Akira The Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - The Wave lyrics

I've really been trying to make
Sense of this, ey, because
Well, what the hell's going on?
Why am I selling out 3
000 person auditoriums
I use the stage let's say
As a opportunity in real time to think
I've been thinking
Well, if you're surfing you
Don't confuse yourself with

The wave the wave
The wave that's a real mistake
You might be on top of the
Wave but you're not the wave the wave
The wave that's a real mistake
You might be on top of the
Wave but you're not the wave

I think this long-form discussion
And the public hunger for that
Is best conceptualized like that
There's a technological revolution
It's a deep one online video and audio
Immediately accessible to everyone all
Over the world it's turned the spoken word
Into a tool
That has the same reach as the printed word
So it's a Gutenberg Revolution in the
Domain of video and audio
And it might be even deeper than
The original Gutenberg Revolution because
It isn't obvious how many people can read
But lots of people can listen

The wave the wave
The wave you might be on top of the
Wave but you're not the wave the wave
The wave you might be on top of the
Wave but you're not the wave

I mean, we got a little bit of that with TV
Right? And you got a little bit
A bit of it with radio
But there was bandwidth limitations that were
Really stringent especially in TV
Where you could get 30 seconds
If you were lucky
And six minutes if you were stellar
To elucidate a complicated argument, so
You can't do that
Everything gets compressed to a
Kind of oversimplified entertainment
But now, all of a sudden
We have this form for long-form discussion
Real long-form discussion
Turns out that everyone is way
Smarter than we thought

The wave the wave
The wave you might be on top of the
Wave but you're not the wave the wave
The wave you might be on top of the wave
But you're not the wave the people
The forefront of this are
Being cascaded forward
Like a surfer on a giant wave
On this technological transformation
It's necessary to keep your ego under control
With regards to the people coming to see
Me the proper attitude towards that
And I think this is true for
Any performer is – gratitude
You bloody well be happy
Those people are there
And you should never think there's something
Spectacularly special about yourself
That's attracting these people and that
Somehow you're above them and
They're your fans or
There's this real power differential even
Though that sort of manifests
It'self because people are so
Happy to see you
That's a dangerous pathway and
I truly am ridiculously
Overwhelmed and grateful and
Happy and pleased
That all these people show up