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280. Critical Racists | Christopher Rufo

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Primatology of the Elders

In many tribal and agricultural societies, there's this proclivity for governance to devolve towards so-called elders. And they're often male, but not always because the wise females can play a role too. So we could say that there's no evidence whatsoever on the scientific or anthropological front that the doctrine that the prime human motivation for the construction of social relations is power. The actual reason why these egalitarian states never work isn't because of the doctrine, but because of reaction from those who are putting forward traditional liberal and conservative views.

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