I have known about Jordan Peterson for a while, initially through his famous 'gender-free language' stance in Canada; a reader of this blog put me onto this - you know who you are, thanks! My reading and 'researching' has generally been limited to the real personal essentials for the past year or two, however, so I have not paid him too much attention. I am just dipping into a few bits and pieces at the moment.
My few brief encounters with Jordan Peterson have been enough to effect a considerable change in my being. Jordan has rekindled my faith in the power, the possibility, even, of thinking. I had pretty much given up on 'thought'. Almost all of what is presented as 'thought' is in fact no such thing. It is received opinion, which is adopted by people because it aligns with their own personal biases or wishful hopes. Human beings too readily identify with their thoughts (read 'the words that unconsciously constellate in their minds'), while relegating the other aspects of being - feeling, intuition, sensation, if we follow Jung's system (which we don't have to) - to an inferior position unworthy of proper humans. Just check out pretty much any mainstream source, and it's all derivative crap. No proper thinking at all. Which suits the mainstream just fine: keep it stupid, keep it stupid.
So listening to Jordan Peterson for a minute or two has been personally revelatory. Not, to repeat, that I will necessarily agree with everything he says. But here is a man who knows how to think! It is marvellous, miraculous! So thank you for that alone, Mr Peterson.
This is Jordan Peterson speaking to folk at the Cambridge Union, pretty recently, I believe. On that subject close to all our hearts, climate change....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBbvehbomrY
