Mistaken Works by Jordan Peterson

Thoughts on the Ironic Shortcomings of a Canadian Psychologist

Postmodernism breaks down Truth itself into endless half-certainties formulated as facts, but rooted in the depleted soil of the subjective.

In our current culture, we so often find ourselves waking up in the morning that we cannot recognize ourselves in the mirror. Our appearance is distorted by hopelessness and apathy into something less than we really are.

So, let us turn to how little comfort and security we can find in generalizations and delusions that promise reliability. We are back again in our intellectual cradles, babies. Now we are again devoid of the complexities of the Truth that eludes us in the simplicity of the Philistines.

In human wisdom, which is again dark and unreliable, we seek the comfort and security of the Universal Truth.

Psychologists, journalists and politicians become at the same time shepherds and intellectuals, offering their skeptical students the beginnings of faith in something close to objective. We are reconstructing for ourselves the foundations of civilization, which by their very nature obscure the true aims of human tradition, turning the pinnacles of wisdom into our household gods.

In place of the Forum – a boxing match.

Instead of an ateneum, there is an image of oneself in a crooked hall.

Instead of the Church – Votive candle, on which only “Man” is written.

In the midst of the vast amount of self-help literature that is bombarding us at this moment of crisis, Dr. Jordan Peterson’s writings are a welcome respite. They promise us a reacquaintance with the more human elements of our human nature.

Peterson’s practical focus is on improving the individual. He believes that this is the immediate goal to which everyone should strive.

His work skillfully tackles the problems of young conservative men, overcoming the existential cul-de-sac that many Americans face today – the problem of identity. He proposes methods by which the concept of personality can be established in a culture devoid of the foundations of politics, philosophy and religion. He builds the pulpit from which he preaches out of his own intellectual dissonance.

With bachelor’s degrees in political science and psychology, and a master’s and Ph.D. in clinical psychology, there can be no doubt that Peterson is a highly educated individual. However, he limits his insights to his own philosophical view, which he sells to his readers as being practicable.

In other words, his analysis of the Good is limited by his own intellectual prejudices, and by allowing these prejudices to color his understanding, he has misunderstood the primacy of the Christian intellectual tradition, a tradition that asserts itself through the renunciation of our own ends in favor of the Divine, prescribes to man a right and just will. perfect wisdom and requires the baptism of the human will. Having failed in this way to partake of the Truth, Peterson lost his mind due to his own attempt to preserve it.

This is not to say that work like Peterson’s is unconstructive or important, although it may not be as objective as he imagines. Thanks to blog articles such as “The Great Ideological Lie of Diversity” and “The Gender Scandal”, there is no doubt that his work is contemporary, and his views on the fruits of postmodernism were far more advanced than others. But this does not rid him of the delusions of our modern age.

The intellectual tendency to self-deception, common in academic circles and dispassionately expressed in Peterson’s writings, is that of the rogue knight who breaks the image of God in his proud pursuit of Truth, breaking the heart of man.

To sum up: Peterson’s view of culture is often divisive and provokes the very exploration that he so often in his pride denies.