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Consider the overwhelming success as a 
Patreon account the money raised by 

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rebel.
What will you be doing with the 

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contributions?
Well,

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that's great.
Alright,

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so I've got a couple of things to say 
about that.

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So the first one is,
you know,

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I would say a number of people have been
attempt and not an overwhelming number,

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but a number of people have been 
attempting to take me to task for the 

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fact that my Patreon support has been,
let's call it overwhelmingly successful.

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And so I'll tell you how I formulate my 
response to that.

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The first is I'm generating almost all 
of my content and making it completely 

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publicly accessible so it's free,
right?

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And,
and so that way I'm bringing,

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I think awareness of psychological 
issues to a very large number of people.

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And so far at the moment my view count 
on Youtube is up to $30 million and I 

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did a little bit of calculations last 
week to try to figure out what the total

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view count was,
um,

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for,
for the cuts of my lectures that have 

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been appearing on Youtube.

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And then the political material as well.
And I think it's upward of $50 million 

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and so I'm making psychological and 
political content available to $50 

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million people.
And so,

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you know,
that seems like a reasonable thing to do

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now.
People who don't agree with what I'm 

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saying might differ,
but I think that could be separated from

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the educational content as well.
So,

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and then with regards to the Patriot on 
subscribers,

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every single person who's doing that is 
doing it entirely voluntarily.

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And I also set up that Patriot on 
account long before any of this 

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political material emerged.
So.

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And my sense with the patron viewers,
and you guys can clue me in if I'm wrong

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about this,
is that there's two things happening.

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One is it enables people who are not 
very happy about the current political 

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situation in the west to to,
to contribute to something that might be

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at least to some degree attempting to 
stem the tide of such things as toxic 

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political correctness and second,
that it enables people to support my 

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endeavors,
to bring general education to a wider 

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audience.
And that seems like a good deal for 

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everyone.
And,

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you know,
you might say,

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well,
it's a particularly good deal for me and

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I'm certainly not complaining about 
what's happening,

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but I would also point out that it 
hasn't exactly been a straightforward 

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thing.
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um,

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so I guess if anyone else wants to try 
it,

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they're more than welcome to.
Now having said that,

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um,
I would also say that the real issue 

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here,
and I think this is the fact that this 

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isn't self evident,
is also a commentary on the toxicity of 

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our culture at the moment,
is that it actually isn't the issue.

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The issue isn't really how much money 
you have.

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I think that that's a resentful and at 
relatively vicious way of judging 

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someone else.
I think the issue is what you do with 

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the money when you have it.
And you know,

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I'm,
I'm not a particularly hedonistic person

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and I'm not 25 years old,
you know,

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I'm 55 years old and I'm going to be a 
grandfather and a couple of months,

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you know,
thank God for that.

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Um,
and what I want to do with that money is

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to do the best things I can possibly 
think of to do with it.

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And one of the things I'm thinking 
about,

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I started this biblical series and a lot
of that's helped thankful thanks to you 

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guys on Patrion because that enabled me 
to generate the capital that was 

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necessary to rent the theater because 
for 12 lectures that was a $60,000

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investment about that,
something like that.

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And then another $8,000
for the,

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for the camera work.
And that had to be basically dealt with 

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upfront.
So it was a reasonable financial risks.

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Now I've been crazily fortunate in that 
theater tickets have also sold out,

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so it looks like the biblical series 
will pay for itself with some extra 

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leftover.
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you know,
I'm pretty happy about that because that

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gives me some more working capital.
And then you might say,

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well what am I going to do with the 
capital?

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Well,
I'm going to continue doing the sorts of

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things that I'm already doing.
I want to do a series on the hundred 

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greatest books of the western Canon.
For example.

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I want to move genuine humanities 
education out of the universities where 

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it isn't being taught anyways as far as 
I can tell online where people can 

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access it freely.
I'm talking to a wide variety of people 

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right now about trying to do that in a 
more formal sense so that the 

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possibility for widespread university 
education can be universally accessible 

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and one of the things we're trying to 
crack is the problem of how to teach 

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people to write.

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Because that's a real troublesome thing.
And by the way,

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you know you guys,
if you go onto my website,

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Jordan Peterson.com
and you go into courses and you go into 

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psychology for 30.
If you look carefully there,

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you'll see that there's an essay rubric 
that tells people how to write and 

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actually that's become quite popular.
And so if you're interested in how to 

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learn to write,
I've written something about that 

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already and we're going to make a piece 
of software that's going to help people 

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learn to write.
And so I've got plans for how to make 

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writing education broadly accessible to 
people,

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so I would like to make humanities 
education of the highest order broadly 

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accessible to people and I also want to 
teach them how to write and I'm going to

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try to crack the online university 
accreditation problem.

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And so part of the money that,
or a substantial proportion of the money

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that is being donated to me,
let's say,

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or is being offered to me by my monthly 
supporters.

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So that's all of you people is going to 
be going to projects exactly like that.

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And the reason for that is that,
what the hell else would I do with the 

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money?
You know,

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I mean,
to me money is a tool.

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It's not,
it's not the means whereby you develop a

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luxurious lifestyle and spend your time 
burning yourself half to death in the 

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sun and the Caribbean snorting cocaine 
and chasing hookers,

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you know,
it's just,

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that's just not in the cards for me.
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and,
and so I want to devote it towards the 

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sorts of things that I've already been 
pursuing except on a broader scale.

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And so,
you know,

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and I think people like Elan Musk to,
not that I'm comparing myself to Elon 

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Musk,
but I mean he has plenty of money and I 

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mean you really,
somebody's got to have the damn money.

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It might as well be people who have the 
kind of vision that people like he does 

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have because maybe they'll do something 
good for the world.

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I mean I hope his gigafactories produce 
batteries like mad so that we can start 

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to make alternative energy sources 
economically viable and maybe reduce our

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dependence on oil and maybe get 
ourselves out from underneath the thumb 

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of the Saudi Arab.
So that would be a good thing.

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So the monetary issue,
it's,

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it's quite interesting.
It's like it is not that you have the 

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money,
it's what you do with it.

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And so anyways,
those are,

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some of them might plants and that isn't
all of them because I'm going to come up

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with a bunch more plans and I'm going to
try to implement them as rapidly as I 

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possibly can.
I've put my clinical practice on hiatus 

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for the next three months so that I have
a chance to think and I've requested 

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that the university advanced my 
sabbatical by one year,

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so I should have about a year to think 
about what I should be doing with 

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youtube and how I can be promoting broad
public education of the highest quality 

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and that's a really fun problem to solve
and the fact that I'm being supported by

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all of you people on Patrion makes the 
probability that avail to all be able to

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devote my time to that much higher.

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So,
so that's what I'm going to do with it.

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I'm going to do the best things I can 
possibly think of to do with it.

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And uh,
hopefully that'll work.

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And so far it seems to be going well.
So,

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um,
yeah,

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I mean I've been taking them back quite 
a bit by the.

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I mean it's not surprising that the 
people who've been trying to take me 

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down,
let's say are squawking and bitching 

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because I happened to be a generating a 
fairly reasonable income from this.

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Although I don't think about it as an 
income,

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as I already said,
I think about it as a,

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as a toolkit for pursuing more 
interesting things.

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It's like if that's the best they can do
with regards to continuing to tarnish my

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name,
well then let them,

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let them go right ahead about that and I
think the proof is in the outcome and 

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the biblical series and that's a direct 
consequence of the Patriot and support 

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that seems to be going like mad.
I think you know,

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about 500,000
people have watched the videos so far 

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with another who knows,
tens of thousands of people listening to

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the podcasts and that's just a bloody 
miracle that,

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that many people would be interested in 
what I consider the fundamental 

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foundation for any true humanities 
education.

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So great.
We'll build from there.

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And so that's,
that's what I'm gonna do with the money.

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So.
And if people don't like that,

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then they don't have to donate or they 
don't have to subscribe.

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It's hardly like it's mandatory.