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Well I'll tell you a couple of strange things that the things that I don't really understand the first is when we've done the analysis
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Of the effects of the future authoring program it has had a different
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It's differential impact on men and it's had a particularly
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differential impact on what I would call excluded men, and so that would be non-western ethnic minority men or
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or
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What?
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Majority, man who are doing very well so for example at Mohawk College
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The future authoring program had a particularly robust effect on
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Mohawk College students who were men who hadn't done very well in high school
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And who hadn't picked a major that had a destination a career destination at its end
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so you can imagine those people are they have an ambiguous relationship with the idea of education and
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They're not oriented specifically towards a goal. They're not very motivated
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Now why did it have a differential effect on men?
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That's a good question
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Well first of all the women are doing better
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so
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It might just be a matter of the fact that it does better for people who aren't doing as well and at the moment most
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Of them are men
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I don't believe I think that might be part of it, but I don't believe that's all of it
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I think that part of the reason that women are doing better is cuz they're agreeable and
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So if a system sets out a structure and says here's a pathway to attainment
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The women won't rebel against that they'll go along with it and that's working very well for them at the moment
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the men especially the men on the disagreeable end of the distribution
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And there's way more men on the district disagreeable end of the distribution, then there are women right
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That's what you get from if you look at overlapping normal distributions, so there's the male district female distribution for agreeableness
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male distribution for agreeableness tremendous overlap
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Okay, women are higher all the really agreeable people are women all the really disagreeable people are men
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And maybe the real differences occur at the extremes right so so and it's it's a very interesting side effect of overlapping
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Distributions, so they people can be mostly the same
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But that can still produce
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radical differences
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Disagreeable men won't do anything they don't want to do
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They just say up yours I'll go home and play video games
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With you no. I'm not listening to your stupid and
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Why should I work for you? I'll just go have fun
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I'll do my own thing
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I don't think they're motivated and so then if you take the men who are like that and you say, okay. What do you want?
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You can have what you want
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But you have to figure out what it is
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So then they write down what they want they think oh hey well that might be worth having so maybe I'll put some effort into
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It that's what it looks like to me now
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You know that's weak evidence, and this is a weak argument, but I'm trying to stretch out my understanding to account for this
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But I'll tell you something else that's really weird. I don't understand this either, so
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More than 90% of the people who watch my videos on YouTube are men now
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that's weird because not about 80% of psychology students are women so that is not what you would expect right you would expect that the
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Majority of them would be women and you might say well
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it's because of the political stance I've taken and I thought well that's possible so I went looked at the demographic data because I have
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That well before I did any of the political videos
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85% of my viewers were men so it's actually increased a bit, it's increased by 6% and that's not trivial
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But it was still overwhelmingly men, so that was interesting. I thought what the hell
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why is that exactly and then now I've been watching crowds when I've been talking to them and
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The crowds that have come to see me in person this happened at the University of Toronto free speech debate
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and I actually noticed it and
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Commented on it before the debate took place because I was talking about intrinsic differences between men and women and I looked around the room
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And I thought hmm hey 80% of the people in this room are men
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So I had all the men's women and women stand up and then all the men stand up
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I said look like here's a natural experiment
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For some reason 80% of the people who showed up to this or men now everybody thought
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I was kind of cracked to to do that and it was a risk
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You know what and all right, but I thought no weather something going on here
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And then what's interesting now is that every public appearance that I've made that's related to the sort of topics that we're discussing is
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Overwhelmingly men it's like it's like
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85 to 90%
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And so I thought wow that's weird like what the hell's going on here exactly, and then the other thing. I've noticed is that?
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I've been talking a lot to the crowds that I've been talking to not about rights
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But about responsibility right because he can't have the bloody. What are you doing? You can't have the conversation about rights without the
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conversation about responsibility because your rights are my
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Responsibility that's what they are technically so you just can't have only half of that discussion
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And we're only having half that discussion and the question is well
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What the hell are you leaving out if you only have that half of the discussion and the answer is what you're leaving out
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Responsibility and then the question is well
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What are you leaving out if you're leaving out responsibility and the answer might be well, maybe you're leaving out the meaning of life
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That's what it looks like to me. It's like here you are
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Suffering away, what makes it worthwhile, right?
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you know you're completely out you're completely you have no idea what you're
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You it's almost impossible to describe how bad an idea that is
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Responsibility
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That's what gives life meaning
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It's like lift a load
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Then you can tolerate yourself right because look at your useless
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Easily hurt easily killed. Why should you have any self-respect?
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That's the story of the fall
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Pick something up and carry it pick make it heavy enough so that you can think yeah well
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Useless as I am at least I could move that from there to there well
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What's really cool about that is that when I talk to these crowds about this the man's eyes light up, and that's very good
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I've seen that phenomena because I've been talking about this mythological material for a long time and I can see when I'm watching crowds people
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You know their eyebrows lift their eyes let light up because I put something together for them. That's what mythological stories
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Do so I'm not taking responsibility for that
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That's what the stories do so I save the story people go click click click
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You know in their eyes light up, but this responsibility thing
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That's a whole new order of this is that young men are so hungry for that it is unbelievable
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And one of the things I've been talking to some of the people who've been
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Running for the conservative leadership in Canada, and I've been talking to them about well the difficulties
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They have communicating with young people because conservatives
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What what the hell are they going to sell to young people right because being conservative is something that happens when you're older they can
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sell responsibility
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No, one's selling it and the thing is for men. There's nothing about responsibility
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You know I was watching The Simpsons the other day
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I watched the first Simpsons episode
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And I deconstructed it and so it's really interesting so what happens in the first Simpson episode is that?
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It's Christmas and homer and Marge are going to buy some Christmas presents, but Homer doesn't get his Christmas bonus
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And so he's absolutely crushed by that and that
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Actually is a recurring theme in The Simpsons where Homer loses his job or something like that or can tonight make enough money
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He's completely crushed even though he's kind of useless bumbling
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Laughing fool of a guy. You know the thing that gives that show its soul is that he's still oriented towards his family
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That's what makes him honorable is that?
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Foolish as he is he's decided to adopt
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Responsibility for his family and to try to bear that and so he's not he's a holy fool
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He's not a complete fool
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And it's so interesting watching the story because he suffers dreadfully as a consequence of not being able to fulfill his responsibilities well
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That's for men
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Women have their sets of responsibilities. They're not the same
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Right because they're complicated because women of course have to take primary
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Responsibility for for having infants at least but then also for caring for them there they're structured differently than men
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For biological necessity even if it's not a psychological issue and it's also partly a psychological issue women know what they have to do
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men have to figure out what they have to do, and if they have nothing worth living for then they stay Peter Pat and
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Why the hell not?
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because the alternative to valued responsibility is
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Impulsive
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low-class
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Pleasure and you saw that in the Pinocchio story right that's Pleasure Island, it's like well
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Why lift the load if there's nothing in it for you?
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That's another thing that we're doing to men. That's a very bad idea and to boys it's like
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You're pathological and oppressive. It's like fine. Then why the hell am I going to play
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That's that if that's the situation if I get no credit for bearing responsibility
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It could bloody well be sure I'm not going to bear it
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but then you know your life is useless and meaningless and you have you're not you're full of self-contempt and nihilism and and
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That's not good, and so that's why I think all right
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That's what I think's going
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At a deeper level with regards to men needing this direction a man has to decide that he's going to do something
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He has to decide that yeah, well. You know partly what you're trying to do in the future authoring processes say, okay well
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What's your highest value?
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Right it's the star. It's like. Okay. What are you aiming for you can decide man, but you know there's some criteria
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It should be good for you. It should be good for you in a way that facilitates your moving forward
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Maybe it should be good for you in a way. That's also good for the family in the community it should cover the the
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domain of life I mean there's constraints on what you should regard as a value, but you but within those constraints you have the
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Choice you have choice
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Well the thing is is that people will carry a heavy load if they get to pick the goddamn load
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So and they think well I won't carry any load
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It's like okay fine
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But then you're like the sled dog that doesn't have a sled to pull you're just gonna
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You're gonna tear pieces out of your own legs because you're bored. You know you need people are pack animals
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They need they need to pull against a weight, and and that's not true for everyone
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it's not true particularly say for low conscientious people I mean maybe they're open and creative or extroverted and some other things but for the
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for the typical person
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They'll eat themselves they'll eat themselves up unless they have a load this is why there's such an opiate epidemic among
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Dispossessed white middle-aged guys who are unemployed in the u.s.. It's like they lose their job. They're done
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Right they despise themselves. They develop chronic pain syndromes and depression and the chronic pain is treated with opiates
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It's like that's what we're doing so
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Yeah, that's what it looks like to me is you you have to and it's so interesting to watch the young men when you talk
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To them about responsibility, there's a god damn thrilled about it. It just blows me away. It's like really. That's what's that's the counterculture
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Grow the hell up and do something useful really I could do that oh
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I'm so excited by that idea no one ever mentioned that before it's like rights rights rights rights Jesus
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It's it's it's appalling. It's a it's and and I feel that that's deeply felt by the people who are who are coming out to
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To listen to these sorts of things - they're they've had enough of that
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So and they better have because it's it's a non-productive mode of being
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Responsibility man that's where the meeting in life is so
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