Thursday, July 08, 2021

His fans are "hungry for a discussion of the relationship between responsibility and meaning."

Male-dominated patriarchy? Jordan Peterson does not agree. It is not power, it is competency that enables a person to rise to the top of most human hierarchies, he believes.

He debates leftist Helen Lewis, who says the United States was founded on identity politics. Jordan says the United States was not founded on identity politics. It was founded on the idea that all people have divine value. 

Jordan notes that academia is dominated by the left. They are destroying the social sciences and humanities. 

Not power? How about Putin? How about Xi Jinping? Helen believes that the rise of strong men authoritarians around the world is very worrisome. Jordan agrees, but he believes the way people rise is because of their competency. How about the leaders of North Korea and Iran? 

Jordan comes across to me as very defensive, probably because he has been unfairly attacked as being a person who approves of male-dominated patriarchy. Also many other unfair attacks. He detests the radical left, and believes that he has "innumerable highly motivated enemies."
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/yZYQpge1W5s" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

No comments:

Post a Comment