How to Avoid Being Sucked into an Ideology | Jordan B Peterson

The well developed individual is the antidote to the tyranny of society and biology. Many people don't want to bear the responsibility of developing themselves as individuals so they'll shuffle off their responsibility (by adopting an ideology). And if that means that we're dancing in the streets because everything is on fire than that'll be just fine. From the Joe Rogan Experience #1006:

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[dustinridling]

"Dancing in the street because everything's on fire" ...it's like he predicted the future.

[JamesCarmichael]

I'm back in the gym full time, I've swapped smoking for vaping, I've cut down Alcohol from 2 times a week to once every other week and I'm on Nofap. It's amazing how much money I've saved already. For the first time in my life I'm starting to save money rather than blow it down the pub. I feel great and I'm going to do this for myself.

[asinamirror]

This is so prevalent right now. This is more important now than when he said it 3 years ago.

[jbrtx]

As Russell Kirk wrote, one of conservatism’s most important insights is that
all ideologies are wrong. Ideology takes an intellectual system, a product of one or more
philosophers, and says, “This system must be true.” Inevitably, reality ends up
contradicting the system, usually on a growing number of points. But the ideology, by its
nature, cannot adjust to reality; to do so would be to abandon the system.
Therefore, reality must be suppressed. If the ideology has power, it uses its power
to undertake this suppression. It forbids writing or speaking certain facts. Its goal is to
prevent not only expression of thoughts that contradict what “must be true, ” but thinking
such thoughts. In the end, the result is inevitably the concentration camp, the gulag and
the grave.

[lidiaescobedo]

I live in Guatemala and since a child I have been a well developed has been very hard for me, people are not confortable around are not accoustume to think by them selfs and less...be accountable by their actions. I am a Mayan Priestess, healer and spiritual have students....I teach them to analize everything....including what I teach them and make their own decition and understand that at the end, they are the only one responsible for the kind of life they are living.

[mzittel]

I watched this whole podcast twice now. It is overflowing with deeply thought provoking knowledge that I've spent the last week trying to process. I highly recommend you sit down and watch the full thing on Joe Rogan's channel if you find the chance.

[danskiver]

Personal responsibility is fine but ultimately what we need is a 21st philosophy in this computer/information age. A philosophy that challenges what I call the language problem-(multidimensional cultural problems cannot be solved with a poorly defined linear language system)

[ocrancienthistory]

This turned out to be incredibly prophetic (see videos of the ideologically-possessed BLM dancing in the streets, abdicating personal responsibility, with things on fire in the background).

[Theabysstreasure]

So what he means is that it is not right to follow the herd and behave in an awful manner like the rest.instead we need to reason and decide if the way we are behaving is morally correct .

[ilyaivanov]

This is very incomplete, obviously, due to the amount of time he had to diagnose the issue. Anyone interested in reading an in-depth philosophical explanation about the individual's tendency toward authoritarian collectivism should read Eric Hoffer's The True Believer.

[walkerw]

Probably my favorite few sentences of his.

[hounddog]

I aint saying your god damn pronouns .   - Jordan B Peterson

[uncreatedlogos]

What about the people that don't have the capacity to develop themselves as individuals? (Intellectual capacity)
Can they go on without ideology? Is it even possible?
Or should Individuality be developed in the context of community?
(So that people who may not be able to really think for themselves are surrounded by people who can)

[thethinker]

what is the name of the music damn it!?

[johnmills]

The idea is not to abandon all ideology. It's to breathe life into ideology, to continually update your understanding and structure.

[iberian]

Neil DeGrasse Tyson was smart not to get involved with the new atheists movement.

[williamofdallas]

lol what if you have an ideology based on the significance of personal responsibility

[davidhoward]

One person who rated this is content with their filthy room.

[saisafetytrends]

typo - bear the responsibility not bare

[jordangourley]

Someone want to explain why being a fanatic or ideologically driven is le’ bad?