
155: Jordan Peterson and Jocko VS Evil. Cannibal Island. The Gulag.
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"I don't always see myself as the person that goes and heroically storms the beaches and survives," he says. "When I read about that two sentences of that guy that gets shot, that gets killed, that gets blown up, I completely understand and relate to that person." In a great book called Ordinary Men, there's no attempt to make the perpetrators like some creatures that aren't human,like just pure psychopaths,. And in a situation like Nazi Germany and in the horrors of the communist states, there was no shortage of places for psychopaths to prevail. 'It's one of the greatest books written about what happened in the Second World War'
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