Akira The Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - Waves of Contempt lyrics

I’ve listened carefully to your Cain and Abel
Lecture but waves of
Contempt for existence it'self keep
Coming there is a part of me
That revels in riding these waves
But can I harness them for a good? God you
Guys, you ask the hardest questions!

Waves of contempt for existence
It'self keep coming
There’s a part of me that
Revels in riding these waves
But can I harness them for good?
Waves of contempt for existence
It'self keep coming

It’s probably time for a little bit of
Individual psychoanalysis you’re
Generalising, you know, you say waves
Of contempt for existence it'self keep
Coming but I don’t
Believe that that’s exactly right
I’m certainly not
Accusing you of being deceitful, it’s more
Like low resolution my suspicions are
Is that there is a set of
Experiences that you’ve had
That are characteristic
To your own personal life
That have caused you some
Bitterness and some resentment and
That those haven’t
Been thought through usually thinking through
Means trying to take as
Much responsibility for altering
The conditions under which
Those things happened
Going forward into the future as
Possible like the purpose of
Memory is to stop you from doing the same
Stupid things in the future
Right? If you’ve had
Experiences that have made you
Bitter and resentful, or are
Still engaged in experiences that
Are doing that, then you need to do a
Careful micro-analysis of what those
Are and see if you can
See if you can flip your
Attitude in some manner i’m not
Saying this is easy, but the
First thing you could do is
At least figure out what
Those memories are you can kind
Of tell if something
Needs work from a memory perspective
If it occurred more
Than about 18 months ago and when you
Remember it still causes like a
Wave of sadness or anger

What that means is that your brain is still
Targeting that experience as threatening
And unexplored and
What that means is that, in some sense
Part of you that could exist is still
Stuck in that memory because you
Can go back and do a
Careful causal analysis of the
Events that led up to
The unfortunate circumstance and
Try to map out your role
Even if your role is minor there is going
To be things that you could’ve done
Differently to avoid it and that’s what
You need to figure out
For the future i would say
You try to shed all
Your personal resentment, a part of that too
Is to not take things too personally
There’s nothing personal
About the fact that terrible
Things happen to you
I mean unless you’re directly causally
Involved as it says
I believe in the Old Testament
Rains on the just and the unjust alike
The tragedy and difficulty and even
The confrontation with evil are built
Into the structure of
Existence and it’s not aimed
At you personally it
May be the price that we
Pay for existence it'self you
Could say well that price is too high to pay
But if you start thinking that way then you
Make everything much much worse

It seems better to shoulder
Your cross voluntarily
And stumble forward towards the light
That’s the best
Strategy and just because it’s
The best strategy doesn’t
Even necessarily mean it’s always
Going to work
Like this is no optimistic scenario like
A dragon is no optimistic scenario
Confront the dragon, get the gold
And bring it back to share with
The community and you know
That sounds all well and good
But after all it is
A dragon, and many people get eaten by
Them the myth basically says, well
Your best bet is to open your
Eyes and speak the truth and
Look forward forthrightly and
Confront the hydras that are
Raising their heads
And their tentacles constantly to frighten
You and stop you, and to fight the tyranny
Of the social structure
When it’s oppressing you unduly and
That’s what you have to
Do but I would say if that contempt is there
Man, that’s really worth digging
Into that would be
The place where you discover
The Jungian shadow
Because you discover that contempt is
An unbelievably destructive force
It would be useful for you to try to
Think about, you can use fantasy to do this
It’s like ok if you let that contempt
Manifest it'self fully in like a
Dream or a daydream and then you
Let it go on a rampage
What’s the vision exactly? I mean is it the
Destruction of the town? Is it
The destruction of the country?
Do you want the entire world to blow up?

Are there specific people that
You’re angry at? Or
Maybe you’re angry at yourself?
Those waves of
Contempt are unarticulated elements
Of experience and
They’re part of your shadow so
Can you harness them for good? Well
The more you understand your
Dark urges the more
Likely you are to be able to
Regulate and control them and to
Use them as part of your power a person who
Has authority is someone
Who’s integrated the dangerous parts
Of themselves and that’s
Part of what gives their words gravitas and
Weight and so, yes
I think that you can harness them for
Good, and I think that’s the
Right thing to do, but it
Will involve a fair bit
Of painful soul searching