Not To Worry

 I admire Jordan Peterson a lot, but wish to qualify two of his most  important assumptions. He posits that 350 million years of biological evolution is incontrovertible evidence that humans establish and exist in hierarchies, and that is an unalterable reality. He likely is right, especially concerning nonindividuating humans, living in cliques and group-living. 

He wants real competition in school, at work and in the marketplace to unfold with no guarantee of equality of outcome, to ensure that the best rise to the top of whatever hierarchy that they are competing in. He assures us that this is good for society, and for human advancement. Here again, he likely is correct, especially concerning nonindividuating humans, living in cliques and group-living.

He also argues that there is a genetic elite of talented individuals that likely rise to the top of all hierarchies, where their superior intelligence and conscientiousness will largely predict that they will run things, make the most money and have the most impact on society. Here again, he is likely correct, especially concerning nonindividuating humans, living in cliques and group-living.

My qualification to these two assumptions of his is basically a declaration that he is right, but that it does not matter, because anyone that individuates and individual-lives is bright enough, creative enough, original enough and is industrious enough to make all the money that they need, and climb up high enough on whatever hierarchy that they choose to occupy, that their achievement and output will be so phenomenal and impressive, that their success will be solid and astounding. 

This trumps worries about inequality of outcome, and worries that less talented people will never amount to anything and will be stuck forever and inalterably in the middle of the hierarchy. Each maverizer is able to gain 30-50 points in IQ just by self-realizing, so each will make a singular, unique contribution to her situation and indirectly benefit all of society. 

Those endowed with lower natural IQ or talent, should they still take what God gave them and develop it to its full potential, will be making an novel approach to human endeavor that may well yield new tenchniuqes or insights that a brighter person could not capture because she has not this slightly less talented person unique perspective or experience. All can learn from all, and all have something to offer, and we must be humble enough to listen to everyone, and share gratitude and appreciation with them for their personal outlook.

May this reassure those worried about hierarchies and competition in the open market.