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He takes the view that one should build outwards from small-scale personal choices towards larger social and political questions. If you cannot bring peace to your own household, how dare you try to rule a city?
The Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan B Peterson has, in recent years, become an internet celebrity, producing a slew of videos and. 'Here's a rule that's catnip for right-wingers everywhere: do not bother children while Pet a Cat - digested read illustration for 12 Rules for Life.
As a good student of Jung, he likes an archetype, ideally one he can ground in biology. Gender is absolutely not fluid. The big duality in 12 Rules for Life is the opposition of order and chaos.
It is singular and masculine. These things are bad enough in themselves, but they are chiefly perfidious because they form a sort of gateway drug to totalitarianism. In a podcast interview he explains:. Why would I put my job on the line to have an opinion about compelled pronouns? Certainly better than you.
Things are going to be terrible. Oedipus killed his Dad. You may well kill yours. Face up to the real horrors of the world. Want to know why the world is falling apart? Let boys do boy things and girls do girl things. Nowhere in the Bible does God say anything about this trans nonsense. So back off, ladies, and give us men a break.
So I really am scraping the barrel now. If you see a cat, stroke it. You might feel better. And if there are no cats, pet something else.
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