Hot take on @jordanbpeterson i did in a facebook comment thread (although I try to avoid FB like the plague now).pic.twitter.com/v9MXCCbcyP
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Well I think Peterson in some ways adds to that distance, he certainly avoids any association with the right like the plague.
I think normies even considering "meaning" is a huge step in the right direction. People with a stronger grounding may consider him a noob, but when the median level of religiosity in the half educated is 0 (or negative, contempt) changing the frame is a win
If he is merely the doorman inviting people into real learning, rather than continuing on to the bar that lets you play video games, that is a great service to society
In what way do you believe peterson adds to the inferential distance between bugmen and eudaimonia?
That's a good observation, the median of your average millennial's spiritual impulse is 0 to 3, which is the spectrum between laughable fedoraism and smoking weed while looking at pics of galaxies lol
I think JBP adds to the distance in that he is invested in keeping people in the stasis of slightly older liberalism and within the psychological instead of the metaphysical. He waffles all over the place in people asking him about God,and that's partially because of the audience
He is dealing with. My problem is that he just wants people to cope with modernity and like all boomers, he's too invested in the system to truly contemplate what living with a metaphysical purpose is, he abhors all political or existential solutions that challenges the norm.
To reframe the issue, how would you respond to, say historical missionaries in the new world or Africa, teaching syncretized versions of the faith? I would not look to them for nor evaluate them on the rightness of their theology if it was not a threat to the established faithful
Or are you saying he is a spiritual enabler, allowing the fallen a little succor but avoiding the realization of the need for repentence?
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