It is in our individual capacity to confront the potential of the future and to transform it into the actuality of the present. The way we determine what it is that the world transforms into is a consequence of our ethical, conscious choices. We wake up in the morning and confront the day, with all its possibilities and terrors. We chart a course, making decisions for better or worse. We understand full well that we can do evil and bring terrible things into Being. But we also know that we can do good, if not great, things. We have the best chance of doing the latter if we act properly, as a consequence of being truthful, responsible, grateful, and humble.

The right attitude to the horror of existence— the alternative to resentment, deceit, and arrogance— is the assumption that there is enough of you, society, and the world to justify existence. That is faith in yourself, your fellow man, and the structure of existence itself: the belief that there is enough to you to contend with existence and transform your life into the best it could be. Perhaps you could live in a manner whose nobility, grandeur, and intrinsic meaning would be of sufficient import that you could tolerate the negative elements of existence without becoming so bitter as to transform everything around you into something resembling hell.

My latest Q&A is available on ThinkSpot now for those of you interested. You can watch it on their website by clicking the link below:

https://thinkspot.com/online_content/jordan-peterson/recorded-q-a-3/2ruW16/Event?category=event&live=yes&t=watch&m=r&re=y&recorded=y

My conversation with Rex Murphy is live on YouTube to watch in full. Here is an 11 minute clip from our conversation that was posted on my clips channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9glo5Io_HOQ

- Rex Murphy.

A quote taken from my recent podcast with Rex, talking about wokeness and how universities are changing.

"The Poetic Lift of the Conscious Mind".

Another clip from my podcast with Rex Murphy.

My latest Q&A which was recorded a few days ago is now available to watch on YouTube. This is my third of 2021. Watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY9X6a-xxFo&t=2s

A clip from my podcast appearance on Modern Wisdom with Chris Williamson.

Yoy can watch it in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJg9wd8agQY&t=15s

Another short unreleased excerpt from Beyond Order was released on Thinkspot recently.

"Community and Sanity".

Read here:
https://www.thinkspot.com/discourse/WGukVb/post/jordan-peterson/beyond-order-bonus-essays-on-community-and-sanity/b6mtwx

"It’s ironically a contradiction with where I come from where we have a powerful group, or more powerful than other groups. Lebanon has issues, but people still express their opinions there despite stories, extreme stories, of killing here and there. They can teach freely, they can criticize freely, and I do criticize things there. I’ve never imagined in my whole life that my problems would be from Canada, and not coming from where I come from."

My most recent podcast was released today with Dr Rima Azar. Dr. Rima Azar and I sit down to discuss the importance of free speech and what happened with the recent controversy surrounding her blog and has led to her suspension at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Watch our conversation here: https://youtu.be/cIw8mH7ZpFY
Listen to it here: https://direct.me/jordanpeterson

I am now taking questions for my next Q&A to be released on Thinkspot and YouTube. If you have a question you'd like to potentially be answered, please click the link below, and submit it via Thinkspot. Please submit your question by tomorrow night 11:59pm EST.

https://www.thinkspot.com/online_content/jordan-peterson/recorded-q-a-4-please-submit-questions-by-june-8th-at-11-59et/KVuVWN/Event?live=yes&t=watch&re=y

Here is another clip from my podcast with Dr. Rima Azar where we talk about the students who went after her.

I’ve dealt with ethics boards at my own university, and they have a policy that every complaint should be investigated thoroughly. I’m not very fond of that policy particularly, because there are a lot of people who cause a fair bit of trouble for absolutely no reason. It seems to me that complaints need to pass something approximating a reasonable threshold before they’re dealt with seriously.

Watch our talk in full here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIw8mH7ZpFY&t=765s

"Which is more frightening? Action or inaction?"

Another clip from Chris Williamson's podcast - Modern Wisdom.

You can listen to it here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/modern-wisdom/id1347973549

Sacrifice.

The Growth of Political Homelessness.

My latest podcast released today was with Bari Weiss. Bari Weiss is a journalist and author. She has worked as an opinion writer and editor at the New York Times, before that she was an OP editor and book reviewer at the Wallstreet Journal, and a senior editor at tablet magazine. Bari now writes for herself on SubStack.

Bari Weiss and I discuss her career, the circumstances surrounding her resignation from the New York Times, the aftermath of her famous resignation letter which criticized the New York Times, Twitter and social media, the phrase “Systemic Racism”, the work she is doing now, and more.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTA9MJZ4KY

Listen here: https://direct.me/jordanpeterson

"I want to be clear: I didn’t go into the New York Times naive. I read the paper for years. I saw what’s obviously its liberal bias, but I felt fundamentally like the paper was still trying to adhere to what it claims to be all about in its mission statement: pursuing the truth even when it’s hard. The famous ad that the times has, “The truth is hard.”

To watch this full episode click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTA9MJZ4KY&t=108s

Or, listen here: https://direct.me/me

My discussion with Triggernometry, followed by a Q&A will be live in 10mins.

Click here to join us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKL8slQzX2w

Another clip from my most recent podcast with Bari Weiss.

The podcast is now available on Apple, Spotify, Google, and YouTube.

Watch or listen here: https://direct.me/jordanpeterson

"Everything was driving toward the political view of the professor that was teaching the course, whereas, I’m thinking about an intellectual history class I took, I didn’t really know what my professor thought."

Bari Weiss shares her idea of what separates propaganda and education.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFTA9MJZ4KY&t=108s

A new animation video made by Afterskool, "Best Lessons Learned from Jordan B. Peterson", has just been posted to my YouTube channel.

You can watch it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJrEaLYacwc

I asked Bari, "What is it supposed to be about at its best as far as you’re concerned? What did it do for you?" (Columbia University).

"Teaching me how to think, think critically, read a text, and at the deepest moments, have it transform me rather than what I encountered, for example, in the Middle East Studies Department, which was more like hearing a preacher. It was more just propaganda."

Listen here: https://direct.me/jordanpeterson