The Vikings Went "Berserk" For This Reason - Jordan Peterson

if you're if you have the same orientation towards other people at four that you did when you were two especially if you're tilt a little in the aggressive Direction you will not make friends and you will be isolated and alienated for the rest of your life so that 2-year-old impulsiveness that has its place two it starts to modify radically at three and it better be fixed by four and the reason for that is that you have to integrate yourself into the social World which means in the case of children it means well you want to

have friends and so the reason you're you're you're disciplining your child isn't to teach them that what they're doing is bad you know in that simple in in that simple sense that you might interpret punishment it's like no you need to be more sophisticated well why well you have to be able to take turns well why well cuz you no one like you otherwise well what's the problem with that well first of all we're hypers social like you can punish Psychopaths by putting them in isolation that's how social human beings are you take the most

antisocial human beings there are and you can punish them by making them be alone right so that's how social we are so you want to you you're you're modeling for your child a strategy of of even satisfaction for his own basic drives that takes context in the most sophisticated possible way into account right and that is see as soon as you understand that that's the fostering of like a meta personality in the child which would really be the personality of that child the integrated personality you start to understand how that might be related to religious

thinking because religious thinking is the attempt to formulate something approximating an ideal personality right now that's attributed there that's often attributed elements of the Divine but there's reasons for that that we could go into but as soon as you know that the basic structure even at the lower motivational level is personality well then that that changes the way you view the brain look a lot of archaic deities are motivational systems could you give me an example the God of War Mars that's rage that was a God that the Vikings in invoked before they went into

battle they would use ammonita mascaria and they imitated Predators like from an early age this is a acetool by the way folks has two general receptor systems the nicotinic system which is a stimulant but also relaxes you that's why people like nicotine um and then the muscarinic system which um creates uh uh changes in our self-perception and perception of the things around us um it's not so much a stimulant as it um it's a I would Veer towards a almost like a psychedelic or an it has a a um uh an effect of making us

less fearful and um and intrigued it's a radically atypical psychedelic yeah it's hard to describe hard to describe it's outside the the LSD cybin mcin domain so people would take this this as an agent the Vikings would take this as an agent before going into sure because what they were trying to do is make the personality of Rage superordinate with no pain right and they practiced that from a very early age so the Vikings worked themselves up they went berserk that means to wear the be shirt right they transformed themselves so to speak into Predators

they would narrow the context within which their um I'm calling them impulses but you're giving a more sophisticated explanation for them within which their the aggressive impulse the strategically aggressive impulse could be channeled right because that full reain given full reain right they were experts at that to be able to decapitate people eviscerate people do whatever it was that they needed to do in order to win and and to suppress their own feelings of pain yeah well then you could imagine in a way that what they were doing was bringing the full resources of the

Court to and placing them at the service of the rage circuits in the hypothalamus like we have no idea what that would be like no there aren't we don't do that we have no idea what a human being who does that is like if they're expert at it you uh you you would give you nightmares to think about it deeply