“The German Problem”

An analysis of Jordan Peterson’s video of the same name. What makes the difference with Germany?

[marvin]

I believe you are mixing things up at 6:20. Not Heidegger but Hegel was the source of "history is moving in a particular direction". Heidegger couldnt have influenced Marx of course since he lived AFTER Marx.

In general, there are many inaccuracies and downright falsities in your statements. I'm not accusing you, merely pointing out here is growth for critically looking at your understanding of philosophy and perhaps updating it.

For example Nietzsche was by no means whatsoever a nihilist. This misunderstanding is a "don't shoot the messenger situation". He was actually regretting the state of the West, noting that it had fallen into nihilism and that thus new values are necessary.

Heidegger was not pessimistic, you likely mean Schopenhauer who was a famous pessimist, probably the biggest pessimist philosopher ever.

Heidegger was the first explicit definer of existentialist thought, though he wouldn't call himself that. The french existentialists Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus all build off of Heidegger, who himself is based on Nietzsche and Kierkegaard before that. Nietzsche of course famously influenced by Schopenhauer, yet turning in the exactly inverse direction and developing philosophy that embraces and loves life.

The situation that lead to National Socialism is way more complex and more deep, e.g. the militaristic, duty-bound culture of Prussia is something you didn't touch upon AT ALL.

Also the history and deep entrenchment of antisemitism is not mentioned, this was not created by firey Hitler speeches out of nowhere, no. Antisemitism was rampant all across Europe, which is why many locals helped deport Jews once the Nazis occupied their Lands, e.g. in Poland or France.

Hitler combined antisemitism, Ressentiment regarding the state of Germany and the perceived humiliation of WW1, the economic malaise due to the Depression and massive reparations to France and others, losing the Ruhrgebiet, and an unstable first-in-German-history democracy in the Weimar republic. Also due to industrialisation there was a general change of societal structure, explaining the strength of the social democrats and communists at the time. And if you notice "Nazi" is short for National-SOCIALIST.

Thus, I have to say, I really enjoy your content on epistemology, but in this topic there are serious misconceptions in your knowledge and in my view you'd need to update your understanding to better be able to explain why the things happened that happened.

[NeilEvans-xqik]

One can be both religious and rational. I would contend that it makes no sense to commit to one but not the other, much less to neither. Respectfully, I would suggest your understanding of religion is insufficient. There is much more to it than has met your eye thus far.