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I'm Stephen Blackwood. I'm part of a small team of people founding a new university in

Savannah, Georgia. I'm the president of that new institution. I'm here today at Cambridge

University, an ancient, agust and beautiful institution. And I have the great pleasure

today to have with me, Dr. Jordan Peterson, professor of psychology of the University of Toronto,

as I think it is safe to say an unignorable figure of our time.

Jordan, it's a real pleasure to have you here today. Thank you.

Thanks. Pleasure to be here, this unbelievable place.

Jordan and I are going to talk today about what he has called the inflection point. And

my hope is that that conversation will lead us into a discussion of the possibilities for

cultural renewal, indeed the possibilities for the renewal, the renaissance of a more

fully human culture. Jordan, I think you've called the inflection point, or called our

cultural temporal moment, to kind of inflection point. What do we start there? What is the inflection

point? Well, I think we're deciding, we're trying

to decide if there's such a thing as a direction to move forward to into the future. That's

what it looks like to me. On the one hand, we're making tremendous technological progress

in all sorts of directions simultaneously. And that seems to be having mostly positive

effects, especially economically, especially on a global scale. And on the other hand,

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