Aushvitz: You can maintain a very high level of plausible ignorance by turning a blind eye. And the way you don't do it is to take refuge in your blind conformity, and that's part of that pluralistic ignorance. But how much could have people known if they would have allowed themselves to investigate, instead of refusing it? Aushvitz: Even if that entire explanatory story is correct, it misses the moral culpability element,. which is, ya, ok, just how much could have you known? I understand why people are blind to the horrors of malevolence, let's say, because malevolence, when confronted, is dramatizing. It's
Join Michael Shermer and Jordan Peterson (bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life) for this extraordinary conversation based on Peterson’s new book Beyond Order. After working for decades as a clinical psychologist and a professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto, Peterson has become one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals. His YouTube videos and podcasts have gathered a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions, and his global book tour reached more than 250,000 people in major cities across the globe. What is it that gives Peterson’s message such mass appeal?