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Part One: We Watch More of Jordan Peterson's New Show

Behind the Bastards

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Jordan Peterson - Is Everything the Best It Could Be?

Jordan Peterson likes to use this argument because he has this kind of panglossian belief that everything is the best that it could be and is getting better. He says masculine capitalist wealth seeking is altruism, right? That's why he finds this useful. So not only are we not governed by the satanic expression of power dooming us to a kind of authoritarian hell, what we're properly governed by something like the spirit of voluntary play.

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