Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2023-02-20
Books mentioned on 333. Konstantin Kisin and the Counter-Woke Revolution
Dr Jordan B Peterson and Konstantin Kisin discuss western privilege, the self, the nature of God and religion, the necessity of religion for morality, and how we must combat the death of truth with cohesive principles.
Jordan Peterson discussed The Population Bomb by Paul R. Ehrlich and Fossil Future by Alex Epstein.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Population Bomb
The Population Bomb is a 1968 book by biologist Paul R.
Discussed“So many people who are watching and listening might not be aware, but we there was plenty of doomsaying in the 1960s with regards to the population catastrophe and uh prognostications on the part of people like Paul Erlick most famously who wrote the population bomb that by the year 2000 we'd be out of all our primary resources and”
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Fossil Future
Fossil Future by Alex Epstein argues that fossil fuels are essential for human flourishing and that eliminating them prematurely would cause widespread societal collapse and death.
Discussed“But Epstein has pointed out in his new book um fossil fuel future. He laid out something I'd also investigated in my maps of meaning book. This underlying religious narrative and it's basically a Gaia narrative.”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I'm speaking today with Constantine Kissen who's a Russian British satist, social commentator, author, and podcast host, Trigonometry. He has written for publications such as Qulet and the Daily Telegraph, and his book, An immigrants Love Letter to the West, is a Sunday Times bestseller.”
“He has written for publications such as Colette and The Daily Telegraph, and his book, 'An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West', is a Sunday Times bestseller.”
Own book Maps of Meaning
“He laid out something I'd also investigated in my maps of meaning book. This underlying religious narrative and it's basically a Gaia narrative.”
Own book Maps of Meaning
“Epstein has pointed out in his new book, 'Fossil Future', something I’d also investigated in my 'Maps of Meaning' book: this underlying religious narrative is basically a Gaia narrative.”
Ad read The imitation of Christ
“Dive deep into scripture and the second most read Christian book of all time, The Imitation of Christ.”
Ad read The imitation of Christ
“Dive deep into scripture and the second most-read Christian book of all time, The Imitation of Christ.”
Own book We Who Wrestle with God
“So, I've been working on this idea in my new book. Um, it's called We Who Wrestle with God. And I've been basing this work on the proposition that there has to be a unifying animating spirit.”
Own book We Who Wrestle with God
“I've been working on this idea in my new book; it's called 'We Who Wrestle with God.'”