Lyrics The Adventure of Truth - Akira the Don , Jordan B. Peterson

You know, one of the things that revolutionary movements
Have to offer to young people is, a sense of romantic adventure
I mean if your'e working at 7-Eleven in a dead end job
Then you're offered an adventure, the chance to demonstrate dramatically for a Messianic cause
Especially if you're young that's gonna' call to something deep inside you and excite you
Because everyone needs a higher purpose and that longing can be addressed by romantically inclined ideologues
But there are better ways of addressing that longing
I believe there's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth

There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth)

There's a tremendous adventure in that, it's a demanding ethical striving
And it's a form of responsibility to pay attention to what you say, and to only say that you believe to be true
And there is insane adventure in that because you have no idea what's going to happen if you do that
You entice people into adopting ethical responsibility by pointing out to them in story and graphs, to the degree you're capable by example, that there isn't anything more interesting or meaningful that they can possibly do

There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth)

And I think that's part of the reason why my books and lectures have proved popular
I'm making a case for some things I suppose that you might regard as obvious, at least when viewed from a certain perspective
When I went talking to large live audiences, I noted that one topic in particular would bring the audience to a dead silent halt constantly and that was when I made a rhetorical case for the relationship between responsibility and meaning

You need a meaning in life, you need a purpose to sustain you through the catastrophe of life, through the suffering of life
You need a meaning, it's not optional, and the deeper the meaning the better
And it's definitely the case that people find that meaning primarily in the adoption of responsibility
And that case isn't being made well in our culture, especially not to young people
There's a hunger, a mass hunger for that idea
It's better than happiness that meaning, it's deeper the happiness
Happiness is fleeting (and suffering requires a sustaining meaning)

There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth)
There's tremendous adventure in doing something like telling the truth (telling the truth baby)

The meaning that comes along with the adoption of heavy responsibility that's sustaining through good times and bad
It's always, it's always the case that the best story wins