Pinocchio Quote--Jordan Peterson

 I wish to quote from Jordan Peterson on Page 37 of his book, 12 RULES FOR LIFE AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS: "Chaos is the deep ocean bottom to which Pinocchio voyaged to rescue his father from Monstro, whale and fire-breathing dragon. That journey into darkness and rescue is the most difficult thing a puppet can do, if he wants to be real; if he wants to extract himself from the temptations of deceit and acting and victimization and impulsive pleasure and totalitarian subjugation; if he wants to take his place as a genuine Being in the world."

What is this about. My take is that the life of the immoral, amoral, and inauthentic follower of the crowd, cannot overcome suffering or malevolence; Pinocchio rescues his father on his hero's quest into the darkness to fight evil and chaos. That is what we are called to do. To self-realize is not only to grow one's intellect, one's power, one's originality and creativity, it is to grow in love, in spiritual and ethical goodness, and that requires living it, not just believing it as Jordan the existentialist demands and commands of us.

I wish to digress for a minute. Anyone that knows me knows that I assert that free will is a stunted myth in the lives of most people: their natural, instinctive fatalism is because they are mostly determined by their animal inner drives and impulses, and by a social environmental owned by Lucifer where groupism, group-oriented, ignorance and malice are the norms.

People do have a priori status of enjoying free will, but it is a weak psychic component in comparison to the internal and external forces controlling the wills of most people. As and if one maverizes, one's consciousness, rational powers, sentience, and reasoning abilities are consciously released and engaged, and then one's will, now a free agency habit, now second nature, as the good, conscious self-controls its will, then the will is "free".

Notice how Pinocchio the puppet is controlled by nature (chaos?) and society (order) and he has to become free by being very kind, and very brave, ethically ramping it up to the max, so to speak. Once he is so engaged, he is a puppet no more. I have no idea what Jordan's concept of free will is, but my theory seems implicit in Pinocchio's journey from controlled, amoral robot to alive, self-controlling, good agent and knight for good in the universe.

Peterson seems to regard too much chaos or too much order as not good for individuals or for society. Too much of either extreme breeds evil, tyranny, violence, fanaticism, tribal strife, inequality, injustice and groupism. Only the consciousness of the free, maverizing individual and individuator (my interpretation) Pinocchio allows for the free, ethical hero to blend chaos and order in a way that is personal, original and countenanced by God or Being itself.