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“Don't say 'knickers' in front of your father. He can't cope.”
— Ma Mary Quinn, Derry Girls, Series 1: Episode 1
Tagged: knickers, father, Cope
“First of all, they said playing a clip of Jordan Peterson was like playing a clip of Hitler or Milo Yiannopoulos. I thought, 'well, let’s go a little easy on the Hitler comparisons, there, guys. You might want to save that for when it’s really necessary, because you don’t use…' It’s sacrilegious to use an insult like that, except in situations where it’s justified. It’s not appropriate to use a catastrophe like that casually, especially when you’re doing it under the guise of moral virtue. There’s no excuse for it.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley: Animator Extraordinaire
Tagged: Adolf Hitler, Milo Yiannapoulos, Sacrilege
“I was a smart kid, and my head was full of ideas that I hadn’t earned. I could lay them out, but that doesn’t mean that they were mine or me.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley: Animator Extraordinaire
Tagged: Self-awareness, Ideas
“I started to understand that many of the things I was saying weren’t true. I didn't really believe them; they weren't really my thoughts; they made me feel weak, when I said them.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley: Animator Extraordinaire
Tagged: Self-awareness, Conformity, Self-Deception
“The political is a tiny fraction of the world, and what I’m doing isn’t political: it’s psychological, or philosophical, or theological. The political element is peripheral.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley: Animator Extraordinaire
Tagged: Politics, Philosophy, Psychology
“People like to imagine that they would be Schindler in Schindler’s List, but that’s wrong. The probability that you’ll be the perpetrator is much higher, especially merely the perpetrator that’s ensconced in silence, when silence is not the appropriate thing.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley: Animator Extraordinaire
Tagged: Schindler's List, Conformity
“I was interested in the great atrocities of the 20th century: the ones that were committed on the right and the ones that were committed on the left. But I was interested in it psychologically. What that means was, had I been there, what could have I done to not participate? So that’s what I’ve been trying to figure out; because, for me, what happened in Nazi Germany, and what happened in the Gulag Archipelago, and in Maoist China—many places—was a sufficient definition of 'hell'—convincing, as well.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley: Animator Extraordinaire
Tagged: Atrocities, Holocaust, Holodomor, Nazi Germany, Gulag Archipelago, Maoist China, Hell
“…the narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think we’re stupider than we are. People have a real hunger for deep intellectual dialog, and that can be met with these new technologies. That has revolutionary significance, and that’s starting to unfold.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley: Animator Extraordinaire
Tagged: TV, Dumbing Down, Intellectual
“The problem with books and videos is that you can’t do anything else while you’re doing them, right? When you’re reading, you’re reading. When you’re watching a video, you can be distracted, but you have to pay attention to the video. But, if you’re listening to a podcast, you can be driving a forklift or a long haul trunk, or you can be exercising or doing the dishes. And so what that means is that podcasts free up, say, two hours a day, for people to engage in education activities that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to engage in, and that’s about one-eighth of people’s lives.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley: Animator Extraordinaire
Tagged: Podcast, Books, Videos, Media
“thought, 'well, what am I supposed to do, now that I hit a million views? How am I supposed to conceptualize that? What is this YouTube thing anyways, that was once a repository for cute cat videos? What does it mean to have a million views on it?' So I really started to think about it, because there were a lot of people commentating, as well, and they were into the lectures and following them avidly. I thought, 'OK, so what is this YouTube, exactly?' I thought, 'well, for the first time in human history, the spoken word has the same reach as the written word. And not only that: no lagged publication and no barrier to entry.' That’s a major technological revolution. That’s a Gutenberg revolution. That’s a big deal. This is a game changer. It was soon after that that I discovered the podcast world, which is about 10 times as big as the YouTube world. The podcast world is also a Gutenberg revolution, except it’s even more extensive.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Nina Paley: Animator Extraordinaire
Tagged: Youtube, Podcast, Gutenberg
“It’s a catastrophe. It means that we learn half the lesson. We sort of learned half the lesson of the 20th century, right? And thank God we sort of learned half the lesson. But the other half has not been learned, and that’s not acceptable, not in the least. The data in the United States indicates that 1 out of 5 social science professors are self-proclaimed Marxists. It’s like, 'you’re a Marxist? Really? Seriously, you’re a Marxist?' It’s like, 'yeah, and not only am I a Marxist, it’s one of the things that makes me morally virtuous.' 'Well, what about the 20th century?' 'Well, that wasn’t real communism.'”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson
Tagged: World War II, Communism, Marxist
“The intellectuals, roughly speaking, have been complicit in failure to define the excesses of the left.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson
Tagged: Intellectuals, Intelligentsia, Leftist Extremism
“We’re producing a cognitive hierarchy, and, increasingly, the spoils of the hierarchy are going to people who are in the cognitive stratosphere, so to speak. It’s one thing to be really smart. It gives you an edge in a complex society, especially one that’s changing very rapidly, like ours. But if you’re really smart, and you know how to use a computer? You are so far ahead of people that it’s like you’re a member of a different species. If you don’t think that’s going to be the fundamental problem of the coming age, let’s say, then you’re not very awake.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson
Tagged: IQ, Cognitive Elite, Cognitive Hierarchy
“There is no phenomena in social sciences, period, that is on firmer statistical and conceptual footing than IQ. There’s no phenomena that’s more robust. If you give people a set of tests that assess abstraction, and then you measure their average score on the set of tests of abstraction, and then you rank order them, you have an IQ measured.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson
Tagged: IQ, IQ and Race, The Bell Curve, problematic
“The problem with IQ tests is that they do produce group differences, and that’s unbelievably complicated and horrible. It’s complicated because it isn’t obvious how you should group people, if you’re going to do group analysis of IQ. For example, there’s more genetic diversity among Africans than there is among all the other human populations. So exactly how you put people in the bin of black, caucasian, and asian, let’s say—which are generally regarded as the three major racial groups—is far from obvious. That’s a basic scientific conundrum that’s right at the bottom of the IQ problem. But if you use the typical groupings, you do get ethnic differences. That starts to become extremely problematic, because the question, then, is 'why?' The answer to that is, 'we don’t know.'”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson
Tagged: IQ, IQ and Race, The Bell Curve, problematic
“Well, I think it’s very easy for people, who don’t want to evaluate their own beliefs, to assume that everything the other side is saying is a consequence of their personal moral failings, and their ignorance, and their malevolence, basically. It’s not helpful. I particularly think it’s unhelpful in the United States, because it isn’t obvious to me that the underlying dynamic has really changed that much, given that it’s been 50-50 for 20 years, and it was 50-50 in the last election.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson
Tagged: accountability, Responsibilities, Left/Right
“I don’t know. The thing is, there’s a lot of noise in the press, especially as you move towards the radical left, about the alt-right. But I have a hard time putting my finger on who, exactly, these alt-right people are. If you look at the radical left, it’s obvious that they have a stranglehold, I would say, on the universities, and especially the humanities and social sciences. One of the consequences of that is that the doctrine that those entities have been producing is spilling over into society, to a large degree. There’s a lot of noise about the alt-right, but I can’t figure out who the alt-right people are.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson
Tagged: Alt-Right, Radical Left
“I think we have been able to box in the more unfortunate elements of the right. That’s probably a consequence, mostly, of moral deliberations undertaken after World War II. We seem to have come to a pretty general consensus, I would say, that claims of ethnic or racial superiority place you outside the realm of acceptable political discourse. That’s the cliff place, where dialog inevitably degenerates into conflict. I think the classic errors of the right are to fail to attend sufficiently to the tendency for hierarchies to degenerate into corruption, because of willful blindness and rigidity—and, of course, that’s something that the left takes the right to task for, generally speaking. So there’s the hard line, which is ethnic identity as a mark of superiority, and then there’s a looser line, where there’s also error. I think the right errs in the same way that the left does, when they play identity politics.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Douglas Murray in conversation with Jordan Peterson
Tagged: World War II, Philosphy, Identity Politics
“People have, like, three—well, there are four fundamental fears. One is fear of their own inadequacy and malevolence. Now, that’s a big fear, man. That can really, that can really do you in if you confront it accidentally and fully. Happens to soldiers sometimes in battle when they find themselves doing things they can’t believe they’d do, and then, we’re afraid of society. That would be the oppressive patriarchy, because society judges us harshly and mercilessly in many ways, and we don’t like to plummet in the—what would you call it?—we don’t like to see our reputations savaged in front of the groups that we identify with. It’s extraordinarily hard on us emotionally for that to happen, which I wrote about, for example, in Rule 1, which is a chapter that details, in part, the fact that the neuro-chemical systems that track your status in competence hierarchies also regulate the balance between your positive and negative emotions such that if you suffer a social defeat, your proclivity to experience negative emotion radically increases and your proclivity to experience positive emotion radically decreases, and people seriously do not like that. No wonder, because who wants to be completely overwhelmed with sadness and bitterness and anxiety and resentment and disappointment and frustration and grief and then also devoid of happiness? That’s the verge definition of hell, and if a status defeat will increase that probability, then we will fight very hard to maintain our status positions, which we certainly do. That’s another fear, and of course we have the fear of nature, and we should, because, of course, nature, despite being the environment and this thing we should be striving to protect and maintain is also trying with all of its might constantly to make us ill and old and kill us and it is generally very successful at all three. And so there’s every reason to be afraid of nature. And, you know, one night alone in the bush will pretty much convince you of that. And then people are also afraid of the unknown, and so this is a big category—the terror that human beings face, and to be naked onstage is to face at least two or three of those simultaneously.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Auckland Clip 2: The Four Fundamental Fears
Tagged: Fundamental Fears, Fear, Anxiety
“A lagging summer at the box office produced a greater-than-usual share of spectacular duds, while also generating a few billion-busting hits.”
— James Hibberd, Entertainment Weekly, The 17 biggest summer box office winners and losers of 2019
Tagged: Summer, Movies, Billion Dollars, Money, Films
“But with so many new books released this year, how are you ever going to pick which one to read first? Thankfully, former President Barack Obama is here to help.”
— Sydney Bucksbaum , Entertainment Weekly, Barack Obama just revealed his summer reading list(and he's got impeccable taste) 
Tagged: Books, President Obama, Recommendations , Summer Reading
“Colbert doesn't want Trump back on his show 'for safety's sake'”
— CNN, Stephen Colbert doesn't want Trump back on his show 'for safety's sake'- CNN Video
Tagged: Colbert , Saftey, Discussion, show
“Little Maria here can’t get through the day without masturbating.”
— Roland Blum, The Good Fight, Season 3: The One Where Diane Joins the Resistance
Tagged: Day, Sex, masturbation
“Ok, strange baby, let’s go! Time to sell you on Ebay.”
— Lucca Quinn, The Good Fight, Season 3: The One with Lucca Becoming a Meme
Tagged: strange, Ebay , sell
“Trump wins because he sees life as a battle, not a cause, he uses your strength against you. Liberals never get that.”
— Roland Blum, The Good Fight, Season 3: The One Where Diane Joins the Resistance
Tagged: Battle, Cause, strength, Liberals
“That’s a fentanyl lollipop. Tomorrow morning, 9:30 a.m., just before court, I want you to suck enough dope out of it so you don’t look like a teacher’s aide at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow.”
— Roland Blum, The Good Fight, Season 3: The One Inspired by Roy Cohn
Tagged: lollipop, Fentanyl, Aide
“I’m happy.”
— Diane Lockhart, The Good Fight, Season 3: The One About the Recent Troubles
Tagged: Happy, Life, Perspective
“I am married to the footman to the king.”
— Diane Lockhart, The Good Fight, Season 3: The One About the Recent Troubles
Tagged: married, Footman, king
“I realized it’s alright that the world is crazy, as long as I make my little corner of the world sane.”
— Diane Lockhart, The Good Fight, Season 2: Day 471
Tagged: crazy, insane, Corner of the World, Sane
“We want to be ready to impeach President Trump.”
— Ruth Eastman, The Good Fight, Season 2: Day 450
Tagged: Impeach, Ready, Trump

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