A 1-hour orientation session
With Dutch veteran of the French Foreign Legion Tim Buining. We talk about his anxieties, family past and struggles with entrepreneurship.
A 2-hour sit down in Dutch
On interviewer Michiel Lieuwma’s show Open Geesten. We discuss the often overlooked influence of the flood myth - the most universal and ancient of all - on the invidivual psychology around climate change, and the conceptually untenable elements surrounding gender dysphoria and transgender ideology.
— April 23, 2023
A 2-hour sit down in Dutch
On interviewer Michiel Lieuwma’s show Open Geesten. We discuss the third level of my therapeutic framework ‘Perennial Philosophy’, the relationship between consciousness and personhood and the binary mechanics underlying political discourse.
— January 27, 2023
A photo/video report about winter life in our wooden cabin deep inside Lithuania’s countryside
We moved here in July and stayed during the heaviest snowfall in 6 years, without:
- Central heating
- Dry wood
- Shower
- Elevated 4x4 car
— December 16, 2022
A 3-hour sit-down in Dutch
On interviewer Michiel Lieuwma’s show Zomergeesten in Berlin. Among many other things we discuss in depth the nature of ideology, my own journey into and out of ideological possession, Mytho-Existentialism (level 2) and Perennial Philosophy (level 3).
— August 22, 2022
Essay/photo report of Biennale 2022, Venice
A few observations after my very first visit to Venice’s Biennale. The art world seems like a kind of Catholic Church. Assistants, curators, directors and patrons serving as deacons, priests, bishops and cardinals, just without a pope at the head and without actually knowing what it sells.
But amidst all those church-like oddities, the ornamented status games, favour trading and ideology, they somehow did manage to pull off this genuine spectacle.
— April 24, 2022
“Life without truth is hell”
Peterson presents his “hypothesis of faith”: the thesis that whatever happens as a result of carefully articulated truth, is by definition the best thing that could have happened - no matter how it looks. Still strong stuff.
— January 22, 2018
The implicit moral thesis in Gladiator
A segment in which we discuss my thesis that a righteous man whose wife and son have been murdered and who has been reduced to abject slavery, suffers less than an emperor of the known world who has everything except virtue.
— January 7, 2019
“Weak men can’t be virtuous”
A segment in which we discuss my thesis that ‘weakness’ can be conceptualized as ‘lacking the options and skills to sin’. That lack creates resentment, which in turn creates corruption. This can make weak men very dangerous, but not in a way that commands respect.
— January 22, 2018
US minister reflects on Gladiator thesis
and Dutch platform GeenStijl, for which I’ve been an editor since 2015. GeenStijl is no stranger to controversy, and Paul VanderKlay tries to make sense of why - out of all places - such a platform is the place where this conversation is happening.
— January 11, 2019
A 2-hour interview with Peterson
Where we discuss my distillation of his work:
- The centrality of the hero’s myth
- Role of the logos during the hero’s narrative
- Making the right sacrifices
- Orienting on highest goal you can conceive
- Recognising and minimising your persona
A 1,5-hour interview with Peterson
An online sit-down where we discuss the precursory role of art in the emergence and articulation of complex ideas, the Jungian concept of individuation and, obviously, Dragon Ball Z ;).
— January 7, 2019