A Psychologist and Historian Discuss the End of the World | Dr. Niall Ferguson | EP 404

So it seems college level discourse has left the campus and come to YouTube where it can be accessible to everyone with a cell phone and a browser. It would seem culture is moving forward despite the common narrative from established interests. Thank you for this time well spent.

A talk between Jordan Peterson and Tomas Sowell would break the internet

It blows my (average) mind to listen to such brilliance, but I'm not envious... in fact, I'm immensely thankful that I'm able to expand my own thinking and understanding by having these wondrous discussions so readily available to me. Thank you Dr. Peterson for the gift of these experiences.

The way these 2 brilliant men just talked is how we should be sorting out our world problems with integrity and respect and a genuine intellect and a genuine care and desire to fix things and not to have the arrogance of not listening truly to each other until we find the answers together, not for praise or popularity but for genuine want of a better state of being which will bring a better world, thanks again Mr peterson and all your guests

"solving global warming by installing solar cells created by burning coal in China" I love it! In one sentence, Niall vividly illustrates our political dystopian rule

"The World Isn't Falling Apart , The Veil Of The World Wide Corruption Is" ... 100%

11:14 If the Kingdom of God - as described in the Bible sounds dull to you, you haven't experienced gods presence, power and love in your life yet. There is nothingt comparable to it, and the only possible respons is to cry out "Holy holy holy" as the saints do... I truly wish such a life changing encounter to every one 🙌🏼

This episode has totally blown my mind. Learned more from this conversation than the entirety of my three year university education. This is going to take a very long time and so much thought / reading to unpack. The ending was extraordinary. Absolutely first class content. Thank you both.

I really want to commend Dr. Peterson for improving in the area of avoiding interrupting his guests. It used to be very distracting, but he has clearly worked on this.

Thank you doctors Peterson and Ferguson for this illuminating conversation and allowing us, the common folk with the simple minds, to indulge in a classical academic conversation. Civilized, educated, eloquent and enlightening. It is thanks to academics like yourselves (who still have critical minds and post their work publicly) that in this turbulent age of malaise and manufactured outrage, I have received a better education than my degree provided me a decade ago. Descartes classic "I think therefore I am", I have taken and reversed to be more applicable to myself: "I am therefore I must think." I prefer to "think" about the matters that you both discuss. Once again, Thank You Doctors. Sit scientia mentis tuae sapientiam in cordibus nostris colens.

That is how you conduct a conversation. A Historian and a Psychologist managing to combine their understanding without interference.

I appreciate how JP attempts to reiterate NF's comments after he has spoken. More interviewers should do this. I think NF makes some excellent points about apocalyptic thinking and the difficulty of political decision making.

“I am a lapsed atheist.” I didn’t see that coming! What a terrific conversation. It was like watching two heavyweight boxers. Then they started doing a beautiful waltz together. Well done guys.

Am I the only one who found this conversation deep and personally challenging, but laughed hysterically when Dr Ferguson declared he was a lapsed atheist and church goer at the end? So good Dr Peterson!! Thank you!!!

I'm am so glad that I stumbled across Jordan Peterson by watching an interview with Dr. Oz. I knew nothing of Dr. Peterson. I knew of Dr. Niall Ferguson through watching C-Span. These brilliant minds together on the subject of the Apocalypse which delve deeper into Revelation, more Biblical content but yet not being dogmatic is brilliant. Thank you.

PhD American history here. I am just beginning to appreciate Dr. Ferguson's work. Thanks, Dr. Peterson, for bringing him into the conversation of "who we are, and where the hell are we going?"

I started watching here and then finished it on the daily wire, and I found his conclusion at the end, that Christianity has historically been the greatest bulwark against communism, Marxism, fascism, and totalitarianism, to be extremely profound. Psalm 92: 5-6 "O Lord, how great are Your works! Your thoughts are very deep. A senseless man does not know, Nor does a fool understand this." The more one understands and studies history and the Bible, the more one sees that the only hope for humanity is the Lord Jesus Christ. It's encouraging to see these two men look at history more honestly than many, and to see honestly the truth of God that becomes clear with the study of history. I hope in the future that they both become saved and born again Christians. ❤️✝️

An interesting aspect of the tower of babel is that it has a direction. It's moving towards " the throne of the most high' which means it's " progressing" toward " heaven" while simultaneously getting further away from its own foundation. Taking its history, it's people, and the very soil in which it sits, for granted. It's an "escape plan" of sorts but a perfect metaphor for how cultures descend into utopian delusions instead of embracing our role as Stuards of the earth and of each other. Without humility, we compete with our own offspring, and lose our ability to share a common history and narrative.

Wow! This was not only an absolutely fascinating discussion, but also a completely surprising end to the discussion. 😲😃😌 Bravo! 👏🏻

This was great. Throughout their discussion on all of the topics facing society that are all framed end of times issues, I couldn't help but constantly think of Elon's recent statement calling out what I believe Jordan and NIall were also covering and that's the issue of far too many only concerned with looking virtuous while actually doing and incentivizing evil, division, and destructiveness .