Please help we who are less cognizant. Who is Jordan Peterson and what does he espouse?
He difficult to summarize quickly. He's Canadian psychologist and cognitive scientist. Academically, he writes and talks a lot about the biological nature of man's common symbols and religious meaning. He's spent a lot of time looking at what I will call the collective symbolism of Bible stories and the psychological truths within them. He's become famous over the last 2-3 years and has become more publicly critical of the illogic and linguistic distortions of the Left. He can be called a "self help" guru, but I believe that is too shallow a term. His talks can be dense, but I find them very interesting.
Peterson on climate change. The first minute or so will tell you where he stands. Worth the watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ1gqIAKdgA
Jordan Peterson Confronts Australian Politician on Gender Politics and Quotas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOHUwwP6LLs
Jordan Peterson discusses whether men and women can ever be equal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy4vq8RdPGU
Jordan Peterson: “If You Haven’t Done Anything Wrong, Do Not Apologise”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j20o1mbixgc
He is a clinical psychologist, college professor, and a very important thinker and communicator. Great admirer of Jung and Nietzsche. He refused to use LGBTQ personal pronouns under Canadian government threat and his youtube video went viral.
I wouldn’t call him a conservative, although he aligns with us on free speech, personal responsibility, original sin, and our dislike of the SJW’s and post-modernism, which he subjects to frequent devastating and contemptuous critiques.
He is not a Christian although he knows there is something more and is working hard to find it. I suspect he will come to the cross one-day.
Just search youtube for his videos. There are so many. I’m in the middle of about 24 hours of lectures about his psychological view of the Bible. It is potentially life changing. That’s how good this guy is.
His main audience is men between 16 and 30. He has them thinking about responsibility, being heroic, and listening to very challenging discussions of Dostoevsky, Jung, Adam and Eve, Noah and Abraham.
One of the most popular internet memes coming out of his work is his advice to people who want to put their lives in order to “Clean your room.” (From his book 12 steps for living). But he ties that simple admonition to Jung, William Blake, the Book of Genesis and the story of Abram.
I believe he is one of the most important communicators on the planet today. He doesn’t mince words and the wisdom just pours out of him.
Look him up and enjoy.
Peterson is a big advocate for free speech and English common law. He didn’t like that the Canadian government was imposing a speech code on people that required them to call transgender people the pronoun of their choice. He would address them how they liked but didn’t feel that compelling him to do so was right.
He knew this practice of imposing speech codes was typical of Soviet Russian communists whom he excoriates. He is the author of Twelve Rules for Life. I think his most important rule is to adopt responsibility in order to find meaning as an antidote to the malevolence and suffering in life.
Needless to say I’m a big fan. He is IMHO the most important political philosopher and intellectual of this century.
And if you want to see something entertaining, search YouTube for the Cathy Neumann interview.