📚 4 Books mentioned in "A Psychologist and Historian Discuss the End of the World | Dr. Niall Ferguson | EP 404" of The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

I should be clear: I haven't watched the movie, but I read the book American Prometheus.

Niall Ferguson expresses that he read the book 'American Prometheus', which explores the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer. He highlights his preference for reading books over watching their movie adaptations.

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The Book of Revelation, for example, are in part attempts to structure our apprehension of what you would call the eternal apocalypse and to also help us determine practically and politically how that might be at least staved off, although perhaps even managed more comprehensively.

Dr. Peterson discusses 'The Book of Revelation' as a key example that seeks to organize our understanding of the concept of the apocalypse and to aid in figuring out how we might prevent or manage it.

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So I was reviewing your book, 'Doom', this morning, and I've been wanting to talk to you about it for a long time.

In this episode, Dr. Peterson discusses his recent review of Niall Ferguson's book 'Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe'. He expresses his eagerness to engage in a conversation about it, marking the beginning of the dialogue with the guest.

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People like Dostoevsky outlined in the late 1800s: in 'Notes from Underground', Dostoevsky famously pointed out that if we did bring about the socialist utopia and he described that as the endless opportunity to sit in pools of bubbling water, busy ourselves with the continuation of the species and eat nothing but cake, that human beings would break it all into a chaotic mess at the first opportunity, just so that something exciting could happen.

Dr. Peterson discusses Dostoevsky's 'Notes from Underground' to highlight the notion that a utopian vision filled with endless satisfaction would ultimately be rejected by humans in favor of a chaotic and thrilling reality.

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