Still have to get to more Peterson, but this is something of an interesting and optimistic alternate take:
I worry a lot about the problem of the commons being played out on a global scale, and don’t really share the breezy optimism. But a different set of axioms is there, which could be the replacement of the God idea, and perhaps already is becoming so. It squares with my point about the post-religious European countries not experiencing the kind of dislocation you would expect under Peterson’s paradigm.
I don’t think Jordan Peterson has much of a leg to stand on in Religion. He has some interesting talking points in many of his other discussions, but this one particular topic he’s just a caricature of himself.
That’s a good way of putting it. I know he understands mythology, but he’s really obsessed with mythology. It’s interesting, but not the kind of thing that the great majority of religious people believe, and he draws some pretty weird conclusions.
I live with all of my heart and soul for a day, a day when we are no longer plagued by the endless tedium of Internet atheists…
How long, O Lord, how long???
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