I have not yet started to read Jordan Peterson's great books but I have been listening for hours to his Youtube lectures and interviews. He is very Mavellonialist in his line of thinking.
He is not a proclaimed egoist like I am, but it is implied in that that he asserts that the core Western idea is that the individual is sovereign. He seems to recommend that one is to lead a good life, and the best way to achieve this is to lead an ethical, meaningful life of responsibility as an individuator.
When we are stupid, blind, uninformed--nonindividuating and group-living--we lead lives of nihilism and needless suffering. We get no encouragement on how to live meaningful, fulfilling lives in this collectivist age of no metanarratives and postmodernist Marxism. To refute the return to tribalism, that natural, hurtful natural state of existence, we must live as truthful and honest a life as we can.
It requires nerve to lead a good life, and do one's best but that is what we are called to be.
Jordan does not like to talk about God, and that is a mistake. The Mother and the Father exist, and are most willing and available to help us get through each day.
Jordan regrets that we postmodernist Westerners have forsaken our modernists roots--our traditional ethos with the basic axioms and presuppositions that the individual is sovereign, that reasoning is what we aim to excel at. The reasoning individual has free will, engages in dialogue with contenting others, votes to assert his citizen role.
Jordan is a reformer not a revolutionary. He denounces revolutionaries like Marxists and Fascists seeking to overthrow the system, rather that gently work within the system to upgrade a basically decent civilization.
He believes life is tragic and suffering, sickness and death are our lot, and that our suffering is tainted by malevolence. He identifies human depravity as a prime motivator of human behavior.
I agree that life is tragic but that suffering and malevolence must be met head on to mitigate them or perhaps convert them into something useful, or at least to deprive the of their sting. Jordan is a goo man and speaks the truth, but he is a bit depressed, and that is partially why his drug addiction, his collapse, his drug addiction, etc., almost destroyed him.
With divine love in our souls and from the Divine Couple and the Good Spirits, we are better able to weather what occurs to us.
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