We all think we’d be the hero… but during the pandemic in Canada, 30% of Jordan Peterson’s neighbors were thrilled to snitch on others just to feel morally superior.
That’s the uncomfortable truth he dropped on the Shawn Ryan Show. People read about Nazi Germany and always picture themselves as Schindler or saving Anne Frank. Almost no one imagines they’d be the perpetrator. Yet the pandemic showed how quickly many embrace darkness when it feels righteous.
It’s easy to judge history from a distance. The real test is recognizing that the capacity for darkness lives in all of us, waiting for the right conditions to emerge. True wisdom, and real guts, begins when we stop pretending evil is only something other people do and choose to do what’s right anyway.
Have you ever caught yourself doing something you once swore you’d never do, especially when it felt like the “right” side at the time?
In 1962, there were three Indigenous teachers (Joe Stanley Michel, Benjamin Paul, and Mabel Caron) at the Kamloops residential school.
By 1973, half the staff was Indigenous along with the principal (Nathan Matthew).
Other than the 215 murders, it was a pretty great school.
I know philosophers who dine out their whole career in exposition of the brilliant Hannah Arendt.
When COVID-19 hit, every single one kept his mouth shut.
@newstart_2024 When the common man is not guaranteed reproductive success, he will no longer produce for his community. There isn't a hope in hell that he'll fight for his country either. His nation will be ripe for invasion.
@MattWallace888 Hundreds of dollars in damage.
Risk of rodent infestation.
All because the property owner's identity group didn't have clout with Britain's rulers.
I hope that the reckoning with those political thugs is merciless.