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376. Truth and Adventure as an Antidote to Suffering | Douglas Murray

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Importance of Gratitude

I don't think that people generally presume that a sentiment or state of mind like gratitude is something that descends upon you rather than something that you acquire through effort. You do have to work at it. And the reason why is that there's this massive context collapse whereby we assume that the state that we are in is the natural state of mankind. The conservatives and I would say the wiser people tend to be more influenced, you might say, by Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

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