When The King Kills His Jester

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[artmusicalley]

"If you can't be funny, you're not free." Wow, yes

[tackyman]

"If we can't be funny, then we're not free."
THIS

[oliveoilx]

He’s really on the trail of truth. Mr. Peterson is tracking things so accurately- even his take on pugs- especially that - hard truths but necessary to speak them. Joking aside, it is inspiring to hear from him and contemplate his views.

[tiotoxico]

Can´t stop listening to Dr. Peterson and agree with him in almost everything he says. It has been like 6 years already.

[garylake]

To kill your jester is the moral equivalent of Pinnochio strangling Jimminy Cricket.

[suggesttwo]

3:03 In the book 1984 the the laws were laid out that no one could follow every law. You were guilty of something.

[scottgregory]

For years, Dr. Peterson has given me a north star to chase. Thank you Mr. Rubin for sitting on his right side.

[quinbagwell]

"Who defines hate?" "It's not a scientific category."

[vatonage]

The bit about the pugs was actually pretty funny

[AngelfromGenX]

We look away from horror, but when a PUG salutes Hitler, you can look the horror in the face without experiencing the harm, and that's cathartic if you ask me. It's a way of taming the monster, by laughing in it's face.

[ajumbo]

"Whom you must not offend, it is he that controls you." - Voltaire, sorta.

[johnpalmer]

Never forget George Orwell was british and quite prophetic.

[Knape-vzml]

Comedians can be just as tenable as they want to be, it should not be a crime.

[baritony]

Pererson's search for the correct word(s) only impresses me with his high standards of communication. I thought it could be an uncomfortable digression without an answer but he brought it home with his usual articulation.

[soundknight]

"...and were gonn'a deserve to pay for it too...."
GOLD.

[Knape-vzml]

Comedians can be just as tenable as they want to be, it should not be a crime.That is exactly right, when the king kills the jester you know that he is a tryant.

[JavierCR]

He makes his point in such a solid argument that it makes it kind of irrefutable

[homofloridensis]

There's a female comedian, whose name I forget, unfortunately, who, after a slight pause in audience reaction said, "You think it, I say it. That's how this game works."

For a comedian to garner a large audience, they have to be saying what many of us think but censor. They tell us something about ourselves we need to be honest enough to recognize and put into perspective.

[journeywithin]

My daughter was suspended from school for making a tik Tok where she burned a toy chicken and said it has no rights. Well because a charcoaled chicken becomes black, bam, it was now discrimination. Just ridiculous.

[joel]

There is two things to 'People are scared of saying what they want in a free country'

1. Humans fear, in their heart of hearts, two things. Death, and public shame (I believe peterson actually quoted this at one point.)
2. I dont recall the exact king, or specifics, but it was around the 16th century. A king began to notice, as the population grew, they were less inclined to pay taxes.
As the population grew, it became harder and harder to police the unpaid tax. It got to the point where, unless you scaled the military in line with population, you could never control the people.
So they came up with a new way of Governing.
The 'new way', was to turn the people against each other. Saying things like 'We use the tax money for YOU, so if someone doesn't pay, they are stealing from YOU (not the government). They created a police force out of the people.
You dont need an army policing the people, when neighbors would happily dob on each other for free.
We live in this 'new way' currently, and these days the 'policing' comes in the form of puiblic shame.

So the reality is, our society will shame as a form of punishment, which leads directly into human fear, which prevents people from wanting to 'rub against the grain' so to speak.