The Miracle

I have been listening to a passel of Jordan Peterson Youtube videos. One of his common themes is that, because life is filled with suffering and tainted by malevolence, and we are born sinners, he is amazed at how well-behaved people are in most of United States and Canada, as the system works, people are peaceful, lawabiding, orderly and gracious. The system works and the power is on, and things get done and the system operates smoothly without a hitch.

Jordan refers to this as a miracle that we must not take for granted, for civilized behavior is but skin deep, and to underestimate the faith, ethos, constitutional republicanism, individual discipline and self-control, the level of cooperation--all point to a functioning civil society--can allow the system to detriorate, declining into a dog-eat-dog urban jungle of all against all.

By allowing the individual to be sovereign and free, we escaped tribalism and collectivism. We must realize the system works pretty well, but it requires a lot of thought, preparation and personal effort from all of its citizens to remain civil, quiet, peaceful, orderly and awful. That achievement is not automatic or natural, and postmodernist collectivists hunger after revolution to overthrow our magnificent American way of life.

They are filled with ingratitude, rage, resentment and hatred. They will use violence and mob bullying to gain their ends, and they must be forcefully opposed and defeated, never allowed to have their way.