aite Zizek gets his first clear own on Peterson with the whole "I don't underestimate evil" thing. And I agree, Peterson's mission of "we just need to restore Judeo-Christian responsibility" is absurd (not to mention "Judeo-Christian" as a concept was invented in the 80s).
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Totally agree w Zizek that the danger of Marxism is the teleological structure. Maybe I should read Hegel, ugh
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huh Peterson is actually sort of correct about the postmodernists, at least based on my read of Lyotard. "be skeptical of grand narratives! But hey what if we Marxism". He seems to be walking into a trap re hierarchies tho...
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"meaning is to be found in the adoption of responsibility" there are a lot of people who need to hear this imo
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During Q&A I'm seeing these differences that seem to come from their jobs: Peterson as a clinician vs Zizek as a social theorist. Of course the former will favor individual problems and the latter will favor social ones.
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That said, I feel more sympathetic toward Peterson's stance here, that solving personal problems deeply enough will also solve social problems. I feel like there's a helplessness among the Left that both seems to cause them personal distress as well as ineffecuality.
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To put it in Berne's terms, the first step is being able to say "I'm OK" and "You're OK" before operating on society, or else you fall into the traps and make people suffer.
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"we feel like we are free but really we are dominated by a pathological structure of ideological prohibitions" I was just considering writing about this last night, glad they've hit upon it
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