Regardless of what you think about Jordan Peterson, he certainly gets you to think.
This video, now at almost 1.5M views after a week, I think is worth reposting - for those who want to think.
Would love to hear your ideas in the comments.
Regardless of what you think about Jordan Peterson, he certainly gets you to think.
This video, now at almost 1.5M views after a week, I think is worth reposting - for those who want to think.
Would love to hear your ideas in the comments.
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It seems to me that the roles have reversed to some extent from those we had 70-80 years ago. At this moment, the USA and Europe claim the same - distincly leftist and socialist - moral high ground that Nazi Germany was expressing pre WWII. And yes, after some study I find National Socialism and even Fascism to be historically leftist political movements, but that's a discussion for another day.
You can see it everywhere, cancellation of dissenting voices and persons, intervening in the use of certain words in language, (virtual) book burnings, meddling and corruption in elections (all be it covert this time), the rise to power of the (perceived) weak in society. Even the eugenicist proponents are on the Wests side now. One difference being, we didn't roll out our war machine over other countries for all to see like the Germans back then, but through regime changes and proxy wars. Ukraine is only one more example, in 2014 and now.
On the other side we have Russia and it's allies, who are now assuming patriotism, nationalism and religion their bases of reasoning and rhetoric , something the West was steeped in all these years ago. And it can very well be said that Russia invaded the Ukrain to liberate their people from oppression.
I don't know what will become of this, but I fear the worst. I was going to write "I don't know what's right or wrong", but I do. The right thing is to keep thinking about, and question, your own thought processes and sharing them with other people. Even though you can, and most probably will, be met with substantial resistance. To be August Landmesser, and to take Mitchell and Webb's question in their comedy scetch seriously: "Hans, are we the baddies?"
Ten minutes in and I will comment about Russia not having the proven fuel reserves for the long haul. Russia has enough natural gas for itself for 100 years. That's it. Russian oil reserves aren't all that spectacular either. They are similar to the USA, except that the USA has the capacity to use up our reserves much faster internally. There has to be people in Russia discussing whether keeping the fuel sources for themselves is smarter than engaging in any fuel exports. The numbers don't lie like the policy makers.