Jordan B Peterson

2017 Personality 13: Existentialism via Solzhenitsyn and the Gulag

772,410 views Mar 11, 2017

In this lecture, I explore the dreadful socio-political consequences of the individual inauthentic life: the degeneration of society into nihilism or totalitarianism, often of the most murderous sort, employing as an example the work/death camps of the Soviet Union. Buy The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It is arguably the most important book of the twentieth century.

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Glen1 year ago

"A Marxist system is recognized by the fact that it spares the criminals and criminalizes political opponents." Solzhenitsyn

amr mousa1 year ago

This really scared the shit out of me, I’ve been listening to Dr. Peterson for a while now, and hearing all about our inner daemon, but I couldn’t really see mine, today I’ve realized that I have an inner tyrant who wants to fix it all, and screw over those huge banks, weapons companies, food companies,.... that have ruined so many peoples lives, to fight the rich who write the rules in their favors, I guess what I’m getting to now is, I’m gonna stop thinking I have the answer and that I can fix it all, and just focus on my surroundings and more importantly on myself, and hope I can have a positive impact around me, and who knows how big of an impact I can be. Thank you Professor Peterson, truly!