Do you find yourself out of place in a changing world? Are people going crazy, but you're the only one who can see it? Perhaps your life is out of order, or maybe there's one area of your life that you just can't seem to get right? Then there's a self-help guru out there for you. Today we discuss Jordan Peterson, and more.
Our subject today is Jordan Peterson, but this may also apply to some other popular guru figures. Figures that we may be drawn to because of some particular dilemma we are facing at the time. Be the problem money, or stress, or love. No one is without life problems, and there's a guru for everyone.
Every guru has some background story, often some entertaining tale of struggle from which they triumphed. Jordan Peterson's background story is filled with battles of poor health, depression, and confrontations with Cultural Marxists. He has studied deeply and taught psychology; a well accredited university professor. He will help with organizing your life (and your room), and tell you reasons to help explain the radical hard left turn of Western politics in the last decade. His speciality is psychology, so his books lean toward thinking about thinking. He promotes personal responsibility, self discipline, valuing oneself, mental balance and harmony, and largely for the purpose that we can achieve whatever greater desires one may have in life.
Lot's of good things there, so what's the problem? Receiving good advice from a knowledgeable professor or field expert. If successful, a guru like Peterson encourages a person to chase their goals in life until they can achieve them.
That's great, but what if our underlying desires are in conflict with our ultimate Life Purpose? They never show how many people set goals, achieve those goals, only to end up feeling empty at the end. Stand up straight, shoulders back, be responsible. But for what? There are countless numbers of people who achieved that big promotion, or clean room, or other material self goal only to end up more lost than where they began.
The problem with guru's like Peterson, is they do not, and cannot, ever offer an all encompassing doctrine for life, yet at the same time implying the illusion that they do. Just look at Peterson's book titled "12 Rules for Life".
Add to that, Peterson's message appeals heavily to non-religious youth in Western societies where Christianity is in massive decline, and what does "12 Rules for Life" mean? Some of his fans have blasphemously upheld it to the Christian bible's 10 commandments. These are incredibly lost individuals who have twisted concepts of what even is right and wrong in the world. And Peterson isn't capable of telling them what's right or wrong. In Western countries we've been fed a lifetime of television and movie illusions.
Not all kind deeds are good, and not all punishment is bad. Context matters, but what is that context? Peterson can't answer that either. Should we believe in a God? Peterson can't even tell if he himself believes in a God or not.
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Who dare to believe video 1:25:00
Here Peterson redefines the word believe to mean you can't believe in anything unless you're 100% committed to it, and perfectly devoted to it 100% of the time like some kind of robot, and then concludes how dare anyone say they believe in a God, because who are you to dare say believe. But that's a very twisted way of using the word "believe", and entirely evading a real answer. Why obfuscate everything and not just use the common definition of "believe". Ask any Christian Pastor, and they'll tell you that even the Devil believes in God, because the Devil knows who's in charge. Believing in something does not require devotion to it, yet Peterson evades and evades, and this is telling of much deeper holes in the message he brings.
Other telling signs of the holes in Peterson's message is how he often recites religious stories to his audience, but then meticulously intertwines it with references to philosophers like Nietzsche, Carl Jung, and author Dostoevsky. He's a professor, psychologist, and expert at mincing words.
To the title of this recording, Peterson is not a False Prophet. He doesn't claim to be a prophet. He is what we could call, an Anti-Prophet. He is the anti deliverer. Rather than directing lost individuals toward an all encompassing doctrine that could help set them on their life path, he instead sells them a book, and another book.
Rather than directing people to clear discovery of what is good and evil in the world, he implicitly and ambiguously assumes the good and evil values of his audience, which feeds into the lost individuals pre-existing conceptions of good and evil in a hedonist and materialistic world filled with illusions, propaganda, and media induced dreams.
This recording isn't intended to hate on Jordan Peterson. This is a critique. For those that do have a foundational doctrine for life, then Peterson's message may help bolster their convictions toward excellence. But for his greater number of lost fans with no foundational doctrine, Peterson's message effectively works to detract people from a path which would bring a complete doctrine to their life. It's in this way that he is the Anti-Prophet.
Many young men and women on a lost path of false illusions see or hear about Peterson. He shows up and verbally battles against the Cultural Marxists and extreme leftwing which we perceive as evil, which makes him appear as a hero. Then he weaves a fancy tale that matches up with many of people's media induced materialistic values. And so people are drawn to Peterson, and he gains a great audience. But once he has such audience, what does he do? Does he dispell the illusions and propaganda we have been fed all our life? The subliminal propaganda we've been given since birth. No. He instead inspires people on how to become even better materialists and hedonists in our current world.
To conclude, people can listen to someone like Jordan Peterson and improve their attitude, and improve their relationships, and more, while losing their existence. We will be lost, and the future will be lost, if we don't have a foundational doctrine to guide us in building it. We must specifically build it for the good and excellent people of today, and those of generations to come.
Call it a philosophy or religion. An all encompassing doctrine for life should encourage us to seek a life of mental and physical purity and excellence. Seek a healthful life in harmony with nature. Invest into the future, while also rejecting materialism and pleasure indulgence. Build a future of strong like minded children, families, and communities. A strong community is more just neighbors that kindly say "hi" on the street. A strong community is people that have deep love and honor for each other. A strongly built community is our extended family. These objectives are what we must be working toward. Aligning with our Life Purpose. Dispell illusions of what propaganda and media outlets have conditioned us to think is valuable in life.
We send out love and to all our brothers and sisters. Stay blessed.
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All good and well, you compare the somewhat well thought out and excellent life advice of a learned man, to some kind of alternative delivery of an all-encompassing truth about life that you expected from the individual.
Someone like myself would say your expectation is completely misplaced, nobody in the world offers what you describe these people should instead be offering, and those that do, are charlatans.
Rather than directing lost individuals toward an all encompassing doctrine that could help set them on their life path, he instead sells them a book, and another book.There is no such thing as an all encompassing doctrine that helps set people on their life path, all alternative doctrines known to man don't encompass all, and do not live up to the general standards you set, as well as imply, in your article.
All in all your language was good, I enjoyed reading your opinion, even while strongly disagreeing with the implied meaning, and personally experienced a 'wall of bias' effect on the underlying communicated message, I still enjoyed the read and found it articulate at the expense of being a little verbose.
Keep up the good work!
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