Is There a Hedonistic Attitude to Life?

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Hitler had grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Hitler has said to them, i offer you struggles for danger and death. And so we need this adventure and that's that something we're going to all have to contend with. If we don't get it right, then we'll get it wrong, and it'll lead us in terrible places.

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?