r/JordanPeterson

Would love to get your thoughts on this video, inspired by Nietzsche

TL;DR

I'm an old fan of Jordan's -- I really liked 12 Rules and watched a lot of his early lectures. First discovered him in 2016, when he was still relatively unknown. I've met him a couple of times and found him to be patient, generous, and a genuinely kind person.

I drifted away from him post-2020 when I observed his output on Twitter becoming more angry and less thoughtful. I've never been a fan of alternative medicine so couldn't get on board with Mikhaila's advocacy with the all-meat diet.

But hearing about these new issues, I looked up benzos and brain injury and found this YouTube video. It's a psychiatrist talking about BIND - (benzo induced neurological dysfunction.) The way the psychiatrist talks about the injury that these medications induce is horrific. I am surprised that they're even allowed to be prescribed at all.

That being said, I am not anti-psychiatry, or anti-psych med. I think SSRIs help a lot of people. And I don't think benzos and SSRIs should be conflated, as they are very different classes of drugs.

But the video did make me more sympathetic to Jordan's plight. He really has suffered profoundly from using this medication, and a lot of it really has been outside of his control.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maxwell-sends-mystery-usb-to-doj-days-after-melania-bombshell/

I have a problem with the "burden of proof" argument about the existence of God. Ultimate reality is contained in God. And what is contained in God is every posibility and non-posibility at once. Order is pure potencial out of chaos, and runs on energy. It's quantum mechanics. Semantics are making things difficult. Woman or man are as hard to define in public talk as what it means to be Christian. So can we define what God is for it to be proven?

Thus understood, Fascism is totalitarian, and the Fascist State — a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values — interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people. Fascism is therefore opposed to Socialism to which unity within the State (which amalgamates classes into a single economic and ethical reality) is unknown, and which sees in history nothing but the class struggle…….

Fascism does not, generally speaking, believe in the possibility or utility of perpetual peace. It therefore discards pacifism as a cloak for cowardly supine renunciation in contradistinction to self-sacrifice. War alone keys up all human energies to their maximum tension and sets the seal of nobility on those peoples who have the courage to face it. All other tests are substitutes which never place a man face to face with himself before the alternative of life or death. Therefore all doctrines which postulate peace at all costs are incompatible with Fascism.

Equally foreign to the spirit of Fascism, even if accepted as useful in meeting special political situations — are all internationalistic or League superstructures which, as history shows, crumble to the ground whenever the heart of nations is deeply stirred by sentimental, idealistic or practical considerations

Fascism will have nothing to do with universal embraces; as a member of the community of nations it looks other peoples straight in the eyes; it is vigilant and on its guard; and it does not allow itself to be deceived by mutable and fallacious appearances…..

Such a conception of life makes Fascism the resolute negation of the doctrine underlying so- called scientific and Marxian socialism

Fascism also denies the immutable and irreparable character of the class struggle which is the natural outcome of this economic conception of history; above all it denies that the class struggle is the preponderating agent in social transformations. Having thus struck a blow at socialism in the two main points of its doctrine, all that remains of it is the sentimental aspiration-old as humanity itself-toward social relations in which the sufferings and sorrows of the humbler folk will be alleviated.

Fascism rejects the economic interpretation of felicity as something to be secured socialistically, almost automatically, at a given stage of economic evolution when all will be assured a maximum of material comfort….

After socialism, Fascism trains its guns on the whole block of democratic ideologies* and rejects both their premises and their practical applications and implements.

Fascism denies that numbers, as such, can be the determining factor in human society; it denies the right of numbers to govern by means of periodical consultations; it asserts the irremediable and fertile and beneficent inequality of men who cannot be leveled by any such mechanical and extrinsic device as universal suffrage.

Fascism has outgrown the dilemma: monarchy v. republic, over which democratic regimes too long dallied, whereas experience teaches that some republics are inherently reactionary and absolutist while some monarchies accept the most daring political and social experiments.

Neither has the Fascist conception of authority anything in common with that of a police ridden State.

But if democracy be understood as meaning a regime in which the masses are not driven back to the margin of the State

the writer of these pages has already defined Fascism as an organized, centralized, authoritarian democracy.

We are free to believe that this is the century of authority, a century tending to the “right,” a Fascist century.

Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism

It is quite logical for a new doctrine to make use of the still vital elements of other doctrines. No doctrine was ever born quite new and bright and unheard of. No doctrine can boast absolute originality. It is always connected, it only historically, with those which preceded it and those which will follow it.

The Fascist State is not a night watchman, solicitous only of the personal safety of the citizens; not is it organized exclusively for the purpose of guarantying a certain degree of material prosperity and relatively peaceful conditions of life, a board of directors would do as much.

The State, as conceived and realized by Fascism, is a spiritual and ethical entity for securing the political, juridical, and economic organization of the nation, an organization which in its origin and growth is a manifestation of the spirit.

The State guarantees the internal and external safety of the country, but it also safeguards and transmits the spirit of the people, elaborated down the ages in its language, its customs, its faith.

Fascism desires the State to be strong and organic, based on broad foundations of popular support.

The Fascist State lays claim to rule in the economic field no less than in others; it makes its action felt throughout the length and breadth of the country by means of its corporative, social, and educational institutions, and all the political, economic, and spiritual forces of the nation, organized in their respective associations, circulate within the State.

A State based on millions of individuals who recognize its authority, feel its action, and are ready to serve its ends is not the tyrannical state of a mediaeval lordling. It has nothing in common with the despotic States existing prior to or subsequent to 1789.

Far from crushing the individual, the Fascist State multiplies his energies, just as in a regiment a soldier is not diminished but multiplied by the number of his fellow soldiers.

The Fascist State organizes the nation, but it leaves the individual adequate elbow room. It has curtailed useless or harmful liberties while preserving those which are essential. In such matters the individual cannot be the judge, but the State only.

The State has not got a theology but it has a moral code. The Fascist State sees in religion one of the deepest of spiritual manifestations and for this reason it not only respects religion but defends and protects it.

-The Doctrine of Fascism (1932) Benito Mussolini

I am sad to hear about this. He is a highly intelligent man and i do feel for his family. Losing both your parents months apart, and then dealing with all of this , just terrible.

I hope he recovers but i also hope he does not do a lot of travel and full schedule work. When he recovers, i hope he does the ocassional once a month show on his you tube channel but otherwise, i hope he semi-retires. He is only early 60's and i hope he lives for decades.

I am no expert on psych meds but i have always been somewhat skeptical of how eager doctors are to over prescribe drugs. I hope, going forward, that these drugs are prescribed more carefully and hopefully much less often.

Both lead me to love, but by different ways at the start; the first impressions of mine with them is like one is masculine (LSD) and one is feminine (Shrooms).

With shrooms, I would like to receive them and become sociable with everyone in a way that accepts all their things; my friends and family tell me something, and I accept it at any cost: "We should be everything, whatever, man. Love you," and have a gentle feeling; it was so earthly.
Very lively, I feel like everything has its own life; I saw dead folks talking with me through photos and my mind.

Having sexual thoughts with shrooms is like being with the sex, loving that sex, and accepting that sex.

Having a suicidal thought with shrooms, it's about to fall in love.

The view on life with shrooms (for me at that time) is like "live this life, be with us."

With LSD, I would like to do that love; I would like to provide it; I would like to come out there and give money to everyone I see. When my niece and her boyfriend got home, I also gave them something to drink (the thing that in a normal state I would never do), but it was so material, with an unpleasant feeling. I don't even see folks talking with me in my mind, just images with every state of emotions. Looking into photos, they're just mere material, and I'm nothings in this jumble of images.

Having sexual thoughts with LSD is like feeling sex, experiencing it, and then killing them and ourselves to get back into nothing (it's my own thought, maybe because both of my masculine and feminine is a bit immature).

Having a suicidal thought with LSD is like "Bloody hell, I got some problems with my own life; let's jump out of the window and start a new one (if there be something like that)."

The view on life with shrooms (for me at that time) is like "Ah, this life has a lot of pain; I just want to find some pagoda and be a monk till the end of my life to temporarily forget all the negative things."

I don't know if there are studies on psychedelic experiences like this yet, but in my own thoughts, it's very subjective in a way that our brain tries to fill in the gaps of reality with our own memory bank, but it's still meaningful to me psychologically, so I want to know your thoughts on the differences between LSD and shrooms, and if anyone ever tried to combine both, what was your experience like?