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"So, 2016 is a strange year." *2020*: hold my beer

"The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate."--- Dr. Wayne Dyer "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." ---Upton Sinclair

This is an absolute GOLD MINE. Everybody should listen to this. Great lecture.

Social justice is an ideology. Truth is not.

7:00 Telos 13:15 Motivated Reasoning 22:25 Sacredness 34:05 Anti-Fragility 39:20 Blasphemy Laws 46:45 Correlation 56:10 Justice 1:02:00 Schism 1:05:36 Conclusion

“2016 is a strange year” wait 4 years my friend... just wait

Extremely well presented and persuasive. Love the insights on the nature of our university discourse in recent history. Professor Haidt has explicitly articulated an internal reality a lot of people are experiencing in the classroom today. Bravo!

I am a Chinese majored in Computer Science. I think the gender study major in the west should never exist as an academic department, and it is toxic to the entire intellectual atmosphere in the University. Note that I strongly support women rights movement in the past centuries. In the Universities in mainland China, we have a department called "School of Marxism studies." They apply modern social science theory to research on "Marxism with Chinese characteristics". Their publication is also nice looking, in a serious tone, with all the modern social science theories, but their entire goal is to prove: "1. Marxism is right." "2. Marxism with Chinese characteristics is still Marxism." "3. China is still a socialist county on the road to communism." There is tons of Ph.D. and professors in the "School of Marxism studies," however, I think they are so ashamed of their pseudo-science research that few of them dare to speak to STEM student to say: "Look, I am a scientist as well." Awarding that subject with the Ph.D. title is a shame to the entire academia. Why, because if they want to do real research in Marxism, they should do it in a proper philosophy, politics or economics department, so that their research can be challenged, disputed, proved or disproved by peers of a different view. In "School of Marxism studies," your conclusion is already there, what you need is to prove it with an eloquent essay. As a rule of thumb, an academic subject should not be established as such that its research (or pseudo-research) is revolving around an orthodoxical ideology. Whether such political ideology is just or unjust is another matter, science and research are entirely about Truth, not ideology. In scientific research, we need to report our funders so that other scientists can know that if there exists a channel of interest to cause potential bias. Confirmation bias and vested interest are fairly common issues in STEM researchers. However, in each STEM field, different sides can argue and dispute over the publications so that any hypothesis is attacked, examined, and finally prove or disproved over time. To summarize: every researcher has his own belief and his own bias; To arrive at truth, in STEM we ask the opposition forces to attack each other vigorously so, in the end, we found the truth that withstands the challenge. In physics, you can prove Newton Classic physics is wrong (or flawed). You will have a huge outcry in the circles, you will have both allies and enemy, but your career and physics research goes on. The simple matter is: the entire field of physics (or any STEM subject) do not depend on the orthodoxy of one particular set of theory or ideal. The subject that is founded on one particular set theory or ideal is religion. In women study (or any other other identity politic pseudo-research), the entire founding structure is wrong in the first place. I am not arguing about whether today's women study is good or bad, rational or irrational. I think any Ph.D. in STEM major will realize the fact that the system design of current women studies as an academic research system will cause a massive confirmation bias and a whole industry of vested interest in the field itself. Do you believe some Ph.D. in women study can publish a research hypothesis that white males are the disadvantaged social groups? Do you believe some Ph.D. in women study can publish a research hypothesis that male are inherently more intelligent (by whatever particular measure) than the female, so that men are better at some jobs? The above hypothesis is false IMO, but it is an important thinking game. It proves that there is a "right answer" and "wrong answer" of morality in the research, so some hypothesis will never be raised, and some conclusion will never be drawn. Moreover, graduates from women study virtually cannot find any job except being a teacher of women study or an activist. So if their researchers find that women are under institutional discrimination, the entire field benefit from it by collecting more funds and secure more teaching positions or jobs like "chief diversity officers in google"(As a CS student I burst into tears when I first heard of such title :P ). I am not arguing whether "women are under institutional discrimination" is true or false (I believe the claim is justified in someplace in China), I merely point out that there exist a chain of vested interest here. Most importantly, if someday, someone proves "women are under institutional discrimination" is untrue, if would dis-establish the entire field. Can you imagine the severity of it? The entire field of study will be demolished, that will be equivalent to proving Allah does not exist to Muslim. That is to say, hypotheses or research to disproving an certain argument in “women's study” will be an existential threat to all the Ph.D. in the subject and getting everyone so mad at you because their entire life, entire research, and future career will be fertile.With such a closed loop of positive feedback without negative review, it is therefore never a wonder for me that women study become an echo chamber and radicalized. Looking back in history, we would know that such moral ideal is a bad idea in reach science theory. Darwin theory which portrays a cold-hearted evolution by natural selection is not a welcoming thought in many religious people and defy the sanctity of the men. Many radical political thoughts (which cause mass murders) in modern time are inspired by Darwin theory. However, academia is not church; we should seek truth (however uncomfortable). Darwin can be good Christian when he is a man in daily life, but when he begins to work as a scientist, he must distance himself from what he believes or what he would like the world to be. In research, the scientist ceases to be a man; he becomes the embodiment reason itself. After the research, he recovers his morality and ideal. A scientist may then decide to hide the uncomfortable discover, or burn it because it will bring injustice when misused. I think many people outside of STEM emphasis on too much on humanity, too little on the reason. They do not realize the importance of this duality of personality when discovering the truth require our cold-hearted rationalism, and hiding the harmful truth from public require our warm-hearted humanity. I think every true scholar who is interested in women study, with the dream of obtaining truth, should leave that particular echo chamber. Real researchers on women’s issue should go back to common political science or sociology department where there is not a particular agenda or central ideology. Their theory may be completely right, but it needs to put outside of the echo chamber and face strict scrutiny to as befitting the academic standard. Having a feminist reviewing the paper of another feminist will not produce any real science.

HAIDT SPEECH.

"What's that sound like? A job!" I was sitting here silently listening, interested, and then burst out laughing.10/10 well done Professor Haidt.

"Only if you commit to truth can you actually achieve justice". Thank you Dr. Haidt and the Duke dept of PS.

Holy sh1t this lecture is aging well :-o

Jeez - this video needs millions of views

*Standing ovation*

Prof. Haidt, it feels like you picked my unorganised pile of thoughts which I made to this subject, and organised them into an on-point lecture. It was brilliant! This must be one of my favourite lectures of all time, and I am in STEM!

National treasures: Canada -Jordan Peterson, USA -Jonathan Haidt

Keep fighting the good fight Jon! :)

I'm a high schooler. I watched this video. Guess which University I'm applying to, and which I'm not?

It is not better at Duke. As of 2020, as a Duke graduate student, I can confirm that eggshells have only filled the room more.

This lecture should be mandatory for all students in all Universities as part of the admissions process.

I agree with pretty much everything he says except at 55:20: A bias towards hiring women is not "anti-sexist", it's still just sexist.

Emile Durkheim, "one of the greatest social psychologists ever" has company: Jonathan Haidt.

Man of this continuing moment of obfuscation. Well done Duke for hosting Professor Haidt

Not an accident that Haidt is one of the most prominent and popular public intellectuals of our time. Congratulations on a brilliant presentation!

I chose a social justice oriented school on purpose because I found traditional schooling too rigid and narrowly focused, 30 years ago. Things have swung so far in the opposite direction that I don't even recognize what people call social justice anymore. A traditional education has become the refuge from narrow perspectives, and now provides the broader perspective.

I'm glad these conversations are being had.

This is outstanding. I am going to invite everyone I know to watch this. Thanks Professor Haidt!

Hopefully the tides in academia are turning with guys like Jon Haidt and Jordan B Peterson.

What Haidt described 3 years ago now (2016 => 2019) in the context of university is just a microcosm of current raging sociopolitical dynamics in Western culture at large. It has only gotten worse...

funny thing is, we need to talk about this, there are people that thing women and men are the same

Jonathan Haidt is one of my favorite voices of reason: erudite, clinical, humble, and humorous.

Fascinating talk Sir! I am on the young side of the baby boomer generation. Everything I see and hear about colleges today makes my skin crawl. Your 1990's change explanation helps me understand why these kids are so extremely fragile while at the same time extremely angry and violent. Weird dichotomy. Thank you for sharing your work freely here on you tube!

As an ardent fan and admirer of Dr. Haidt I recommend this lecture to my friends, family and associates. But I also point out that seeking the truth and acting to change the world in accordance with insights our quest for truth has led us to are courses of action we often must pursue simultaneously through life. It is appropriate that during ones time in the University, at that age when we have so much to learn, the bulk of our energy is expanded on learning, and in the quest of truth. But not long after university the balance has to shift where we become agents of change within society, even while we (for the rest of our lives) continue to seek the truth and rectify the courses of our own actions.

This is probably the best lecture I've ever seen on KZfaq.

This lecture was a really big turning point in my university career. Great work, and thanks for sharing it!

"The only way to achieve equal outcomes is through injustice." 1:01:46

Absolutely fabulous. I'm only distressed that less than 2,000 people have seen this. A great diagnosis of the state of the University; and by extension, of much of our culture. Very well done!

Bertrand Russel: "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."

I wish I could give this a million likes. It is not WHAT political ideology the professoriate is biased toward, it is the fact that THEY ARE overwhelmingly one way than another.

I love you professor! if I share just one video on what is happening with culture and social justice, this is it

Uni's were a place where everything was questioned. I hope I live to see the 'were' and 'was' in that sentence become an 'is'.

Best video I've seen in the past few weeks. Glad to see professors coming around. Favorited.

Amazingly brave man. All of life should be aimed at finding truth. (And recognizing that truth exists. )

He's doing the hokey "say it with me" to stir feelings of togetherness via synchronicity.

This is extremely embarrassing for so many Brown students and alums.

*@Jon Haidt is such an EXCELLENT* 💙 *SPEAKER and his books and youtube talks consistently read in a friendly, understandable, easy-to-comprehend way!* *And he genuinely seems like a great guy to know and be around, too!!!*

What a find! What a lecture! I found myself fascinated by this man's understanding of our college campus culture evolution.

Jonathan Haidt is doing exceptional work and will go down as one of the most important and influential academics of our time.

If anyone is interested in a more detailed explanation of the philosophy of John Stuart Mill, I am creating a series of short clips on my channel that breaks his ideas down into a palatable format.

In 2020, this video resonates more than ever. Haidt is unfailingly correct in his analysis. with this exception; from my own experience, neo-Marxism on college campuses became a political force during the war in Vietnam, when academians became ideologues, especially in the humanities. It reached a critical tipping point in the 1990s, when the neo-Marxists of the 1960s began occupying administrative posts and departmental chairs. At that time, there was a noteable shift from diversity of ideas to diversity based on race and gender as identity politics came to dominate those disciplines in which empirical proof of a hypothesis is limited or nonexistent. Through the control of like-minded faculty appointments and the use of tenure, neo-Marxism is now firmly entrenched in our "elite" universities, with a few notable exceptions. The broadening of the curriculum inevitably lead to courses that were ideological rather than academic in nature -- "queer literature" and "feminine literature" for example. Findings in the social sciences were consciously distorted to support a neo-Marxist "social justice" agenda and active hostility to professors and guest speakers who did not hue to the party line became commonplace. In the process, freedom of inquiry was sacrificed, as the pursuit of Truth gave way to the pursuit of perceived "social justice" goals, with all of the ramifications Haidt details. Universities are not, however, going to declare themselves antagonistic to Truth and advocates of "social justice" as Haidt suggests. There is simply too much money to be made defrauding students and their families. What is impressive is that Haidt remains on the faculty of NYU in spite of his views. If he said such things while teaching at Harvard, Yale, or Berkeley, he would be long gone by now.

Extremely valuable contribution to the big issues dividing the Academy today. Haidt’s book The Righteous Mind was my best read of 2023. He’s a gifted communicator who balances rigorous research with accessible discourse 💯

Brilliant. This speaker has outstanding awareness, hence he's made room for knowledge with neutrality.

Just found this now... amazingly appropriate and insightful for the current environment. I'm American but spent 15 years overseas and recently returned - and I don't even recognize my own culture anymore.

This lecture should be a requirement for every member of Congress!

This is wonderful. And so, so important. Thank you for sharing.

Quite a long video but very much worth watching. This is the best examination and dissection of the modern college culture in America that I have seen.

haidt seems to be talking about the incompatibility of truth and social justice as an ideology, rather than justice e.g. in the aristotelian sense. obviously ideology and the pursuit of truth (fact) are at odds - the main takeaway is that social justice has evolved from a dispassionate cause into an ideology, which is i think the actual problem he means to get at.

Thank you for this effort to assist moving us all, into a better tomorrow, a more Just Future.

Initially I had hard time to continue, perhaps until one third into the lecture. Afterwards I was hooked and loved his presentation. I didn't know John's ideas much, except his interview with Jordan Peterson. I loved this presentation, very cogent.

fuck yeah jonathan haidt

Wow. This guy is so impressive. I wonder how he was allowed on campus with his subversive ideology...

what a wonderful lecture it is! Kudos to the Professor

Love Jonathan and his work. Support him any way you can.

55:15 "STEM is systemically anti-sexist" So to discriminate against men in favour of women is somehow "anti-sexist" now and not just plain old sexism. I do hope this was just a slip of the tongue so to say for him to save his own ass from potential knock-back. Considering how the prof. describes university environments I don't consider it unlikely... Other than that, great lecture.

Among the best and the most convincing lecture I've watched on this topic, 2020 onwards has been even stranger than 2016, keep up with the Haidt speech!

You're the best, Professor Haidt!

Excellent lecture! I like that the idea of equal outcomes is inherently unjust.

The only system that truly works fairly is one in which everyone has equal access to opportunity, is allowed to choose for themselves, and is rewarded on the basis of merit / achievement.

There is another word. Maybe it's not perfect, but it's pretty close. The word is GRIT. No one is born with fully developed true grit. It's built up in increments.

Fascinating Lecture. I’m 53and remember when there was more balance and critique. Of course it wasn’t perfect but Johnathan has helped me understand just how and why the world and logic has been turned upside

Most excellent presentation! Thanks.

I'm reminded of the professor who, after being instructed to improve female graduate numbers in his science department to 55% (population of women in the country), was shocked that I, a female, said they were making their degrees worthless because he would have to fail most male students and pass every single female student and still not have the numbers because only 17% of the class were female (the same as the pass rate anyway). Apparently no one had considered that....

One of the best talks I have ever heard. He also uses humor effectively. Except possibly for Jordan Preston, he has no peer.

I like John. He lectures on great subject matter and communicates very well.

This presentation should be mandatory viewing for all high school seniors. A prerequisite for graduation.

I'm very far on the Left, but it's refreshing to hear this talked about academically. Usually you either hear people of the Left who vehemently support the culture Haidt is arguing against, or you hear a bunch of mouth-breathing racists who think safe-spaces are the worst thing in the universe. It's good to hear a measured and researched assessment of the situation.

gud talk all in all, only 55:00 is a bit strange... Ofc having a benefit just by the virtue of your gender is wrong. And discriminating against men in favor women isn't anti-sexist, it's just sexist. Haidt lost the plot on that occasion, otherwise a bunch of interesting and fair points.

Wonderful presentation. Thank you Professor Haidt and Duke University!

Brilliant presentation. Very diplomatic and kindly expressed while showing examples of our innate human qualities that sometimes betray us. Difficult but supremely important topic to bring awareness to. We must challenge our ideas and be open to critical debate. Love this call to action.

22:30 Sacredness as something that makes people cooperate without being closely related I think one can put it this way: In nature ants and bees cooperate by being _genetic_ siblings. Humans cooperate by being _memetic_ siblings, by following the same ideology or religion.

Watched this 4 years ago. How much louder does it ring true today in 2020? Should be required listening in high schools, but it never will be so pull your kids out of those damn indoctrination centers.

Phenomenal lecture. Remarkably prophetic. Everyone should take time to watch this!

love jonathan haidt! great speech by him, as always

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."

This lecture is fantastic. Can't wait to read his book!

Wonderful, wonderful talk by an intelligent, educated and articulate speaker.

This needs to be taught in every University.

Hmm. Jonathan Haidt has made a mistake in classifying bees (haplodiploid) with termites (not haplodiploid). He is right about pretty well everything else, though!

Wow! Thank you! I have renewed hope that things are swinging back toward truth. HOW REFRESHING! I am so happy that someone FINALLY sees what's happening to our universities and is moving toward seeking the TRUTH, and NOT social justice. I could not find anything to disagree with! My own father-in-law was a professor at Princeton and used to be a senior research scientist for the Educational Testing Service. He received his PhD in sociology and psychology. But he became "marxist" in his point of view. For this reason my husband and he became estranged because his father could no longer accept the "conservative" point of view. He saw it as "enmity towards social justice". My father-in-law, Dr. Robert F. Boldt, attended Princeton in the 1940s. EVEN THEN this destructive marxist point of view was taking hold. So it is not a NEW thing. So this video hit home with us. It is exactly what we see happening. Both my husband and I are college educated and in our late 50s and we've seen the transition just as Jon Haidt has demonstrated.

I needed this, thank you. This quarter was hard and I was arguing for truth and science and got beat in to the ground. Merci.

So helpful to have some insight into how and why parts of our society seem to be going insane.

"social justice helps you study better" That aged like milk.

2016 is a strange year 2020 "hold my beer"

This lecture is profoundly important not only to Academia but Western SocietyProffessor Jonathan Haidt is one of the great thinkers of our time who truly understands the social implications of where our culture is headed

Excellent talk! I think I'm in love.

This was EXCELLENT. Thank you so much for making this content accesible.

This lecture aged so well.

This is a very important lecture. Wonderful. Thank you.

Interesting talk and agree with a lot of it. Brutal how the student at the end just says "how do we vote if we reject false dichotomies" haha