My Message to Millenials: How to Change the World --

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"Young people want, rightly, to change the world. But how might this be properly done? Dr. Jonathan Haidt recently contrasted Truth University with Social Justice University. Social Justice U has as its advantage the call to social transformation. In this video, I outline why Truth is the proper route to societal improvement -- and why that starts with the individual."

https://www.youtube.com/user/JordanPetersonVideos

I am not here to change the world, but if you are young enough, you might be...

P.S.
Look for the video called: "My message to millenials"...

Funny you'd post a JP lecture. I just had this on my recommended - I think it's from one of his bible lectures but still, excellent 12 minute summary of his views on big totalitarian state, 'too big to fail', etc..

Millenials will "pass the buck" (evade responsibility) like every other generation.

Already, millions seek to get out of their student debt, cause they say it's someone else's fault.

When I listened to him on youtube the first time I was worried he was into religion...
Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe he is agnostic or atheist (based on a cursory Google...) and only studies the mechanism of religion.

Regardless, any philosophy or individual can tap into the tree of knowledge/truth...<shrug>

A good synopsis of his beliefs on religion has been something like a bulletin board for pinning abstract but important ideas that the leaders of that culture considered it critical for people to remember. They're truths that are difficult to deliver the full value of in words because they deal with our subconscious gears a lot. One of the things that really helped me hit the ground running with Jordan is that I'd already listened to most of the available Manly P Hall lectures - MPH dove into more details on astrotheology (ie. the old religion of the starts as well as it's representations in modern religion like the mazaloth/zodiac, seventy-two governors, and seven Elohim) as well as summing up similar chains of value within the frameworks of Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, and other Hellenistic Greco-Egyptian streams of thought.

As far as what Peterson actually believes - I listened to his 2016 Maps of Meaning and I think I was able to take away a lot of the nuance. On one hand I don't see any evidence that he literally believes in the beings of the Abrahamic deity, the Christian trinity, or what have you but he did a lot of description of hierarchies and information flowing both up and down them where I definitely get the impression that he's not a reductive materialist when it comes to consciousness. I think he's close to where I've been going, ie. radical functionalism of the type that attributes consciousness to dynamic systems, whether of individual cells talking to brains and vice versa or as individual creatures or people interacting with their culture at large and vice versa.

I think JP's real importance is that he's making something accessible to the broader public that needs to be, ie. we've been taught consistently through education that we're all logical beings when we're not, or we're sold political ideas on the grounds that we're reasonable when that reasonableness really depends on a lot of what's going on in our subconscious minds, what can disturb our emotions, trip our more basal needs, and quite often we can't see those bridges until we get to them. While it can seem a bit corny I do like his analogies to Lion King, Pinocchio, etc. because they're great examples of how archetypal and subconscious stories, the ones that have a much deeper grip on us than facts, have a particular kind of structure. On a different note I think that's also part of why David Lynch was so successful with his tv shows and movies - he took a similar route.

Another lecture I was listening to today. I will give a spoiler alert though - the title is crap and the topic is mostly Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gulag Archipelago: