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What to Do When Life Feels Empty
Jordan B Peterson·Jul 5, 2026
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Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp8 people
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- Centralization and Totalitarian Control5 people · 63%
- Social Conformity and Ideological…3 people · 37%
Centralization and Totalitarian Control
Totalitarianism involves the systematic centralization of power and the effort to exert total control over individuals' lives and thoughts.
5 people · 5 episodes
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Totalitarian regimes share the ambition to exert thoroughgoing, fanatical control over the hearts and minds of an entire population, regardless of their divergent ideological roots.
“what was new was not the alleged achievement of total control it was the ambition the articulation of the ambition that it might be possible to exercise such fundamental thoroughgoing control of entire populations”
Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2024 · 1 episode · 1.4M views on this topic
The public in North Korea is forced to live under strict and oppressive rules, including severe punishments for consuming South Korean entertainment.
“anyone found watching or possessing South Korean entertainment will be sentenced to 15 years in labor camps”
Stephanie Soo · Sep 2024 · 1 episode · 2.1M views on this topic
China is attempting to build a centralized technocratic dictatorship as an alternative to the liberal world system, but such systems historically fail.
“I think Kaiser Wilhelm II, I think uh Hitler, Tojo and Stalin all in their different ways had the same idea that the sort of technocratic dictatorship centralized power and planning could ch create an economy and a society that could challenge this Anglo-American hijgemony this call the liberal worl”
Jordan B Peterson · Jan 2023 · 1 episode · 848K views on this topicSocial Conformity and Ideological…
Societies become totalitarian when they suppress independent thought and force individuals to conform to ideological or political demands.
3 people · 3 episodes
A totalitarian state arises when every individual in a society lies to themselves and others about everything they think, say, and do.
“A totalitarian state is the state that exists when every single person in the society lies to themselves and everyone else including those they love about absolutely everything they think, say, and do.”
Jordan B Peterson · Jul 2026 · 14 episodes · 19.6M views on this topic
The requirement to force equality, whether based on class, race, or gender, is an inherently evil concept that inevitably leads to mass tyranny and death.
“the idea that you must force people to be equal is evil whether you're looking at it through the lens of class or race or sex or gender or whatever other [ __ ] people have come up with and the reason it's evil is not that it's not a good thing to redistribute wealth and income”
Triggernometry · Oct 2022 · 2 episodes · 1.2M views on this topic
Athanasius SchneiderUnrated
Modern Western societies are increasingly adopting methods characteristic of totalitarian Soviet systems, such as suppressing independent thought and using the label of conspiracy to intimidate oppone
“I can recognize especially now in our current time in the western world a growing increasing elements of a true dictatorship and not only dictatorship but totalitarian system and an intolerance by the name of Tolerance and freedom we are now living in the Western World to be oppressed”
Candace Owens · Oct 2024 · 1 episode · 666K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Complete months · first on record Nov 2018