In China, we have a famous history teacher, Mr. Yuan, who teaches with the most interesting stories. He makes history fun, not boring. He rose to fame with some students posting his class on the internet and was even invited by the CCTV to host a history show for many episodes. However, he would teach the truth about communism, so he was cancelled by our government. There are still old videos on YT with him joking and belittling Chairman Mao in his class. Fortunately, he comes from a military background, so he is safe as long as he doesn’t openly speaks against the CCP government anymore. He has a YT channel and I subscribe to it. I wish Dr. Peterson could have a podcast with him to talk about his view on Communism. However, he doesn’t know any English, and it probably wouldn’t be safe for him to do so. 😅😢

Never let schooling get in the way of your education.

I still can't believe I'm alive in a time when this material is free of charge.

Well... to society's great misfortune, this lecture aged like a fine wine.

I think history and psychology need to be taught in the same class. I think it’s important to not only know what happened during a certain period in history, but also the mindset of the people at the time.

Peterson at his best, wish he would talk about this more.

As a retired History Prof., BRAVO Dr. Peterson and THANK YOU!

Im going through wwii in my us history class right now and it frustrates me so much that this is hardly even mentioned. meanwhile I've learned the exact same us history curriculum 4 times since 5th grade. and the whole purpose of social studies is to understand history, all the schools care about is shoving a couple of one sided facts down your throat and sending you off to test. its an absolute injustice.

What hasn’t failed me is the better question. I’ve had to learn everything myself, including: 1. Proper nutrition and how to eat to be healthy - doctors and health experts are clueless 2. Financial education - asset protection and trust funds to protect wealth & minimise taxation - parents & schools didn’t teach me anything. 3. Classical education - trivium and quadrivium - learning how to to learn and how to think and seek truth, beauty and goodness. 4. How to cook proper healthy and nutritious meals - yup, no one taught me that either 5. De-addiction to consumptive technology - this harmful and destructive stuff, designed to destroy my attention span, was pushed onto me since high school. I’ve slowly got my screen time down and get my attention span back to normal - so that I can read books like before. 6. Stress management - I’ve had to learn how to manage stress and anxiety caused by 24*7 war-like conditions crated by avaricious and psychopathic governments & corporations who benefit from keeping me in a confused state 7. How to grow food - I have had to learn how to garden and now I grow fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs - free from the poisons that infect grocery produce. 8. Learning the importance of a healthy gut microbiome - I’ve had to learn how to ferment my own vegetables, and make my own kefir, to maintain high diversity of gut microflora, which is the foundation of good health. Not one health expert ever told me about this. 9. Spiritual growth - constant atheism and degeneracy has been pushed onto me ever since I can remember. I’ve had to cross the bridge to God myself to help me discern lies from the truth. Unsurprisingly, a society that relies on me to be a dumbed down cattle so it can profit off of me is not gonna teach me that. 10. The importance of healthy art, music & philosophy to combat demoralisation and maintain a healthy spirit - ever since I can remember, science was pushed on to me as this all knowing omniscient God, obliging me to be grateful to it’s all encompassing powers in advancing humanity. Well all those ‘advances’ did nothing to keep me spiritually healthy, in fact they only destroyed my spirit. I’ve had to find old artworks, classical music and ancient philosophy all on my own to build and maintain my spiritual health. Once again, what hasn’t failed me, is the better question. But as usual, is there any accountability here, no. We are all on our own no matter how many times sociopaths say we are all in this together. They are all liars.

Love JP's class lectures. So thankful for all your knowledge sir.

I am watching through the Personality course right now and it’s funny that this came up. I’m feeling cold all over when I compare the events Dr. Peterson is talking about here to present day. I was raised a Christian fundamentalist kid and was excruciatingly aware of the horrors and terrors of Communist China and the Soviet Union because we had missionaries we prayed for constantly. I cannot recommend the personality course in its entirety highly enough.

I personally find these kinds of videos more educating compared to discussion series. Thank you Dr. Peterson

TITLE ERROR: I believe it should be "Here Are the Most Important Events of the 20th Century"

Wow. As a student of Occupational Psychology, I can say I have never seen or heard anything that comes close to this. What an interesting and deep thinking man.

We need to make it MANDATORY that schools teach the honest and brutal reality of the history of communism

One has to know History to learn and avoid mistakes but mainly to advance and prosper in the future. Thank you Jordan 👍🏻✝️❤️

Thank you for linking the full lecture, very interesting stuff.

Fantastic information as always. Thank you for the content. Stay safe.

Infinitely, acknowledgement without manipulation or terrorisation are very crucial to our world needs more than anything, we can't thank enough the sacrifice of all...Thank you so much Dr.Peterson for all and more.👏👏👏

I'm reminded of something my parents and their parents before them used to say, "freedom is not free" (it's bought through struggle.) I've also been contemplating my own child's experience with "school" and trying to help him rescue a sense that he is the master of his destiny and that of his own education too. Thank you to Mr./Dr. Peterson for setting an example.

In Canada (high school) we learned the events of ww2. Literally battle sequences and the names of ships that sank. I'm still not sure what that was all about. I later studied European history in university (pre-wokeness) and it was very enlightening.

This needs is a part 2, please.

I had a teacher that started teaching in the 60's and he said I'm going to teach you real history and he covered it. But I bet most of my classmates never retained it.

Thank you for educating me, Pescador de Hombres. I am SO GRATEFUL to you.

Where was Peterson when I was in history class. He treats it like its some form of revelation.

Thanks

"Desire to shrink from individual responsibility [to] ready-made ideological solutions."

4:52 yes taking ones individuality can never be underestimated again

Why does it say 21st in the title when he’s talking about the 20th?

All of this was covered during my education in the UK. Except we were taught that these things happened in the 20th century, not the 21st.

King of constructive feedback 👌

Dr Peterson, you are a great motivation to many hundreds of thousands of people. I have a quick question for you, have you ever seen the series "The greatest Story Never Told" by Dennis Wise? If so, what did you think of it?

watch the hole lecture it's far less depressing and is really very motivationel

Hello! Question for you: How are you able to maintain a balance of not letting all the issues of the world impact your mood in everyday life? I’m obviously not a KZfaq creator, but I work 2 jobs and since I just graduated college, I have a lot of down time. I listen to a lot of political stuff on KZfaq. Not woke stuff, but content like yours where the woke stuff gets broken down. I enjoy this kind of content but my boyfriend can tell if I’ve listened to too much in a day. It impacts my mood greatly because I get frustrated by all these issues within the world and feel like I can’t do anything to help with it, other than just be aware, and so that frustration just builds inside me and I have no way to let it out. I know that this is part of your career so I’m wondering how you let go of the frustrating feelings that I’m sure your job discussing politics puts you in?

Wow that is powerful.

thank you for speaking the truth

I wake up in the morning and feel in my bones as if something big is coming. I need to be able to see it coming and I feel like I'm getting there but I hope I won't be too late

When in college i strongly favored the "hard" sciences rather than the humanities. Nevertheless my education has failed me in a profound sense. That was circa 1972. So what you're saying Dr. Peterson is not news to me. But by all means please continue to say it. The larger population apparently needs to hear that truth.

Here in Ukraine we taught from elementary school about crimes of Soviet Union. Moreover, the Constitution of Ukraine forbid communist parties and propaganda. I believe every civilised country should do the same, otherwise it could lead to dictatorship. Russia, China, North Corea and, of course, Soviet Union are all examples of inhuman nature of this idiology

“We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell. Only if we give up our authoritarian attitude in the realm of opinion, only if we establish the attitude of give and take, of readiness to learn from other people, can we hope to control acts of violence inspired by piety and duty.” ― Karl R. Popper

History repeats check for your self and I am not a historian but I will say Mr jp no matter what his belief is he tells us all people the truth God bless you all x

Are you talking about the instution that I figured all we were missing was the orange jumpsuits and I called social obedient training classes.

I came looking for something else and by chance, I found this lecture. He sounds really interesting and would love to watch some more, what else should I watch next?

This is much more terrifying than it was just a couple of years ago

The title is wrong. He talks about the 20th century.

Which lecture video does this clip come from?

Some eerily similar parallels with what’s happening today...

I wonder what it would be like, if we had to go back and read everything we ever said on social media. Who would do that?! Who would do that, for others?!…and, then punish them others for what was said?!

I learned about it

Genius Genius Genius

12:38 It’s also very dangerous to skim over the horrors done unto others based on their skin, just because you don’t give a flying fck about that particular group.

Ok so this was pretty damn important stuff

Undergraduate student from India. Even we're exclusively taught the World Wars and the Cold War in school. I know nothing about Stalin and Lenin beyond their names even though I should have. Inspite of being taught about the genocide in WW2, people don't seem to understand the seriousness of it and don't usually relate and try to understand the present eith respect to the past.

Please read the Malius Malificarum…cover to cover.

Those who refuse to learn from history will always repeat it. History is the most important subject.

done.

Hell yeah

Samizdat was a primitive form of a press, using charcoal and egg whites for ink. It was a time before fotocopies (well, there were fotocopy machines, but use of them was restricted and controlled by secret police).

I went to the second best rated high school in North Carolina, then to North Carolina State University, and only learned the work Kulak when I was 40 years old. Hell, even my computer thinks the word Kulak is a misspelled word! This is wild.

Sadly, ones that need to hear this most, won't.

I thought these events happened in the 20th century.

1:47 yes, people are usually milder in their views to those that saved them and to those they can relate with. During the war (even during the Molotov-Ribbentroppact) it were predominantly the communists who resisted the Nazis. The communist-intelligentsia in the West wasn’t looking to establish a Maoist or Stalinist society, but more something along the lines of the kibbutzim in Israel. But yes, in for example The Netherlands a street was named after Stalin shortly after the war. In 1956 Stalin was ditched and the name was changed to Freedomlane. Something Peterson undoubtedly frowns upon, as we are supposed to keep streetnames and statues of our shameful past. It’s also interesting how we do not want to know about our own sordid past. Growing up we talked about the accomplishments of my country in history classes, in full denial of the atrocities committed throughout the centuries. We were proud of our worldwide victories over others. Our colonies. Today, at half a century, I realise that our capitalist endeavours of the past caused severe hardship and consequences up to now. While I did hear about the horrors of Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and the lot, I think I only heard about the Western supported mass murders in Indonesia some 10 years ago. Baffling. The mass murder of some 500,000 to 1,000,000 supposed communists in Indonesia during 1965-1966 completely and utterly ignored in my country.

"history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes"

The present is a spiteful over correction for the past that people who have nothing to do with the past are facing the consequences of because other people want to feel like they are better than everyone else and want to virtue signal when we should all just start from scratch as best we can with all the unadulterated information we have available.

jeez why was your phone screen so bright

I am german and due to time constraints we narrowed down WW1 & WW2 to the role of women in WW2. I had to read the censored version of Anne Frank 3 times. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the 30 years war, which was much worse than the world wars and killed 2/3 of the population in parts of germany, was skimmed over as well.

Two great stories of the Twentieth Century: the sudden rise of technology and the battles of freedom against socialism.

Truth💪✨👏👏👏

Would love to hear him on king leopold and the congolese genocide and privation of independance.

Title of the video seems to be talking about the wrong century

The holomodor is a fascinating piece of recent human history

I very much so disagree with his description of Man’s Search for Meaning-I feel that Frankel want mainly concerned with how a person became a pawn of the state, but rather how one had to simply learn to survive in one of the worst situations imaginable. And yes, I do realize the parallels between those two ideas.

Think the title is inaccurate. Should be 20th century. And yeah, Im towards the end of the Gulag Archipelago ... it is truely eye opening just how bad shit can get, I couldnt believe what I was reading, I never learned any of the depths of it in US school ... its truely a stark warning to just how bad shit can get if you dont fight to preserve your freedom. Its a warnin to the west really ... and now we are here. One of the quotes I love that Solzhenitsyn said, that sums up things quite nicely is this: "Humans are born with different capacities, if they are free they are not equal, if they are equal they are not free."

This man is our era’s mlk or Jefferson

I'm happy to be from an old school.

My sweetheart got her Master's in a Russian university in the 1980s - not in one of those sleazy Western colleges where you don't have to work. They read Marx every day from as soon as they could read but they got educated too. Unlike our students and despite decades of propaganda, she rejected the whole thing as being "stupid" but remains Russian to the core and against the war. How is it that somebody can go through Little Oktobrists, Young Pioneers, and Komsomol and end up able to see that it's all crap and our students can't? People never hear the phrase "killing by categories" anymore. It was easier to define a group and kill them all than to try to find individuals to blame and convict. I knew a Communist in the US in the 1970s who thought it was a good idea.

When I was a child in elementary school, I was taught to THINK. Students today are told to "shut-up and listen".

Individuals establish values, which they use to interact with other individuals in their community. Depending on how common those values are within the community, certain values end up being hailed as cultural values, off of which laws to govern the community form. The institutions operating under these laws must abide by them, which may affect their efficiency, productivity, and therefore, the livelihoods of those living within the community, going on to affect the values they hold individually, and the cycle goes on. This is why, in order to prevent a hell bound spiral, the greatest point of focus is the individual. The individual is the foundation, and truth is the greatest tool.

I guess I am the first to comment. Well.. Thank you Jordan for sharing your wisdom.

Typo in title

This was a lecture at a Canadian university, from a renowned Canadian psychologist. Is this considered Canadian content that the government should start promoting?

It's hard enough to engage children in history classes. I know, I was one of them. And a fact like 60 million Russians and 100 million Chinese would have made exactly 0 impact on me. It might even have been mentioned, I wouldn't know. But the faces of the Holocaust, the names of the people involved, they were at least somewhat familiar, so something stuck. There were movies, miniseries, articles created about something that really happened much closer to home. If any of that attention had been spread more thinly to cover also what happened in other parts of the world, it would have come at the cost of depth in covering the Holocaust.

I never expected my president to be mentioned by JP. Wow.

Hi

I miss this Jordan Peterson.

Such awareness of my humanity! My guilt, my shame! Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”-Isaiah 6:5 “O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?” “I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.”- Romans 7:24-25 12:39

You have the best content, especially for an uneducated man like myself,, but Please God Lighten Up on the ADDS .

I’ve been spent my whole life looking for love outside myself I’m done 🌝

When you cant tell how many people died its bad and worth learning about.

Best thing i got out of highschool was to read a day in the life of ivan denisovich at least

Mistake in the title, 20th not 21st

Isn’t this the 20th century…not the 21st century? The 21st century isn’t even over.

How odd, in Germany we actually had a decent history Programm, even though I thought back then : why do I need to know that 😅

Starving for "Group Identity" at one place/time Punishing one based on "Group Identity" at one place/time

Shouldn't the title be 20th Century??

Follow this up with James Bartholomew on the New Culture Forum…another deep expert on communism atrocities

My biggest lifelong fear has always been the rise of the Right, fascism, totalitarianism.

Lot's of similarities to what is happening in the USA.

I knew every number before he said them from my HIGH SCHOOL education decades ago. What the fuck happened??

Yep my ancestors were pushed east russia