Reacting to JP Vivek Ramaswamy interview, Philosophical ponderings, Masculinity

Jordan Peterson interviewing 2024 Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and other political ponderings. Join the discord server to call in.

17:24 Organically creating a culture of Duty, Exodus: Order and Chaos, Apollonian and Dionysian
24:53 Sacrificing Freedom for Duty to Collective Group
27:15 Organizations/Corporations purpose
29:14 Ukraine War, Military Industrial Complex
31:39 Imperial Identity, Moral Justifications for War
37:23 Does having public Moral justification allow more clandestine operations/bending the rules
40:34 Troubleshooting audio
44:00 Continued Moral justification with clandestine/bending the rules
46:20 China vs American Imperial identity, Public relations, National building etc.
58:35 Homeless Person donation Analogy, Expectation vs Reality, Intention
1:06:019 Video resumes
1:29:49 Video ends, Game of Chess with Steuart
1:44:56 Attempting Knight and Bishop Checkmate
1:58:39 Watching Captain Sinbad’s Rise of Weak Men video
2:02:16 Larger vs Small Army level of Camaraderie
2:04:10 Video resumes
2:05:38 Masculinity rooted in Biology, Evolution hasn’t caught up to Technological/Social Advancement, Schopenahuer’s Will to Life
2:10:34 Humans seek order, overindulgence in pleasure, Schopenahuer’s Will to Life, using natural masculine energy to be productive, mental health issues/depression
2:14:14 Societies/Empires/Civilizations grow decadent, Moral decay, Why people born into comfort have difficulty succeeding, meeting predecessors expectations, Alexander the Great, Rome
2:17:24 Suffering is necessary for innovation, Innovation is now geared towards consumption
2:19:28 Wealth/Making money vs Real innovation, Impacting History, True Success, Greatness
2:24:53 Video resumes
2:30:29 Mastery, Traditional Masculinity, Subjectivity vs Objectivity, Sports, Art
2:40:12 Video resumes
2:42:14 Video ends, Confronting uncomfortable realities, Confronting yourself, Our complicity in decadent Societies, avoiding truth, Entertainment/Pleasures as Distraction,
2:47:37 Absolute Power corrupts absolutely, LOTR Frodo and the Ring of Power, Not letting corruption from power overcome goodness as a leader
2:49:00 Political messages in Art, Wokeness to appeal to a wider audience
2:50:42 Words losing meaning, Red pill, Woke, Fascism, Communism
2:57:41 Words being used wrong, Buzzwords
2:59:55 Anarchist intentions of Communism
3:03:24 Elliot Rodgers, The issue with “Nice guys” and Incels, Be a better person, Don’t fear rejection, How I stopped being an Incel, Talking to Women and having valuable relationships
3:10:55 Concluding