Opinions about @jordanbpeterson appear to be mandatory now. Allowed opinions are:
A) YAAAY
or
B) BOOO
I don't have an opinion. I might get one eventually. It won't be yay or boo.https://meaningness.com/understanding
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Leave culture war hatred behind.
@jordanbpeterson presents possibilities for living you may find useful regardless of your tribe. It's feasible to separate them from his political views (many-to-most of which I do not agree with).Show this thread -

I’ve suggested a recipe for resolving culture war issues, and shown how to apply it to gender and to nations:https://meaningness.com/completing-countercultures …Show this thread -

Help build something new and better!
The future is important and exciting. Don’t waste your present arguing about lobsters.https://meaningness.com/fluidity-desiderata …Show this thread
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My training was in discrete mathematics, so I try to fit everything into a neat overarching system. Which is pretty funny, because the central premise of the system is that you can't fit things into a neat overarching system!
I tacitly expected
Archetypical myths are powerful sources of insight; we both draw on them. They can also be powerfully misleading.
Interpreting and applying mythic insight requires meta-systematic judgement.
What I don’t understand about
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We agree strongly that catastrophic collapse of cultural systems is possible in the near term. This is important and urgent.
The culture war's obsession with trivia is both a symptom and a cause.
SJWs and the alt-right BOTH tend to anti-systematic destructiveness. Refraining from the culture war is beneficial.
If I have any tentative opinion about