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    1. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

      1. Another problem with Peterson is that he promotes the idea of an individual heroically self-improving, but he simultaneously admit hard biological limits (e.g. IQ). This means that some people will never get very far in a meritocratic hierarchy.

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    2. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

      2. Therefore, that hierarchy will always be skewed towards the “biologically privileged” no matter how hard people work. The implication is really that what is needed is a stable hierarchy of duties and obligations to protect people at the bottom.

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      Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

      3. But that hierarchy of obligations (aka aristocracy) was precisely what his individualistic classical liberalism nuked. The reason people get left behind at the bottom is that capitalism & liberalism unleashed all that “biological potential”.

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        2. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

          4. He also suggests that meaning derives from work and self-improvement, an element of Protestant redemption through work. It’s true that work staves off depression, but I’m not sure it creates meaning.

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        3. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

          5. There are plenty of financially successful and professionally successful people who suffer from alienation and depression and have no idea what their identity is. Part of what Peterson is offering is “the American Dream”.

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        4. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

          6. But this does not create virtue. In fact, because liberal capitalism (or whatever iteration of capital development we’re on) breaks down the ties, traditions, and rootedness from which virtue may arise. And this is part of the loss of meaning.

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        5. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

          7. It’s not the whole answer, but Peterson’s prescription—insofar as it is liberal—is actually destructive of the forces that give life meaning. Self-improvement isn’t enough on its own, of course Peterson admits there’s a religious element.

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        6. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

          8. A’s I’ve stated before, his problems mostly come from his classical liberalism. This produces wild inconsistencies in his thought. If he stuck to Jung, Dostoyevsky & Solzhenitsyn he’d be okay. Because those were rooted & anti-individualist thinkers.

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        7. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

          9. I have a lot of sympathy for Peterson, because he makes excellent and true points and is extremely effective. And I also identify with him because, being an Anglo-Celt, I feel counterpoised between individualism and the rooted. Between Mill and Jung.

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        8. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

          Addendum: I suspect only about 20% of the pop. is capable of the self-directed, individualistic self-improvement Peterson recommends. They benefit from his work, if they’re falling behind on this. What is really required is for these people to form a hierarchy that guides the 80%

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        9. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

          Peterson should understand this, because the kind of “self-created” life he talks about is derived from Nietzsche & was conceived as extremely elitist by Nietzsche. The mob couldn’t do it. People like Camus (barely) and d’Annunzio could. Most men need to be told what to do.

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        10. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

          Telling people to “make their own meaning” may be telling people to do the impossible. They can’t self-create. That’s why psychoanalysis has always been an elitist field, it’s for people who can afford & know how to self-create.

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        11. Tom X Hart‏ @tomxhart Jul 4

          That’s why Leo Strauss though atheism should be suppressed. Only a very few men could stand to live with that knowledge. General society should never know. Peterson democratises Nietzsche, “Every man a superman.” I don’t think it’s possible.

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