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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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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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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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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