Interview · moment 24 of 26
Loathing Groups, Being Gay and Rejecting the Gay Movement, and Addiction's Link to Honesty
from #249 - Jordan Peterson | The Tim Dillon Show · #249
4 min
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Tim explains his aversion to group identity, criticizes the gay rights movement and giving hormones to children, and connects his sobriety to an inability to tolerate resentment, prompting Peterson to link this to the danger of violating one's inbuilt moral sense.
- Tim expresses a natural aversion to group think and how he can get caught up in it like any human being.
- Being gay himself, Tim finds the gay movement completely insane and rejects what they represent, citing opposition to giving hormones to questioning children.
- Tim refuses to spend his time convincing people he's worthwhile or making them conform to his belief system.
- As an addict, Tim can't entertain other people's ideas of him too much because those ideas become resentments that lead back to addiction.
- Resentments built from deviating from one's inbuilt ethics become so catastrophic that addiction becomes necessary to insensate existence.
- Nearly universal agreement exists that teaching children to lie is wrong, establishing broad respect for honesty as a foundational value.
- Society tolerates dishonesty through television, politics, and culture, conditioning people to expect deceit from most entertainment and information.
- Tim's dramatic success comes from people being able to tell he actually believes what he says, contrasting sharply with staged American culture.
- Many people fear saying publicly what they've already said privately, and this self-censorship extends across academia and business.
- While ideal honesty would be better, culture has conditioned people to expect far less truthfulness than they should tolerate.