Jordan B Peterson: You Need To Listen To Your Wife! We've Built A Lonely & Sexless Society!

We know that couples that live together before the marriage actually increases the probability that the relationship will fail, and the reason for that's very straightforward.

And talking of things that risk harming relationships, a subject we've never spoken about before, is ...

Oh, yeah. And that's a huge reason sex is disappearing. People need to stop doing that. Jordan Peterson, the psychology professor people love or love to hate. He's undeniably one of the greatest intellectual phenomenons on the planet. And many view him as the ultimate father figure. Welcome back, Mr. Peterson. We're built for maximal challenge, and that isn't the way we view ourselves in the modern world. We view ourselves as built for consumption and pleasure, for example, watching pornography.

But what are the downstream consequences of that?

Well, first of all, it's easy.

To get what?

Sexual gratification.

But does it matter?

Oh, it's a catastrophe. You're not desperate anymore, and if you're gonna have the true adventure of your life, you're gonna need love, shame, guilt, aspiration, and pain. Like, it's hard, but now people take the easy road, like avoiding conflict, for example. And I spent a lot of time studying evil. It arises when good men hold their tongue. Now, you may suffer some consequences of speaking, but retreating one step at a time defensively that it makes you sick of yourself, there's nothing worse that could happen to you. You want your life to be unbearably entertaining, and maybe all the sorrow and catastrophe has to be part of it because otherwise there's, there's nothing about it that's glorious.

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