Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast.

I'm Michaela Peterson, Dad's daughter and collaborator.

Today's episode is a 12 rules for life lecture called Playing the Hierarchical Game Part

1 recorded in Melbourne, Australia on February 13th, 2019.

Enjoy the podcast.

Playing the Hierarchical Game Part 1.

A Jordan B. Peterson 12 rules for life lecture.

Man, that's a lot of Australians.

Well, thank you very much for coming out. It's really quite something to see all of you

here. As Dave said, this is the largest venue that we've spoken at.

I had a couple of debates with Sam Harris, one in Dublin and one in London, that were in

larger venues, but as far as speaking specifically about 12 rules, this is damn near twice as

big as the next biggest auditorium. I think we were at the Apollo in London and it held

3,000 people, and so that was good, but this is really something. There must be quite

a dearth of things to do in Melbourne tonight. No, seriously, though it's remarkable to see

all of you come out to engage in what I believe to be fundamentally a serious conversation

about psychological and philosophical and perhaps certainly ethical, perhaps even religious

issues. Who would have ever guessed that there was a mass market for that? Apparently there

is. Maybe we're smarter than we think we are. I have a suspicion that that might be

the case. One of the things that I've noticed about the intellectual dark web types, that's

a name that Eric Weinstein, you might be familiar with him came up with and it wasn't like

we all got together and built a little fort out in our backyard and called it the intellectual

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