Name: Q & A 2017 06 June
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T10:50:17.000Z
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So a couple of you who are out there, maybe you could just send me a quick text and tell me if this is working.

Can you share your thoughts and why it hasn't worked?

I want to talk to you first about Patriot.

And then I'm going to take some questions that people have said.

I've got this new thing called, uh, pigeonhole, and that's enabled people to vote up questions.

And then I'm also going to take some of the questions that are on.

Consider the overwhelming success of the patron account of the money raised by rebel.

What will you be doing with the contributions?

All right, so I'm going a couple of things to say about that.

So the 1st 1 is, you know, I would say a number of people have bean attempt and not an overwhelming number, but a number of people have been attempting to take me to task for the fact that my patron support has Bean.

And so I'll tell you how I formulate my response to that.

The first is I'm generating almost all of my contact and making it completely publicly accessible.

And so that way I'm bringing, I think, awareness of psychological issues to a very large number of people.

And so far, at the moment, my view count on YouTube is up to 13 million.

And I did a little bit of calculations last week to try to figure out what the total view count was, Um, for for the cuts of my lectures that have bean appearing on YouTube and then the political material as well.

And so I'm making psychological and political content available to 50 million people and so you know, that seems like a reasonable thing to do now.

People who don't agree with what I'm saying my differ, but I think that could be separated from the educational content as well.

So and then with regards to the Patriot on subscribers, every single person who's doing that is doing it entirely voluntarily.

And I also set up that Patriot account long before any of this political material emerged.

So and my sense with the Patriot on viewers and you guys conclude me and if I'm wrong about this, is that there's two things happening, as one is.

It enables people who are not very happy about the current political situation in the West to to to contribute to something that might be, at least to some degree, attempting to stem the tide of such things as toxic political correctness.

And second, that it enables people to support my endeavors to bring general education to a wider audience.

And that seems like a good deal for everyone.

And, you know, you might say, Well, it's a particularly good deal for me, and I'm certainly not complaining about what's happening.

But I would also point out that it doesn't exactly being a straightforward thing.

And so, um, so I guess if anyone else wants to try it, they're more than welcome to now.

Having said that, um, I would also say that the real issue here and I think this is the fact that this isn't self evident is also a commentary on the toxicity of our culture at the moment is that it actually isn't the issue.

The issue isn't really how much money you have.

I think that that's a resentful and relatively vicious way of judging someone else.

I think the issue is what you do with the money when you have it.

And, you know, um, I'm not a particularly hedonistic person and I'm not 25 years old, You know, I'm 55 years old and I'm going to be a grandfather in a couple of months.

And what I want to do with that money is to do the best things I can possibly think of to do with it.

And one of the things I'm thinking about.

I started this biblical Siri's and a lot of that's help thankful, thanks to you guys on Patri on, because that enabled me to generate the capital that was necessary to rent a theater because for 12 lectures, that was a $60,000 investment about that something like that and then another $8000 for the for the camera work, and that had to be basically dealt with upfront.

Now I've bean crazily fortunate in that theater tickets have also sold out.

So it looks like the biblical Siri's will pay for itself with some extra left over.

And so you know, I'm pretty happy about that because that gives me some more working capital.

And then you might say, Well, what am I going to do with the capital?

Well, I'm going to continue doing the sorts of things that I'm already doing.

I want to do a series on the 100 greatest books of the Western canon, for example.

I want to move genuine humanity's education out of the universities where it isn't being taught anyways, as far as I can tell online where people can access it freely.

I'm talking to a wide variety of people right now about trying to do that in a more formal sense, so that the possibility for widespread university education can be made universally accessible, and one of the things we're trying to crack is the problem of how to teach people to write, because that's a real troublesome thing.

If you go on to my website Jordan Peterson dot com, and you go into courses and you go into psychology for 30 if you look carefully there, you'll see that there's an essay rubric that teeth that tells people how to write.

And actually that's become quite popular.

And so, if you're interested in how to learn to write, I've written something about that already, and we're gonna make a piece of software that's gonna help people learn to write.

And so I've got plans for how to make writing education broadly accessible to people.

So I would like to make humanity's education of the highest order broadly accessible to people, and I also want to teach them how to write.

And I'm going to try to crack the online university accreditation problem.

And so part of the money that or a substantial proportion of the money that is being donated to me, let's say or is being offered to be by my monthly supporters, so that's all of you people is going to be going to projects exactly like that.

And the reason for that is that what the hell else would I do with the money?

It's not the means whereby you develop a luxurious lifestyle and spend your time burning yourself.

Have to death in the sun in the Caribbean, snorting cocaine and chasing hookers.

You know, it's just that's just not in the cards for me, and and so I wanted to vote it towards the sorts of things that have already been pursuing except on a broader scale.

And so, you know, when I think of people like Elon Musk, too, not that I'm comparing myself.

But I mean, he has plenty of money, and I mean, you really somebody's gonna have the damn money.

It might as well be people who have the kind of vision that people like he does have, because maybe they'll do something good for the world.

I mean, I hope is Giga factories produce batteries like mad so that we can, um, start to make alternative energy sources economically viable and maybe reduce our dependence on oil and maybe get ourselves out from underneath the thumb of the Saudi Arabs.

So the monetary issue, it's it's quite interesting.

It's like it is not that you have the money, it's what you do with it.

So anyways, those are some of my plants, and that isn't all of them, because I'm going to come up with a bunch more plans, and I'm going to try to implement them as rapidly as I possibly can.

I've put my clinical practice on hiatus for the next three months so that I have a chance to think, and I've requested that the university advanced my sabbatical by one year.

So I should have about a year to think about what I should be doing with YouTube and how I can be promoting broad scale public education of the highest quality.

And that's a really fun problem to solve.

And the fact that I'm being supported by all of you people on Patron makes the probability that veil to all be able to devote my time to that much higher.

So so that's what I'm going to deal with it.

I'm gonna do the best things I can possibly think of to do with it and, uh, hopefully that'll work.

So, um yeah, I mean, I've Bean taken aback quite a bit by the I mean, it's not surprising that, you know the people who have been trying to take me down, let's say, are squawking and bitching because I happen to be generating a fairly reasonable income from this.

Although I don't think about it as an income has already said, I think about it as a as a tool kit for pursuing more interesting things.

It's like if that's the best they could do with regards to continuing to tarnish my name, well, then let them let them go right ahead about that.

I think the proof is in the outcome and like the biblical Siri's, and that's a direct consequence of the Patriots support that seems to be going like mad.

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