How do you keep up with news in this biased mainstream media?
Getting correct and unbiased information from media nowadays is almost impossible. Do you prefer to get news from certain media outlets? Any tips on how to deep dive on certain media topic to gain correct, unbiased, reasonable information?
Can Abel help Cain and prevent disaster?
Can Abel help Cain and prevent disaster? How can you be certain you are Abel? Is there a point of no return on Cain’s path? When? Should Abel help Cain as he is his brother or is Cain’s life none of Abel’s business to begin with? And if he can and should help, how?
How can I recognize and avoid ideological (or idolotrous) thought in myself?
Hello Dr. Peterson, In your talk with Steven Pinker and Jonathan Haidt, you talked about the "God-shaped hole" that we have as humans, and how dangerous it is when we try to fill that with something other than the ultimate good, and claimed that this is what's happening with the heightened intensity and polarization of the political discussion. This strikes me as profound and important, and resonates with secular Jewish sermons (yes, that's a thing) describing idolotry in a similar fashion - placing any value as "the top value" is an attempt to replace god, such as in the story of the Tower of Babel. I feel that this framing has helped me make sense of a wide variety of phenomena around me - from political correctness, through the extremes in the vaccine discussion, and up to some of the strong advocates of Bitcoin, for instance. Since I believe in the importance of avoiding idolotry in this form, I want to do what I can to notice where it appears in me. So, my question is - how do you recognize when a value that you're pursuing has overstepped its bounds and has become a form of idolotry?
Rules framework
Hi Dr. Peterson, I find that as a young person myself, we’ve been misinformed by post-modernism in that there are no fundamental truths. This has been quite disorienting as it becomes difficult to pick a target to aim at. How important do you think it is, that young people develop a fundamental framework to guide themselves before picking a goal such as career, status etc.