The Patriarchy

Psychologists, Jordan Peterson speaks and writes about personal responsibility.

Young men, especially, respond to that. But progressives hate him. They say his ideas hurt

weaker people. I ask him about that. Men run most of society. They're defending women.

Trans people are often horribly punished, discriminated against.

Yeah, well, there's no doubt. There's no doubt that you need someone to speak up for the

dispossessed, but that doesn't mean you get to play identity politics.

And identity politics just invites a division into tribalism on the right and the left.

Because the right plays identity politics, too. You know, I would say more in reaction,

but it's not a good game. It's not a game that anyone will ever win. It's a game you play if you

want everyone to lose. What's the harm? They're saying they're saying, shut up. You man

dominate everything anyway. And you're just making it worse, worse for weak people.

The idea that men tyrannically dominated everything is a pretty damn weak argument.

It's like you look around, I'm always amazed, coming to a place like New York City,

New York's an absolute miracle. It's impossible this place. How many people come here a day?

Seven million? It's fundamentally peaceful. Everything works. It's rich beyond belief.

Everyone is doing better here than anybody has ever done on the face of the planet

throughout recorded history. And the whole West is like that. And to call that all a tyrannical

patriarchy is indicative of a very deep resentment and a historical ignorance that's so profound

that it's indistinguishable from willful blindness. So look, every society has its tyrannical aspect

and nothing is perfect, but we do not so bad in the West. In fact, you know, we do better than

any place has ever done. And not only that, the principles that govern the West and the capitalist

principles, the free market principles, the idea of individual sovereignty above all else

has distributed itself across the world quite effectively and everyone is getting richer.

Everyone. From 2000, the year 2000 to the year 2012, the rate of absolute poverty in the world

fell by 50%. It's like that's pretty good for a patriarchal tyranny. That was the fastest

economic development in the history of the world.