Nikos Sotirakopoulos: Life is Not Suffering
“We can succeed in this world. This is not a vale of tears. Life is not suffering, as Jordan Peterson would put it. We can succeed and our happiness is possible. And not only is it possible, it’s good… that your life is your highest value, your own life.”
Nikos is an author, senior lecturer in social sciences at York St John Universtity and director of the European Ayn Rand Institute.
Now, i have a problem with this conversation… namely that it is way too short. Nikos is a busy man and I had a strict hour with him in Warsaw. We did, however manage to cover a fair bit of ground in that hour. Brutalist architecture, collectivism vs individualism, the culture wars, Ayn Rand’s philosophy, martial arts, what Jordan Peterson gets wrong, Joe Rogan and the medium of podcasting, political correctness and anti-capitalism, to name but a few of the subjects covered.
Nikos is an excellent orator. This kind of conversation leaves me not only well informed but also rejuvenated and I hope that you get to have the same experience too.
Enjoy the conversation.