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Happiness Is Fleeting (ft. Jordan Peterson)
[Intro]
Happiness is fleeting
And suffering requires a sustaining meaning
Happiness is fleeting
And suffering requires a sustaining meaning
That place where the meaning and the fact are conjoined
That's the proper place to lecture from
What you wanna do as an academic is tell your students
About something that you've encountered that you've fallen in love with
And to communicate the love that you have for that
And not to say, “Well, you should read this book.”
But to say, “Well, here's this book, and here's what it can open up for you and this is how it does it, this is what you'll gain from it”
There's something in it that's of unbelievable utility, and you have to believe that in order to communicate it
To communicate that commitment you have to beauty and to truth and to literature
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Happiness is fleeting
And suffering requires a sustaining meaning
Happiness is fleeting
And suffering requires a sustaining meaning
That place where the meaning and the fact are conjoined
That's the proper place to lecture from
What you wanna do as an academic is tell your students
About something that you've encountered that you've fallen in love with
And to communicate the love that you have for that
And not to say, “Well, you should read this book.”
But to say, “Well, here's this book, and here's what it can open up for you and this is how it does it, this is what you'll gain from it”
There's something in it that's of unbelievable utility, and you have to believe that in order to communicate it
To communicate that commitment you have to beauty and to truth and to literature
Make It Beautiful (ft. Jordan Peterson)
Without that beauty, there's no call to higher being
You know and this is also why I've mentioned to people that they should clean up their rooms
That's become quite the internet meme
But I'm really serious about it, 'cause it's really hard to do that
It isn't just that you clean it up
You also make it beautiful
[Chorus]
Make it beautiful
Make it beautiful
Make it beautiful
Make it – Make it beautiful
Make it beautiful
It's really hard to make something beautiful
Make it beautiful
And it's really worthwhile
Make it beautiful
It's really hard to make something beautiful
Make it beautiful
And it's really worthwhile
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You know and this is also why I've mentioned to people that they should clean up their rooms
That's become quite the internet meme
But I'm really serious about it, 'cause it's really hard to do that
It isn't just that you clean it up
You also make it beautiful
[Chorus]
Make it beautiful
Make it beautiful
Make it beautiful
Make it – Make it beautiful
Make it beautiful
It's really hard to make something beautiful
Make it beautiful
And it's really worthwhile
Make it beautiful
It's really hard to make something beautiful
Make it beautiful
And it's really worthwhile
Beauty Is So Valuable (And We're So Afraid Of It) (ft. Jordan Peterson)
[Chorus]
Beauty is so valuable and we're so afraid of it
Beauty is so valuable and we're so afraid of it
It's not the only pathway to the divine
Love is one of them I suppose
But beauty, especially for people who have an affinity for beauty, it's like music
It's one of those things you can't argue against
You can't even understand, it just hits you
It just hits you
It's like a vision of the potential future
That if we just got our act together, and beautified things
That's the place that we can inhabit, and that would enoble us
And that’s why Jerusalem, the heavenly city, is paved with gemstones
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Beauty is so valuable and we're so afraid of it
Beauty is so valuable and we're so afraid of it
It's not the only pathway to the divine
Love is one of them I suppose
But beauty, especially for people who have an affinity for beauty, it's like music
It's one of those things you can't argue against
You can't even understand, it just hits you
It just hits you
It's like a vision of the potential future
That if we just got our act together, and beautified things
That's the place that we can inhabit, and that would enoble us
And that’s why Jerusalem, the heavenly city, is paved with gemstones
Sleeping Beauty (ft. Jordan Peterson)
You know in Sleeping Beauty, Sleeping Beauty goes to sleep
And the reason she goes to sleep is because she has parents who are quite old
So they're pretty desperate to have a child, like so many people are now
And they only have one child, like so many people do now
They don't want anything to happen to this child
‘Cause it's like, hey, it's a miracle
And she's the princess, we're not letting anything around her
So they have a big Christening party and they invite everybody
But they don't invite Maleficent, and Maleficent is the terrible mother, she's nature
The thing that goes bump in the night
She's the devil herself, so to speak
She's everything that you don't want your child to encounter
So the King and Queen say, "Well, we just won't invite her to the Christening."
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And the reason she goes to sleep is because she has parents who are quite old
So they're pretty desperate to have a child, like so many people are now
And they only have one child, like so many people do now
They don't want anything to happen to this child
‘Cause it's like, hey, it's a miracle
And she's the princess, we're not letting anything around her
So they have a big Christening party and they invite everybody
But they don't invite Maleficent, and Maleficent is the terrible mother, she's nature
The thing that goes bump in the night
She's the devil herself, so to speak
She's everything that you don't want your child to encounter
So the King and Queen say, "Well, we just won't invite her to the Christening."
THink Critically (ft. Jordan Peterson)
[Chorus]
New age people are creative
But they can't think critically
But they can't think critically
But I can think critically
I – I – I can think critically
New Age people are creative
But they can't think critically
But they can't think critically
But I can think critically
(Yes, I think very deeply)
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New age people are creative
But they can't think critically
But they can't think critically
But I can think critically
I – I – I can think critically
New Age people are creative
But they can't think critically
But they can't think critically
But I can think critically
(Yes, I think very deeply)
You'll Pay For It (ft. Jordan Peterson)
(Question)
What could you do to improve yourself? (Bucko)
Well, the first question might be
Why should you even bother improving yourself?
And I think the answer to that is something like
So you don't suffer any more stupidly than you have to
And maybe so others don't have to either
It's something like that
You know like there's a real adjunction at the bottom of it
It's not some casual self-help doctrine, it's
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What could you do to improve yourself? (Bucko)
Well, the first question might be
Why should you even bother improving yourself?
And I think the answer to that is something like
So you don't suffer any more stupidly than you have to
And maybe so others don't have to either
It's something like that
You know like there's a real adjunction at the bottom of it
It's not some casual self-help doctrine, it's
Fix It (ft. Jordan Peterson)
[Chorus]
Fix it, fix it, fix It
See if you can fix it
Fix it, fix it, fix it
See if you can fix it
Fix it, fix it
So now you think, well
You can do this in a room, it's quite fun
Maybe your bedroom, you can sit there and just sort of meditate on it
If I wanted to spend 10 minutes making this room better
What would I have to do?
But you have to ask yourself that, right? It's not a command, it's like a genuine question, (Question)
And things will pop out in the room
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Fix it, fix it, fix It
See if you can fix it
Fix it, fix it, fix it
See if you can fix it
Fix it, fix it
So now you think, well
You can do this in a room, it's quite fun
Maybe your bedroom, you can sit there and just sort of meditate on it
If I wanted to spend 10 minutes making this room better
What would I have to do?
But you have to ask yourself that, right? It's not a command, it's like a genuine question, (Question)
And things will pop out in the room
The Finite & The Infinite (ft. Jordan Peterson)
[Intro]
Be careful where you aim at
Be careful where you aim at
When I started working on this problem
Or I guess when it start working on me was probably really in the mid 80s
I found myself suffering from two things, one was a very lengthy sequence of nightmares of nuclear destruction
They were very affective dreams
And associated with that was a sense of amazement that the dream that was that awful could reflect a reality that could be that awful
And additional amazement at the fact that despite the production of tens and thousands of weapons of unimaginable destruction
That people could go about their day-to-day lives without acting as if anything fundamental, whatsoever had changed
I've never really been able to figure out why that disturb me so much when it seemed to not disturb most of the people I knew
It doesn't really matter
Spent my whole life trying to understand what evil was and more importantly, what might be done about it
[Chorus]
Human existence consists of the confrontation between
The finite and the infinite, the finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of the confrontation between
The finite and the infinite, the finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of the confrontation between
The finite and the infinite, the finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of the confrontation between
The finite and the infinite, the finite and the infinite
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Be careful where you aim at
Be careful where you aim at
When I started working on this problem
Or I guess when it start working on me was probably really in the mid 80s
I found myself suffering from two things, one was a very lengthy sequence of nightmares of nuclear destruction
They were very affective dreams
And associated with that was a sense of amazement that the dream that was that awful could reflect a reality that could be that awful
And additional amazement at the fact that despite the production of tens and thousands of weapons of unimaginable destruction
That people could go about their day-to-day lives without acting as if anything fundamental, whatsoever had changed
I've never really been able to figure out why that disturb me so much when it seemed to not disturb most of the people I knew
It doesn't really matter
Spent my whole life trying to understand what evil was and more importantly, what might be done about it
[Chorus]
Human existence consists of the confrontation between
The finite and the infinite, the finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of the confrontation between
The finite and the infinite, the finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of the confrontation between
The finite and the infinite, the finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of the confrontation between
The finite and the infinite, the finite and the infinite