Do we need God to make sense of life? Jordan Peterson and Susan Blackmore debated whether God was necessary for meaning to exist. They first discuss the nature of memes and archetypes. Susan Blackmore subscribes to Dawkins’ idea of memes as being separate from genes in that they are not biological, but that they are … Read more
When Peterson was later asked which rule he found hardest to follow, he said it was this one. Don’t Lie A form of lying (to yourself) and to others is to espouse overly simplistic “truths” about the world. People who tell you that capitalism, the patriarchy, and the government are evil are engaged in self-delusion. … Read more
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Get While the Getting’s Good Life is suffering. Enjoy it while you can. We may be licensed to reason in this way since there is no denying the initial proposition, but it isn’t only that life is suffering. Human beings for thousands of years exhibited patterns of behavior that were somewhat predictable, but we never … Read more
A Religious Problem Peterson starts this chapter by stating that while the Columbine High School killers might not have been religious – they had a problem with reality, a problem that that had religious connotations. One of the members of the Columbine Duo writes about how he believed that the human race wasn’t worth fighting … Read more
My Notes for Maps of Meaning (2017) – Jordan Peterson Story And Meta-story (Part 2) Peterson’s sixth lecture covers the evolution of our traits, dominance hierarchies, motivational systems, and our sense of meaning. Evolution Complexity is mitigated through cooperation. While society can be oppressive, it’s better to succumb to its rules than to live in … Read more
When one considers how ready are the forces of young men for discharge, one does not wonder at seeing them decide so uncritically and with so little selection for this or that cause: that which attracts them is the sight of eagerness for a cause, as it were the sight of the burning match-not the … Read more
Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson had a two hour exchange over the definition of truth in 2017. If you have the hard luck of having a friend who’s philosophically inclined and unlikely to let a single statement pass unchallenged, you’ll feel right at home when listening to the conversation. If not, you’ll probably switch off … Read more
My Notes For Maps Of Meaning 2 (2017) – Jordan Peterson My Notes For Maps Of Meaning 2 (2017) – Jordan Peterson Maps of Meaning 2 – Fallible Conscience The introduction to Jiminy Cricket appears in Maps of Meaning 2. He is Pinocchio’s clumsy fallible conscience. While imperfect, the conscience (bug) is My Notes … Read more