I would strongly urge readers to watch Peterson's university lectures, specifically his 2017 Maps of Meaning course at University of Toronto. The entire semester is on YouTube. He is a completely different person than the one who later became so wildly controversial and disliked. Kind, graciously interacting with students, sharing amazing insights ranging from evolutionary biology to the history of myth and his personal stories. His understanding of fairy tales is really excellent. None of the out-of-control masculinity we see now. Something happened to him after that to change him so dramatically; a combination of angry reaction to the way he was attacked along with his health and medical tragedies. Watching his downward spiral is really heartbreaking. He has forgotten everything he tried to once teach his students, having fallen victim to the very things he warned against.
Now I understand a bit more my almost allergic reaction to JP. When I read of him and sought his writing I did not automatically react so negatively. It was when I saw and heard him that it felt like I was developing hives. It is a very small exaggeration but his stern outlook just gives me the ick as the kids say. Yes, I'm more a Thomas Moore person , enjoying his circumambulation around the themes of Soulful Enchantment. I wonder what kind of conversation those two men would have?
I sympathized with the plight of his health problems brought about by bad medical practice. to me it changed him, but it did seem no one was going to allow that. Wasn't it Jung who said americans don't trust anyone with more than one idea? true of Aussies too i am afraid to say. Petterson though i don't think is as insightful of others. That one cannot question wokeness shows how close it is to being just as fascist as those they oppose. But the level of fascism from the other side at the moment is making many put that aside. But each seem to be playing shadow with the others but surprising unified in both being anti-democratic.
(Peterson) Starts out that book with the lobster analogy…the animalistic sense of Innate hierarchy. ( is that where the concept of original sin comes from?) Makes sense to me. There’s the anima ( soul), animalistic, Hillman’s heavy molasses river slowly moving thru the tropical jungle.
And democracy, everyone equal, is spiritual. Like something akin to nuclear fusion, spirit and soul infuse together within a life, and they struggle to coordinate until that final leave taking.
Peterson does us all a good by refusing to bow to the extremes of feminine wokeness. The voices of protest against that heavy imbalance are rising, growing in numbers and slowly becoming more mainstream. Isn’t it only fair that the souls of men get to make their presence known? And Jordan Peterson has a place in forcing open a space for those souls of men to have their existence recognized and acknowledged.
"...and sometimes lounge around imagining that Aphrodite/Venus makes the world a curved place." They DO make the world a curved place. I agree with you that Jordan Peterson has positive and negative points. He's said some really vile things, imho, and some intelligent ones. I think your exegesis was fair and insightful. Personally, I think some of the outrageous things he says is because he's been compromised. I could be wrong.
I would strongly urge readers to watch Peterson's university lectures, specifically his 2017 Maps of Meaning course at University of Toronto. The entire semester is on YouTube. He is a completely different person than the one who later became so wildly controversial and disliked. Kind, graciously interacting with students, sharing amazing insights ranging from evolutionary biology to the history of myth and his personal stories. His understanding of fairy tales is really excellent. None of the out-of-control masculinity we see now. Something happened to him after that to change him so dramatically; a combination of angry reaction to the way he was attacked along with his health and medical tragedies. Watching his downward spiral is really heartbreaking. He has forgotten everything he tried to once teach his students, having fallen victim to the very things he warned against.
Now I understand a bit more my almost allergic reaction to JP. When I read of him and sought his writing I did not automatically react so negatively. It was when I saw and heard him that it felt like I was developing hives. It is a very small exaggeration but his stern outlook just gives me the ick as the kids say. Yes, I'm more a Thomas Moore person , enjoying his circumambulation around the themes of Soulful Enchantment. I wonder what kind of conversation those two men would have?
I sympathized with the plight of his health problems brought about by bad medical practice. to me it changed him, but it did seem no one was going to allow that. Wasn't it Jung who said americans don't trust anyone with more than one idea? true of Aussies too i am afraid to say. Petterson though i don't think is as insightful of others. That one cannot question wokeness shows how close it is to being just as fascist as those they oppose. But the level of fascism from the other side at the moment is making many put that aside. But each seem to be playing shadow with the others but surprising unified in both being anti-democratic.
(Peterson) Starts out that book with the lobster analogy…the animalistic sense of Innate hierarchy. ( is that where the concept of original sin comes from?) Makes sense to me. There’s the anima ( soul), animalistic, Hillman’s heavy molasses river slowly moving thru the tropical jungle.
And democracy, everyone equal, is spiritual. Like something akin to nuclear fusion, spirit and soul infuse together within a life, and they struggle to coordinate until that final leave taking.
Peterson does us all a good by refusing to bow to the extremes of feminine wokeness. The voices of protest against that heavy imbalance are rising, growing in numbers and slowly becoming more mainstream. Isn’t it only fair that the souls of men get to make their presence known? And Jordan Peterson has a place in forcing open a space for those souls of men to have their existence recognized and acknowledged.
"...and sometimes lounge around imagining that Aphrodite/Venus makes the world a curved place." They DO make the world a curved place. I agree with you that Jordan Peterson has positive and negative points. He's said some really vile things, imho, and some intelligent ones. I think your exegesis was fair and insightful. Personally, I think some of the outrageous things he says is because he's been compromised. I could be wrong.