder’s revolutionary nature, the lessons from The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, fixing universities, the skills needed to become a good educator, and much more.
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Recorded January 27th, 2019
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| 0:30.0 | Thank you, Jordan. |
| 0:33.4 | I'd like to give the audience a kind of rapid-fire overview of your thought and also your |
| 0:38.2 | life as a human being. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm looking forward to hearing that. |
| 0:41.1 | Let me start with a very lateral question. |
| 0:44.1 | Why do you collect all communist memorabilia and propaganda? |
| 0:47.7 | Well, part of its dark comedy. |
| 0:49.6 | Well, really, you know, I spent quite a bit of time on eBay for a number of years. |
| 0:55.0 | I had read this article by a psychologist named James Pennebaker and he said that the |
| 1:00.8 | past turned into history at about 15 years. |
| 1:04.0 | That's when you start to see people commemorate events in the past. |
| 1:07.6 | And at that point, it was 2004. |
| 1:11.5 | And I thought, oh, that's interesting. |
| 1:12.7 | It's 15 years since the Soviet Union collapsed. |
| 1:16.0 | Maybe I can go online and see what historical memorabilia is left over. |
| 1:20.0 | And so I went on eBay looking up Soviet artifacts. |
| 1:23.4 | But I thought that was so comical because there isn't anything more capitalistic than eBay. |
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