Jordan Peterson And The Primordial Calculator

 Jordan Peterson is not without controversy and is unafraid to making sweeping generalizations, and I believe he loves the truth, knows the truth, and speaks the truth, embedded in science, his ponderings, and ancient Western cultural truths.

Look what he wrote on Page 15 of his book, 12 RULES FOR LIFE AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS: 'There is an unspeakably primordial calculator, deep within you, at the very foundation of your brain, far below your thoughts or feelings. It monitors exactly where you are positioned in society--on a scale of one to ten, for the sake of argument. If you're a number one, the highest level of status, you're an overwhelming success. If you're male, you have preferential access to the best places to live and the highest-quality food. People compete to do you favours. You have limitless opportunity for romantic and sexual contact. You are a successful lobster and the most desirable females line up and vie for your attention."

Now, Jordan may seem to be a Social Darwinist, an apologist for capitalism and the elitists justifying the have that are top lobsters getting all the best food, women, and opportunities. That is shrill and misleading. Jordan just insists that hierarchies are here to stay, and for each girl and each boy to strive to work hard, competently, and honestly to climb the hierarchy of their choice will work for them and for society as this system of merit for talented, striving individuals rewards their ingenuity, hard work and earned expertise and position.

I know little of psychology but I realize that there are all kinds of indentified and invisible, instinctive, intuitive, subconscious drives and awarenesses at work in each person, and between all members of society, so it does not seem unrealistic that one's rank and outcome in society would radiate through out one's being for good or ill.

Again, we are half-beast and half-angel: the natural limits on human outcomes as scientifically studied, recorded, and noted by Peterson and other biological psychologists is true as far as it goes. I believe that we are half-angel, which means we are invited by the Good Spirits to grow into our natural route to living angelicness, by making ourselves top lobster in our own hierarchy of self-development as individuator-anarchist supercitizens, and this fabulous route is open to all, and it in no way conflicts with what Peterson is accounting for above.