022 - An Absolute Clusterfuck with Vijay Maharaj

In this episode, I share my conversation with friend and fellow artist, Vijay Maharaj, who I met during some leadership trainings we both did several years ago.

We talk about many things going on in our society and our world today—circa 07/22/23 when this conversation was recorded—and the absolute clusterfuck of it all. 

Follow Vijay on IG @viijaylm.

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Topics covered/touched upon in this episode: 

• How I lost the recording of our previous conversation

• The rise and fall of empires through history, cycles of stability and integration and instability and disintegration

• Listening to our inner voice, setting boundaries, and telling people to fuck off

• The trial of Socrates

• The horrific massacres that happened in the 20th century and the ensuing (and continuing/escalating) standoff of mutually assured destruction

• How deeply people have been traumatized and manipulated with fear and propaganda these past few years

• The importance of having people in your life who you can have conversations with where you disagree and not have it threaten the friendship

• The problems with text-based communication, and how the filters we listen through affect how we perceive communication

• The importance of filling your cup up first and stopping people pleasing

• The need for us to find ways to live with each other despite our differences and to actually cultivate tolerance

• The controversy surrounding Jordan Peterson, compelled speech, what he and his actual philosophies are about, and how we cannot have free societies without free speech

• The history of psychological epidemics and how they disproportionately affect women due to biological and psychological vulnerabilities

• The systematic reviews done and stepping back from the so-called “affirmative model“ of gender medicine by Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the UK due to the poor quality of evidence for its efficacy and clear evidence for its dangers and long term repercussions, especially related to minors

• How people get wrapped up into ideologies because they attach their own identity to a set of beliefs and ideas leading people to attack and demonize those who disagree with them

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Other things mentioned/to check out: 

• Honestly podcast with data driven historian, David Turchin, Are We Living Through ‘End Times’?

• Patrick Bet-David / Valuetainment

• JBP’s conversation with Chloe Cole and how therapists are neglecting their duties, particularly when it comes to gender dysphoria

• JBP updates on Ontario College of Psychologists case against him:      - 01/12/23         - 08/24/23       - 01/23/24

• Convicted rapists and murderers self identifying as women to get into women’s prisons/stay out of men’s prisons

• Kellie-Jay Keen’s Let Women Speak events and the violent trans rights activists that show up to try to shut them down, such as what happened in New Zealand

• Layla Jane, who was given a double mastectomy at 13 years old

• Jordan Peterson joke from comedian Aaron Chen’s standup special, If Weren’t Filmed, Nobody Would Believe

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