I write about meaning, nihilism, adult developmental psychology, and religious and cultural history. So does @jordanbpeterson.
Our explanations often coincide—because they're mostly mainstream, not original. We're collators & popularizers mainly.https://meaningness.com/preview-eternalism-and-nihilism …
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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!https://meaningness.com/modes-chart 1 reply 0 retweets 19 likesShow this thread -
I tacitly expected @jordanbpeterson to have constructed a system, and tried to figure it out. I suspect now that systematization is not part of his approach. It's literary, not STEM-ish. (But I still haven't read his big book!)https://meaningness.com/resolution3 replies 0 retweets 12 likesShow this thread -
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.https://buddhism-for-vampires.com/romancing-the-shadow …1 reply 0 retweets 15 likesShow this thread -
David Chapman Retweeted Cathy Young
What I don’t understand about @jordanbpeterson’s work is how he thinks about which sorts of implications can legitimately be drawn from myth. Critical thread from@CathyYoung63 on that:https://twitter.com/CathyYoung63/status/998679471157850112 …David Chapman added,
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Both @jordanbpeterson and I write about the culture war. Some things he says I agree with; some I disagree; many I don't understand. He seems to be, roughly, a social conservative. I am not.https://meaningness.com/counterculture-war …3 replies 0 retweets 9 likesShow this thread -
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.https://meaningness.com/atomized-mode 1 reply 0 retweets 10 likesShow this thread -
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 @jordanbpeterson, it is that taking a side was a mistake, in the long run.https://meaningness.com/metablog/communal-vs-systematic-politics …1 reply 1 retweet 15 likesShow this thread -

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).1 reply 2 retweets 17 likesShow 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 …4 replies 1 retweet 12 likesShow this thread
Every culture war is fundamentally a war about resources and power. It uses the memetic dynamics for that purpose, but the relevance that ideologies receive is ultimately economical.
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