I don’t think Nietzsche was wagging his finger saying, “Watch out! Things are dangerous!” I don’t see how you can just say to science & technology, “Stop.” It doesn’t care. Capital doesn’t care. “Bu-t the nuclear family! Tidy bedrooms!”. Capital doesn’t care about your feelings.
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If anything Nietzsche was about embracing danger, I would say. At least the transgendered and the “postmodernists” are using technology and trying to do something new with the possibilities & the “danger”—even if it’s a bit bonkers.
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Further, Peterson tries to defend a family form that is dead for a reason. There are 7bn people on Earth. We’re stripped down by the system into atomistic consumers who don’t reproduce and are interchangeable ‘cause it’s efficient. Just import more people.
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Have your marriage (it’s an industry), and have your divorce (it’s an industry). Have your gende-reassignment (it’s a new market for the bored mid-50s male). As long as there’s enough people to grind through the system it doesn’t matter.
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Peterson is trying to rescue the last man with the bourgeois family of the mid-20th century, which doesn’t serve contemporary economic needs. In a way, he’s the “virtual dad” another ersatz experience in nostalgia, just like retro clothes and whatever.
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