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338. The Epidemic That Dare Not Speak Its Name | Stephen J Shaw

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

CHAPTER

Why People Become Ugly?

I think we almost always ask questions backwards. Why people become useless? That's not a mystery. It's easy to be useless. The answer is why that doesn't happen to everyone all the time. And the answer is because we build up extremely careful structures of societal discipline, and when you allow those structures to collapse or work consciously to undermine them, then you get default to the default - it's short-term gratification.

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