Jordan Peterson Debunks Leftist Ideology In 8 Minutes

Marxists insist that you the individual are not an individual—you are what your group says your are—and your group is engaged in warfare for dominance, and power wielding is arbitrary unless wielded by your group. All that is left is retrogression to tribalism fighting and bsrbarism. This regression is undesirable. This 8-minute interview excerpt is from a Ben Shapiro interview with Peterson. Ben starts off by complimenting Peterson for his self-help advice helping young adults get their lives together, and his unique strength to saying no to anger, attacks and accusation from Leftists. He is giving conservatives courage and hope to fight back and stand up for their convictions. Jordan reminds Ben that he, Jordan, is an expert on gender issues. He points out that the science is solid that gender differences are real, and that they are biological more than sociocultural. Jordan lays out the experiment to test gender differences: If gender differences decreases among more egalitarian societies, then gender differences are sociocultural, but in egalitarian Scandinavia, the gender differences hugely increased indicating that gender differences between the sexes do exist and that they are mostly biological. These gender facts emerged despite ideological, left-wing bias harbored by the social scientists conducting the gender studies. Some Leftists dislike this and suggest that people are malleable so if children are pushed socio-cultural harder and harder, then the biological differences between girls and boys could be minimized. Jordan objects that such artificial pushing could la to children rebounding against such social engineering, and he was doubtful that parents want to cede such gender self-control to be run by the government. Jordan notes that the Left employ cognitive systems to interpret the world. They have levels, axiomatic levels, with fundamental presuppositions, and some of these are at a deeper level than the ones above them. It is important to diagnose the axiomatic structures of the narrative of the Left. Leftists pretend that they are atheistic rationalist, that their deep axiom is on the side of science. That is not their reality. They believe instead in Marxist social constructions: All hierarchies are based on powerplay, are based on group identity, tribal identity. The entire history of the world is nothing but a power play among those identity groups. If science disagrees with these assumptions what to do about it. If science is the bottom axiom, the beliefs that go against the proven science will be discarded. With Leftists their beliefs are at the bottom, so they just altered the science. So, they stick with their unproven axiom: You are your group engaged in warfare and it is arbitrary unless it is your group. The Leftist meme is naked tribalism, fighting and barbarism, a regression to the violent, warlike past. The individual should be sovereign, and helped the West become civilized, rising above tribalism. The cultural war is about what is the proper framework, within which to view human identity and what is the relationship of the individual and the group in relationship to that identity. Leftists insists it all group and all power. Marxists insist that you the individual are not an individual—you are what your group says you are—and your group is engaged in warfare for dominance, and power wielding is arbitrary unless wielded by your group. All that is left is retrogression to tribalism fighting and barbarism. This regression is undesirable. Jordan Peterson’s positions here are consistent with what he has announced elsewhere, and I largely agree with his take on Leftist Ideology.