We have heard the phrase, "history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme," often recently. China has re-education camps based on racial identity. Soviet camps punished people based on political thought crimes, class identity, and ethnic Identity. The Gulag Archipelago is perhaps the most important book of the 20th Century. In this video, Jordan Peterson spends an hour and a half discussing it. Listen to it at 1.5x and it may be the most empowering hour you spend this weekend. We are in dangerous times. We have seen the atrocities that normal people can commit when under the spell of a toxic ideology. Preparation includes understanding what we are up against.
That was something.
My mom had me read the gulag archipelgo as a young person, no wonder I think the way I do, I've read much to support what this guy said the lecture.
Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.
What is striking is the massive amounts of evil that can be accomplished by seemingly normal people, who have friends and families and are educated, but somehow can suppress their conscience and convince themselves that some Utopian end justifies the means. I listen to some of the young progressives these days ... they are ready to open camps as soon as they can. Collective guilt is assumed. It's scary.
Mental illness is contagious.
When living in a world of lies, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Who knew this is what would happen when I got out of high skool,...
And gay frogs.
George Lucas could have told you that. When making Star Wars, George would say his movies rhymes. World history repeats and rhymes. There are patterns. Ultimately, the future can repeat if we let it. We want to repeat the good parts and not the bad parts.