Realistic Optimism | Matt Ridley & Jordan B. Peterson 

Dr. Peterson is looking better with every new video, and I’m glad! I’ll be praying and hoping for good health for him and his family. 😊

Thanks for the great content Mr. Jordan! Today is my 17th birthday and I've been watching your content since I was 14 and I can say that you're one of the youtubers who have made a difference in my life, keep up the great work!

You're looking much healthier. I'm very glad you've bounced back as well as you have

Realizing that 170k people get out of poverty every day absolutely makes my day.

I would suggest that Mr. Peterson talked with Gina Carano, but by now it is pretty evident we need that.

Optimism 👍. We never had it so good. Ask your grandparents. Enjoy what you have. We need more of this. 👌

Thanks for the clips Mr. Peterson. 👍🏼

Those double doors are so cool. The designs are very eye catching.

I've enjoyed these clips with Matt quite a lot. Just downloaded his "rational optimist" book on audible to sit on my digital shelf alongside 12 rules hehe

Fascinating ideas.

Optimism is best served through spirituality

You look wonderful, Jordan!

I think there's also the idea floating around that we've had it good for too long and we're sort of "due."

Dr. Peterson, I am looking forward to your new book, especially in audio. Your vocal inflections bring every word to life as well as the meaning you intend to give them. I'm also hopeful that, in due time, you will have another "get together" to discuss the New Testament. You have been sorely missed and I fear that, though you may be loathe to admit it, you were bringing a truth to faith as well as culture, and current events. As the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen might say, you are shining a light on the darkness, the demon, and that has its consequences. Your cross got heavy in a hurry. So, I do pray for you on a daily basis. Your voice, your reason, your blunt critiques are sorely needed. As the 80's had President Reagan, PM Thatcher, and Pope John Paul II, this era has you, Jocko Willink, and, much to many people's chagrin, Donald J. Trump. I would be remiss if I did not include Joe Rogan. Although he may not be comfortable with that yoke. God bless you good sir. You and your family. Your daughter has your ferocity. God bless you all and continued healing and health.

Everything is getting better except us.

Interesting

Decent suit - good tie too.

This was such a great interview, hope you are doing well Mr Peterson sir. Best of wishes to you and your family

Mr Peterson , your lectures have brought about a dramatic positive change in my life, especially the biblical series , even though I’m not a Christian. I wanted to ask you about the exodus series as I am eagerly waiting for it for years now. Again you have no idea how much people love u not only India where I live but all across the globe and media’s attempt to frame you is now becoming futile as in the recent case of Decca , she not only has to face harsh criticism all across internet but also has lost her general status ..... you sire , are remarkable.

During the 90's I was involved in improving family care in the US thanks to our demands at the union negotiating table for the IBEW and CWA with AT&T and it's spin-off Lucent Tech. I was a co-chair of a committee in a large metropolitan city that had several offices represented by the two unions. The 3 co-chairs worked hard and we opened several resource centers and help many family care providers, in home, before and after school, and elder care facilities that benefited not only the represented workers but the community at large. We even had a big write up in the AT&T employee magazine. We were invited to the annual meeting of a local family care organization and the keynote speaker was unable to attend at the last moment. I was ask to step up and give the keynote speech. I had no time to prepare so I did it off the cuff with data I had on hand. My upbeat positive speech was received poorly and I became disillusioned and resigned my position. What was the point, everything we had done was treated as insignificant and I was personally attacked based on a difficult time in our early family relationship with my wife's bipolar son who became a juvenile delinquent despite our best efforts to get him help. I frankly think it has a lot to due with trait disagreeableness of the predominantly female nature of the care industry. They, by and large, seem to focus on victim hood and negative emotions. It doesn't seem to matter how much progress has been made, they are never satisfied for long.

The bigger the unit the less I understand it.

Im seeing both, Positives and Negatives. I like to be Optimistic- Racism seems to be the main debate or excuse in everything.

Hi Mr Ridley. The Industrial revolution- the current one. 2024 in Australia. Im optimistic, in some regards, The extinction theory. For tradesman and Manual Laborers- My body can't do the things it used to ( 3 herniated discs ) For the astute Or wealthy assimilators, travellers, investors perhaps, I would still like to adhere to an extinction theory. For morals, respect, manners, New behaviour I would have an equal and opposing theory myself I need to learn.

some things are better

I have a very important question!!! Are u growing out the beard again?

Kerm man say it ok

why is the original video private?

You, as a person can only influence some much. You feel you have power over your family, your social circle and maybe your town if you speak loud enough. You don't feel the same with large units. It can feel powerless when you (as an individual) see danger in cancer causing pesticides, disappearing species, your own senseless government killing innocent civilians, kids are collateral damage... The only hope to control bigger units is collectively. Wars on other countries, on the environment or a city that not addressing issues with their harm causing water pipelines are not sudden, they take times and need collective effort to stop them. Once they are happening, it is much harder to stop it. If we are talking about cancer, more and more people will be aware of the problem, more and more details are coming our, we become a group who has a chance to change the unhealthy policies. Instead of a whole community or a much bigger size of a group getting cancer from something, we can thank the canaries, who were unfortunately the ones that called for attention and addres the issue for the rest of us. We have less cancer because people worked very very hard. To better the medicine and to go after huge corporations. Although we have plenty to be grateful for, all that also greatly made the dangers higher too. Again, it is a dance. It is not one side or the other, but both. We should not dial down the warning system, the more aware we are, the earlier we can react. The only problem if we know too much about dangers that we "unnecessarily" will fix things that maybe can't kill us. That is a good think comparison to be too late and the whole planet will suffer. To stop feeling gloomy doomy, we have to empower the new generation. We have to try to make sure that we leave them with well working systems. Governments that are not corrupt so they listen and address the problem, not helping the corporations to keep doing what they have been doing. Education that produces free and critical thinkers, creative people who can manifest their gifts. A society where people don't get away with things, but pay for the negative consequences of their actions. Neing a bully and a parasite on others are not a tolerated behavior, not a social norm. We have to raise our efficiency. That is what the new generation needs. Which is VERY exciting. Creating a just, well organized and functioning society is exciting. It gives you self respect and respect for others. Working together creates community and more than enough hope for a meaningful future.

From many of the men I have met there seems to be a reoccurring theme of doomsday thoughts and fears. That of a rapture or disaster of some kind. It's my thinking that it's predominantly inherent. We are wired for survival after all. But.. there is also the idea that men need somewhere to aim their masculinity and feel useful. These men I have met personally come from backgrounds in which fathers were unavailable or unreliable and I feel that this directly causes people to become more of survivalist types. But with nothing to really apply it to they have imaginations of disaster. To become a hero perhaps or to gain approval? Who knows for sure? As far as the majority of women I have met go, they seem to be more occupied with present issues and great problem solvers there are. Often drive or willingness to take action or realize power is an issue though. I am not married to these thoughts but I enjoy exploring them. I myself feel so lucky to be alive in this time. I would hope it only gets better. I will do what I can, will you?

I always feel that Jordan Peterson is on to something but he never quite gets there.

Have things got better though? Overall? This argument to me is really missing an important point that has much more to do with spiritual health than our immediate and easier access to material goods. I believe our religious dependence on these high-tech material goods is a fundamental problem. Not a solution. Certainly not at this point. This has been decades in the making. If these material goods and access to resources were so important than why else are millions suffering from the meaning crisis? It doesn't make sense and the answers are right in front of us. What about beauty, history, great art and great music? From this perspective we are living in the worst time imaginable. In regards to the global decrease in poverty, Covid-19 is proving it to be a finite success. These achievements are now hanging by a thread. Global incompetence in leadership is at an all-time high. We can carry on with blind-faith in new-age materialism and think that a generation of people addicted to Playstations, smartphones, and any kind of digital entertainment/escapism in front of them is somehow a recipe for a healthy society instead of values in love, family, music, art and literature. Exactly what the devil would arrange. Increased divorce rates, single parenthood, mass reliance and addiction to modern technological facets of entertainment, extreme cases of social alienation and loneliness, a miserably failing education system, the decline of familial love being at the forefront of virtue....this list can just go on and on and on. I love you man, and I pray for you and your family, but for many of us who have followed you from your inception into alternative media are awaiting a new diet. Which is there if people look hard enough. But this repetitive dependence on materialism is paying a huge price. I hope you and others heed this comment as something worth pondering. We need to wake up. We need Art. Beauty. Music. We need to cook all our own meals. We need to return to our families and others being first before us.

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