Good evening and welcome to Dr. Jordan B Peterson's We Who Wrestle with God Tour. Yeah, And All these great bands and here you are tonight. Well thank you very much for coming. Let me tell you what's going to happen tonight.

I'm going to share my thoughts with you for 70 minutes, thereabouts.

Then I have a special guest here,

Constantine Kizen, who runs a podcast.

Good, well you should know about him definitely crazy Russian from the UK.

Yeah, a real voice of reason for our fellow Westerners in the UK.

Constantine is going to come out on stage and torture me about what I said, I hope.

Well, what I'm hoping, Constantine is a very clear thinker,

very witty man.

He's got a very sharp mind. He's critically oriented in the best possible way.

A good critical mind separates the wheat from the chaff, right? Because to be

property critical isn't to hurt or destroy with criticism. It's to separate what's truly

valuable from what isn't valuable so that you have solid ground to stand on and

you know one of the things that I've strived to do in my whole academic career is to move

closer and closer to believing and stating and writing things that I can't move.

And you do that yourself by subjecting your own presumptions to critical analysis.

You do that so that you think through what you're doing so that you don't act out your stupid ideas in the world and die.

And that's the purpose of thinking, right?

Seriously, the purpose of thinking is to have your stupid ideas die instead of you.

And that's part of the reason

why your enemy can be your best friend,

because if someone can take out something you think

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