Truth as Glorious Adventure | Douglas Murray with Jordan Peterson

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Douglas Murray, author of “The War on The West,” discuss how a misguided purpose leads to abject misery, the cowardice of experts who choose silence in the face of malevolence, the psychology of fear, and the necessity of willful exposure to combat it.

​​Douglas Murray is a British writer, playwright, media correspondent and political commentator. He is the founder of the think tank the Centre for Social Cohesion, which is now part of the Henry Jackson Society. His publications include but are not limited to: “The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam (2017),” “The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019),” and most recently “The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason (2022)”. Murray has also written columns for publications such as “The Wall Street Journal” and is an associate editor for “The Spectator.”

- Chapters -

(0:00) Coming up
(0:30) Intro
(1:25) The issue of purpose
(3:08) Piaget, the Messianic phase
(5:48) You have to work at gratitude
(8:27) Context collapse, the natural state of mankind
(10:38) Willful blindness, Job, Elijah
(16:33) The pact broken in suicide
(19:55) Resentment and bitterness
(22:39) The meaning of faith
(25:07) Music is the language of religion
(29:07) We put the semantics above depth
(33:00) Jung, the crucifixion, the essence of tragedy
(35:19) Time’s Arrow, seeing evil in reverse
(39:49) The Trial of God
(42:58) Why not deceive yourself?
(44:47) A new category of argument
(48:09) You steer your own misery
(50:43) Cowardice, negotiating identity
(54:29) Increasing bravery through exposure
(1:00:30) How to activate new genes
(1:02:05) Facing death, embalming
(1:07:03) Why so few speak in the face of tyranny
(1:11:31) Admiration is rooted in the religious instinct
(1:16:16) Some hope for the next generation
(1:17:33) Two ways to use language
(1:21:10) When you partake in falsehood
(1:23:32) Play and the orientation toward truth
(1:25:58) The tension of opposites, opportunity and purpose
(1:29:19) Vision, writing out your potential
(1:33:24) Bari Weiss, a different kind of column
(1:36:33) Tatiana Gnedich
(1:41:15) Furnish your mental furniture well
(1:43:33) There is no better pathway forward

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