Jordan Peterson is an unlikely Youtube celebrity. The Canadian psychologist lectures about things like responsibility. Yet millions of young people watch his videos and line up to hear his speeches and buy his book 12 Rules for Life. It was number one on the Amazon bestseller list for a month. —— Don't miss the weekly video from Stossel TV. Sign up here: https://johnstossel.activehosted.com/f/1​ ---- John Stossel asks, what could make a book about responsibility take off? "People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom," Peterson tells Stossel. "There's just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story." The other side of the story, says Peterson, is that "it's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure." Peterson instead advises: "Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth... That's the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life." Many leftists hate Peterson. They attack him for saying people should be "dangerous." Peterson explains to Stossel that he means people should have the capacity to be dangerous, but control it. "People who teach martial arts know this full well," Peterson says. "If you learn a martial art you learn to be dangerous, but simultaneously you learn to control it." Advice about that, and responsibility, bring Peterson big audiences. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ijWQyd57g0

If politicians are frightened by a protest, some will take your money and your rights. ———— To make sure you see the new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— If the government doesn’t like your speech, or your business, you may face financial tyranny. Truckers protesting Canada's COVID vaccine rules had their bank accounts frozen. “You do have to have a bank account, really, to be able to live,” says law professor Todd Zywicki. Freezing accounts ended the protests quickly. “It’s a very big threat to a free society,” says Zywicki. “We need to tolerate people saying things we don’t like.” But politicians often don’t. If they can silence protest by grabbing your money, they will. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXWeO6kgSHY

Hollywood constantly insists that it’s not diverse enough. -------- Don't miss a single video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://johnstossel.activehosted.com/f/1 --------- Will Smith warns of “a systematic bias that needs to be addressed.” John Stossel says " they never talk about: diversity of thought.” Hollywood movies are full of anti-capitalist themes. In Avatar, GREEDY miners will destroy a planet for valuable ore. In Amazon’s new Jack Ryan, Socialism is not to blame for Venezuela’s problems. Venezuela’s dictator is an anti-leftist nationalist. The “good” Venezuelan politician is a “social justice” advocate. Stossel points out that “Hollywood’s documentaries also celebrate the left.” RBG, for example, puts Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg on a pedestal. “Justice Ginsberg is impressive. But so is Justice Thomas. Would Hollywood ever praise him?” asks Stossel. Hollywood’s condescension toward anyone not on the left frustrates the few actors who lean right. Most fear saying anything because they’d lose work. But actor Kevin Sorbo talks about it. “All of a sudden … less and less calls. My agent said we'd better part ways and I went, ‘wow, I made a lot of money for these guys,” recalls Sorbo. “Did you ask him, why do we have to part ways?” asks Stossel. “I knew why. They told me why. They were pretty straight forward about it,” responds Sorbo. Kevin Sorbo was even banned from a comic-book convention, East Coast Comicon. He says, “[Hollywood has] the most anti-tolerant people and hateful people that we have right now.” Sorbo continues, “Every movie I’ve seen now, every TV show I seem to see, doesn't matter what it is, there's always some point, someplace, where they'll … degrade anybody who's conservative or Republican.” His response was to produce his own films, like God’s Not Dead, a Christian film that cost two million dollars but returned 140 million. Hollywood is ABSURDLY biased. Maybe market competition will bring some balance.” ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ASa0Cq2wx4

Lots of people hate capitalism. They want socialism instead. They say capitalism hurts the poor. That's just not true. Johan Norberg explains how capitalism saves lives and why socialism always fails. ———— To get our new weekly video from Stossel TV, sign up here: https://www.johnstossel.com/#subscribe ———— Swedish historian and author, Johan Norberg also dispels the myth that Sweden is a socialist success. In many ways, Sweden is more free market than America. Norberg explains the many benefits that capitalism offers - it even makes people less lonely, more generous, and less racist. Here’s our full discussion on capitalism, the degrowth movement, “Scandinavian socialism” and more: ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq3hWmZTvaw