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The Fury Over Jordan Peterson

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Rarely in my life have I read a more hostile or vicious takedown of a public figure than last week’s New York Times profile of Canadian author and psychologist Jordan Peterson. Rarely have I witnessed a more bizarre and bad-faith interview of a public figure than journalist Cathy Newman’s January interrogation of Peterson on Britain’s Channel 4 News. Few public figures inspire more vitriol and mockery on Twitter than, you guessed it, Jordan Peterson. And never before have I seen vitriol so out of proportion to the “threat” of the man’s underlying message.

...The problem, however, was a failure to thrive. The new culture left too many young men behind. The new, fractured family claimed too many lives. When “deaths of despair” are so prevalent that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful nation now faces declining life expectancies, it’s hard to argue for the unqualified success of the modern leftist cultural project
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And so the left looks out and sees the flames in its own camp. And there's Jordan Peterson with a match. But they left the kindling all around. Their project failed to address the deepest human longings and failed to recognize fundamental human nature. Peterson steps in and offers a way to find meaning in life again using the left's own language and methods. Apostasy!

They are not enjoying the cultural landscape these days with the school shootings, declining life spans, rampant drug abuse and overdose deaths, and other evidence of human despair and alienation. "Progress" this is not. But it is a landscape of their own making, and they know how to fix it! That is, give them more power and money the better to screw things up even worse.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/jordan-peterson-new-york-times-hostility/

In other news: 5 Reasons for School Shootings.

  1. Broken homes.
  2. Broken homes.
  3. Broken homes.
  4. Broken homes.
  5. Broken homes.
 
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