Don't Take Humanities Courses! - Jordan Peterson

Don't Take Humanities Courses - Jordan Peterson

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Don't Take Humanities Courses - Jordan Peterson

Don't Take Humanities Courses - Jordan Peterson

Don't Take Humanities Courses - Jordan Peterson

Don't Take Humanities Courses - Jordan Peterson

Don't Take Humanities Courses - Jordan Peterson

Don't Take Humanities Courses - Jordan Peterson

Don't Take Humanities Courses - Jordan Peterson

Don't Take Humanities Courses - Jordan Peterson

[davidwilson]

After seeing this I will do MA in Humanities from American Public University.

[rampageclover]

Nobody wants arts and humanities to go....we want to save it

[TiJacQc]

I'd like to share my small experience with humanities thus far. Early this year I joined the history program at University of Montreal. I was warned many times not to join for how corrupted it would be by ideology, but I have a burning passion for the history of French Canada and I wanted to share that passion with others and hopefully some day become a teacher and live from that passion I share for our history.

Before that, I read a few of the great books Jordan recommanded. Amongst these, were the books such as Endurance, The Gulag Archipelago, Ordinary Men and Man Searching for Meaning. Those books follow men going through some of the hardest challenges men must have fought. It not only depicts those events with precision, but more so than that, it also proposes different philosophies to the reader. In Gulag Archipelago for example, the author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was sent to the Gulag where he served for 17 years. As he describes it, the Gulag must have been the absolutely worst place for any man to step foot in. I'm talking about having to work 12 to 16 hours a day in the cold of Siberia, with next to nothing to eat every day, serving an unfair sentence. And yet, what struck me the most about this book was the Author's scream for life. Even though he'd been unfairly jailed, he still saw beauty to life. For him, the Gulag had served as a prison for all the wrongs he'd done in his crimes, whether it'd be for the lies he's told, the horrors he's let allowed or the crimes he commited towards God. He came out of it in love with life and screaming that life, even if led through suffering was worth living.

That was the sort of history I was looking for, history that inspires the heart of men to go on in life, despite suffering. And that is also something that can be seen through french canadian history seen as many early colonisers and clergymen who came to evengilize the natives suffered a great deed in the new world that was often pitiless towards them at first. I came to the history program in hope to find more men whom their story could inspire me to push through the own suffering in my life and through the suffering of life in general.

What I instead got were history classes solely focused to demonize us, whether us was the french canadian, or the french, or the romains and greeks, all that was related to western civilisation was to be seen with a critical eye. I'm not one to say we should not criticise ourselves, I do know we have our share of evil committed. But when I read the room of the class, I see bitter people cheering for the unearned criticism of their ancestors, ready to call them names with great prejudice against them. But mostly, I see no love. No love for our heroes, no love for our land, but mostly, no love for life. It is sad, because when I read the Gulag Archipelago and Man Searching for Meaning, both authors who lived through horrors of the 20th century work camp believed that suffering was meaning and a necessary part of life and came out of there loving life still. But when I hear of the oppression that faced either the natives, or women or the muslims whom we crusaded against, it is as though the wrong we've comitted was so unequivalent that no good fruits could flourish out of it. I am not justifying whatever horrors we may have done just like I am not justifying the horrors of the Gulag or of the concentration camps, but it is missleading I believe to act as though something can be so easily wrote off as evil and horrible and offer no nuanced point of view like Solzhenitsyn did. Perhaps it is not our place to speak of such things, after all, Solzhenitsyn lived through the Gulag and I didn't, it's true, but I too have suffered and shall suffer a great deal before my death, I wish simply that people could know that even if people of the past suffered as well, this does not mean that all their lives were there on out a great resentment and a cry of pain. Life is complicated, and through suffering we can see light and laugh still. And that is what the books i've read inspired me to do.

But when I'm in class, I feel ashamed, dead and beaten. As though life is too hard to take, especially in face of suffering. But such a perspective I believe is missleading. For life and history were not only suffering and oppression, but also a constant fight against those. For example, the man in my profile picture, Augustin Chauvy was a french mathematician born near the French Revolution. He dedicated most of his life to both towards advanced mathematical work, but also towards charity work for the poor. I stumbled upon his biography that was written some 30 years after his passing in the 19th century. That book left a great impact on me, it made me want to be as good as this man and care as much as he did for the poor. But history classes won't talk about him. They won't talk about Frankl. They won't talk about Solzhenitsyn or the crew in the book Endurance. That is what I believe the greatest crimes of the humanities, their shallow vision of history. It is empty of heart. Of virtue. And full of bitterness and a desire for our society to go extinct. It is against life itself. Perhaps you think science shouldn't have any of that heart of virtue or sentimentalism, but believe me, the next generation of teachers will be empty corpses that will know nothing of heroic deeds of the past, but will know the sins of all historical figures and who has sinned too greatly to be talked about or not. And because they'll be corpses with no love for their history or country, our history will go extinct more than it already has.

[tessemo]

what does he mean by saying humanities are at the core of western culture? I'm pretty sure humanities are greatly valued in non-western cultures as wel

[lauraoldermanart]

There are these things called “libraries” that will lend out a lot of books so you don’t just have to depend on Amazon (hope you got a kickback for that plug). Also, when you’re finished with your commercial can you itemize the reasons why one should not take Humanities courses? The title suggested the answer might be found in this video.

[lesleybrady]

Please do this humanitarian course! Xx

[tinmy]

I’m trying to find a reason to not major in the humanities to see how useful it might be, the fact that the first video that came up was from Jordan Peterson I think I’m safe

[rallers]

I am not interested in anything else then topics related to humanities SO WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO? The humanity school online he talks about has not opened yet!

[samuelking]

Psychology is basically a humanities major.

[OMAR-vqyb]

Jordan: Well, the problem here is that the stomach is making sounds therefore signalling that my satiation levels are depleting which indicates I should consume a meal. But then, it depends on what we MEAN by depleting. Are we depleted enough so that we have to eat now, or can we DELAY the time to break our fast? Is there a threat in our vicinity that threatens our place in our hierarchal positioning that necessities eating to ensure that we have energy in the event that we need to battle for our lives? Carl Jung/Fredrich Nietzche /Dostovesky once said "...". And those bloody Marxists and postmodernists...
Me: I'm hungry

[raghavlamba]

I Had Completed My Graduation In Arts B.A Now I Am Pursing M.A in Political Science

[sillygirl]

Interesting advert. About 10 seconds on anything directly relating to the video title 😂 and they cut it up to just include a blanket statement, no reasoning to explain or back it up. This was the worst video ever... 😂😂🙈🤦🏻‍♀️

[markmerzweiler]

Kind of odd for a guy who loves Dostoyevsky.

[monushmarak]

It's odd as you tell people to read Fyodor Dostoevsky. Like Literature students study those novels and analyse from psychological lens and other theories. I think you need to brush up literary products where all forms of knowledge were written in poetry 🤣.

[old-man-two-ears]

don't go to school, pirate "books", any book, as long as the author isn't a professor I assume... gosh. this guy...

[wooeidikd]

Jordan Peterson admits his course is useless 😂😂

[TacosYBurritosP]

He’s so politically conservative it makes him myopic

[raymonddonahue]

Jordan doesn't explain why he feels the way he does about the university. I agree with him that the university is the process of destroying the Humanities. I have had personal experience at the Univ of Chicago's Basic Program. After many classes and earning a Master of Liberal Arts, a change took place. I don't know if it is a cultural change or deliberate change in the way classic texts are interpreted. I know Jordan doesn't like the Postmodernists and neither do I and I think this is where he is coming from....the Death of the Author. This is where any interpretation of any text is the correct interpretation or should I say the politically correct interpretation of the text is the correct interpretation. On my wall at home I have my military honors reminding me of my 23 years of military service. Each medal or certificate meant hard work and sacrifice and a commitment to truth and honor. The Masters I received from the Univ of Chicago is not there among these awards, it's in the trash.

[piyushkeni]

Plz help me l am in 9th std and I am very confused. Which field should I choose! Please some idea! 💡

[ExistentialWill]

Follow Peterson and you too can write and lie like a greedy sophist.