The Failures of Modern Psychiatry and Psycho-Therapy and Counselling
An Analysis of Dr. Jordan Peterson
Dr. Jordan Peterson is an internationally
famous and acclaimed psychologist and psycho-therapist. His many works,
including Maps of Meaning, have changed the field of psychology,
introducing new insights into the field and innovative new techniques.
His wide readings of top psychologists psychiatrists, philosophers and
historians combined with his own experiences with patients over many
years have been an important contribution to the field of psychology.
He is correct and accurate in some of his analysis, but there are
important flaws and defects in his views and work. Some parts of his
work are very controversial and there is a lack of full consensus among
experts. I will examine these defects and flaws below:
Social Dominance Hierarchies- Satanic Hierarchies
Jordan Peterson mentions the social dominance hierarchy
many times and the fact that it is millions of years old and applies to
many species including humans. He believes that people should adjust
to and conform to this social dominance hierarchy and seek to rise
within this hierarchy. He appears to support the social dominance
hierarchy. This is the same hierarchy which enforces the worst evils - injustices, political and legal corruption, false imprisonments, white collar crimes, cover ups of paedophile rings and drug crime by the elite, wars, conflicts and regime changes based on lies, Globalism or the new Imperialism, discrimination and prejudices which poison societies, etc.. This hierarchy is the Satanic Hierarchy and Peterson believes it is justified and should be obeyed.
He also ignores or neglects the highly destructive effects of
the Environment which in most cases was and is still created by the social dominance
hierarchy and is maintained and enforced by it. There are several
problems with Jordan Peterson's views:
Firstly a social dominance
hierarchy tends to be insular, self perpetuating, self protective
and forcefully exclusive. There are in-built mechanisms of prejudice,
discrimination, deliberate social deprivation, stigmatisation,
selective business policies, insider trading, exclusive secret
societies, exclusive social networks, corrupt government contracts,
excessive high school and University fees and expenses which
exclude many, dating and marriage discrimination, rigid class
distinction and race distinction, sectarianism, etc. to prevent
persons from entering and / or rising up within this hierarchy.
Hierarchies depend on exclusion and on denigration, belittlement,
distrust and even hatred of those who are excluded or considered
below them. And this hatred is often expressed violently whether
through forceful social exclusion, verbal abuse, violence, slandering,
put downs, gossip, illegal use of the police,false accusations,
framing people for crimes, etc.. It is a a form of "identity politics",
where those inside the exclusive social group have one identity and
everybody outside has another more inferior identity. Peterson claims to
despise 'identity politics', yet unknowingly supports it through
acceptance of the social dominance hierarchy. The current world where
the richest 1% are getting richer and richer depicts a world
where opportunities for major social and economic advancement are
confined to the richest 1 – 3 % of a population.
Social Dominance hierarchies do not take
responsibility as they run sophisticated tax havens where trillions of
dollars are held offshore to evade taxes and regulations, mainly in
western nations. Estimated at $40 trillion globally. This money is
recycled or invested in lucrative markets around the world such as real
estate speculation in big cities and other speculation activities and
activaly used to suck even more wealth out of countries worldwide and
hide it away in tax havens. This is repeated many times as accumulated
money in tax havens is recycled (or washed) again and again and used to
amass even greater fortunes. This specualtion prices many ordinary
working class people out of the market in many countries. This offshore
wealth has grown exponentially since 1980. This deprives countries,
governments and peoples of tax revenues to develop their schools,
public infrastructure, hospitals, policing, legal systems and justice,
training and skills, etc. and pushes countries into higher levels of
debt. It enforces debt slavery and tax slavery among the working class
and middle class and it also enforces oligarchy and tyranny and actively
attacks democracy, rights, responsibilities, social justice, and social
order. It is a direct attack on democracy. This affects both western
developed countries, and developing countries. For example, research
shows that Africa has been robbed of trillions of dollars in tax
revenues, natural resources revenues, and international loans since
1970.
This system robs hundreds of millions of people of their
true potential in life and is a significant contributing factor to
global poverty. The social dominance hierarchy ruthlessly enforces this
and maintains this.
Peterson like many others fails to understand the
negative and destructive effects of this. He naively ignores this and
its effects, while supporting the social dominance hierarchies which
enforce it.
Peterson states that social dominance
hierarchies may be millions of years old, but so is murder, robbery,
rape, paedophilia, crime etc. ; does this longevity justify them ? The
social dominance hierarchies were enforced through violence,
intimidation, imprisonment, torture, murder, theft, pillage, crimes,
death, fear, hate, envy for centuries. Pure criminality. This was
discussed above. They have left a strong imprint on the mind and the
collective unconscious and collective conscious of humanity, turning
people into obedient sheep or slaves, and blocking and stifling reform
and change for decades and centuries. Some of these corrupt entities
exist in the form of royalty and aristocracy today, and have
considerable property and land holdings. Jordan Peterson ignores and
dismisses the criminal nature of this over centuries, while he
inadvertently facilitates obedience to it. He lacks the integrity, moral
bravery, and intellectual depth to challenge, discredit, undermine,
reform, change this hierarchy or structure and everything it has
represented.
Jordan Peterson needs to realise that
most social dominance hierarchies are not hierarchies of competence
but hierarchies of incompetence, corruption, irresponsibility,
excessive greed and dishonesty. According to the IMF we have had
425 systemic crashes between 1970 and 2010. This consisted of 145
banking crashes, 204 monetary collapses, and 76 sovereign debt crises.
The government and central bank bail outs of banks, big corporates and
the rich, amounted to over $15 trillion globally after 2008 and in
addition to this there was the continuing corporate welfare and
corporate subsidies amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars
per year. the cost to the American economy of the financial
crash and accompanying deep recession in terms of lost output, gdp,
productivity, bail outs, higher unemployment, lost revenues and earnings
has been estimated at $24 trillion (Dr. William K. Black), a truly
massive loss. The financial crash of 2008 also led to the loss of 9
million jobs and 6 million evictions from family homes in the USA.
There were similar massive losses of trillions of euros for Europe
including Ireland, Britain, Spain, Cyprus, Greece, Portugal, Italy,
etc.. Globally 34 million people lost their jobs and $26 trillion was
wiped off the value of shares. In addition to this, many businesses and
banks are underperforming and failing for these same reasons and also
due to the fact that aggregate demand (and accompanying higher sales,
revenues, profits, innovations) is being suppressed through excessive
concentrations of wealth and accompanying inequalities and government
policies which facilitate this.
This proves that social dominance hierarchies are often
based on incompetence, corruption, irresponsibility, excessive greed
and dishonesty. Yet, governments, businesses and banks are continuing
with the same policies which caused these crashes in the past, and this
will cause crashes in the future. Do we want more crashes and more
bail outs and austerity costing taxpayers trillions of dollars /
euros in the future ? Would Jordan Peterson be prepared to
financially pay for these failures ?
Many social dominance hierarchies arose
from banking which created money out of nothing and lent it out at
interest to people in the form of loans and mortgages. Creating money
out of nothing is counterfeiting and a crime, but there are special
rules which allow bankers to commit this counterfeiting and crime. This
enables vast fortunes to be made by banks during speculation booms and
economic booms. While during crashes the banks seize property and assets
from people, families and businesses, and sell them for profit, while
also making money from pay outs on loan and mortgage insurance. And if
banks fail, then the politicians and governments will bail them out.
This is an example of social dominance hierarchies built on
conterfeiting and crime and the use of bail out monies, in addition to
the other factors mentioned in the section above. Jordan Peterson fails
to comprehend this aspect of social dominance hierarchies,and has failed
to expose it in his lectures.
Many people who rise within social
dominance hierarchies are sycophants, ass kissers, conformists, 'yes
men', blackmailers, backstabbers and backbiters and 'group thinkers' who
support every type of corruption, bad business deals, bad decisions,
short termist thinking, etc.. They tend to stifle an organisation and
endanger an organisation through focussing on maximising short term
individual gains at the expense of the business, the investors, the
organisation..
Social dominance hierarchies tend to
glorify greed, selfishness, self-centredness, superficiality and poison
the souls of people. The poisoning of people’s souls is the worst form
of crime, as it creates and re-creates many more evils, crimes and
wrongs which adversely affect and hurt greater and greater numbers of
people. They set people against each other in many ways, they cheapen
and devalue human life, and they make one class of persons falsely
believe they are superior to others and another class falsely believe
that they are inferior to others and create conditions for all manne rof
strife. The USA under Neo Liberal economics (since 1981) has had the
highest rate of people in prison in the world and continuing high rates
of crime, divorce, seperations, community breakdown, loneliness,
alcohol and drug abuse, etc.
Social dominance hierarchies have had
unusually high numbers of paedophiles in them. This was true in the
past and remains true today. The power and social status associated
with social dominance hierarchies enabled these people to escape
investigation and prosecution for these crimes and other crimes. Jordan
Peterson praises social dominance hierarchies while ignoring their dark
side. Indeed, excessive praise of these social dominance hierarchies has
created the conditions for their crimes to exist and flourish. This is
discussed further in Point 2 below.
Adjusting to social dominance
hierarchies can lead to resentment, bitterness, anger, jealousy,
revenge, hatred, lack of empathy, etc. and to moral cowardice, and to
related problems of alcoholism, drug addiction, domestic abuse,
bullying, anti social behaviour, crime. I refer Jordan Peterson to the
section 'The Destructive Effects of High levels of Inequality
Accompanied by High Levels of Disrespect, Hatred, Prejudice and
Discrimination' above which deals with the effects of extreme
inequalities in several countries and compares them with more equal
countries.
The unfortunate fact is that many
millions of highly intelligent and competent children from poor and
deprived families in developed countries and developing countries never
get the chance to develop their talents and realise their potential.
The same applies for those who are deliberately socially excluded in the
developed world and western countries. And as wealth becomes more and
more concentrated, this will deprive many more millions of these
children from realising their full potential in life. Furthermore most
people at the bottom of the social dominance hierarchy work very hard
but they receive very little or no reward. Their income is determined
by a corrupted economic system which belittles and denigrates their
work, their self worth, their self esteem and their dignity, and
impoverishes those working at the mid to low end of the hierarchy. But,
it vastly rewards those at the top of the hierarchy, rewards which are
well beyond their productivity, utility and social value. This is based
on superficial value judgments, outdated belief systems, and artificial
mental constructs, imposed by elites at the top of the hierarchy to
protect their own positions and rob those lower down the hierarchy.
Fools, even among academics naively support this. The facts show that
many people at the top of the social dominance hierarchy are incompetent
and dysfunctional, as shown in the financial crash of 2008, and the
many other crashes throughout history, the corrupt and dysfunctional
political systems, the dysfunctional health systems, the ineffective and
dysfunctional legal systems and crime prevention systems, and failed
housing systems, the disastrous international relations, and the
widespread environmental destruction. In fact those people at the top
are highly incompetent, dysfunctional, ignorant, irrational, inept, and
hopeless, they have negative productivity.
The economic system is deliberately rigged and skewed to favour those at
the top of the social dominance hierarchy and excessively reward them,
and marginalise and impoverish most of the population. A massive
international casino has been created since the early 1980's where vast
amounts of money created out of nothing by banks is used for mass
speculation and gambling, and rigging to enrich those on the inside.
Insiders make vast wealth (tax free) while outsiders or those at the mid
to lower level of the hierarchy are forced to accept lower living
standards (and fully taxed). And this creates great instabilities in the
financial system, banks, businesses, investment, government finances
(bail outs) and in social systems. It destroys the fabric of society
such as the social systems, the families and communities which are vital
for human life. This fact has been revealed and discussed by Nobel
Laureates such as Stiglitz, Krugman, Shiller and others in papers,
lectures and books. It also been the subject of a new book New World
Disorder by Egan. Peterson appears to be completely ignorant about the
destructive nature of this failed economic system.
The world has limited resources and a growing concentration of
resources and wealth in the top 1 - 3 % naturally leads to less
resources for everybody else. In many countries University or third
level education is becoming more unaffordable to the masses due to big
government cutbacks in education over time so the government can bail
out rich bankers, speculators and business people, give more tax breaks
to the rich, launder more money in tax havens, provide more over-priced
contracts to the rich, and cover up vast misappropriations of funds at
government level amounting to trillions of dollars. Cutbacks to high
school and primary school education and to community supports to help
build up the intellectual, responsibility and working capacity of
deprived families and individuals has worsened this. While the massive
debt levels of recent University graduates just adds to this large scale
skewing of limited resources to favour those at the top of the
hierarchy who own most of the wealth and bank deposit / savings funds
and capital.
The present inequalities and social dominance hierarchies where the
richest 1% are getting richer and richer are actually working against
greater realisation of human potential, greater competence, harder and
more productive work, and higher productivity for the human race.
Peterson is wrong.
Long historical experience has taught
humanity that slavishly conforming to social dominance hierarchies
leads to (a) tyranny of the left wing or the right wing (b) oligarchy
and a high level of misery, suffering, excessive debt, poverty and
anxiety for most people (c) the conditions for rebellion and revolution
which leads to new tyrannies of the left wing or the right wing.
Peterson forgets to mention that social
dominance hierarchies prior to the 19th century such as that of the
catholic church and other churches and kings and emperors led to the
murder of many millions of innocent people, the torture and the
oppression of millions, and to many other evils and injustices. He
cannot comprehend that social dominance hierarchies which are
centralised, corrupt, greedy, undemocratic and oligarchic create the
same problems today as they did over thousands of years. The same
human stupidity still exists, despite technological advances and the
presumed advances in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, politics,
philosophy and ‘civilization’. I would advise Jordan Peterson to read www.healingcentres.org/law.htm
Blindly accepting social dominance
hierarchies, as now proposed by Jordan Peterson, would have destroyed
democracy in the 18th century and destroyed movements for national
sovereignty then ; many of us today would be living within
imperialistic empires run by kings and queens. Yet today social
dominance hierarchies led by the richest 1% are trying to undermine and
destroy democracy and democratic and human rights in many developed
countries and developing countries in the interests of creating a
tyrannical, oligarchic and corrupt ‘New World Order’ (to use the
phrase of some leading politicians, bankers and business people).
Is Jordan Peterson guilty of moral cowardice ?
Social dominance hierarchies were established through
political corruption and legal system corruption, banking corruption,
abuses of power, murder, torture, plunder, theft, rape, unnecessary
wars (often called ‘regime change'), the use of elite paedophile rings,
white collar crime, the bankrupting of banks and whole nations, and the
perversion of society. Most police, public prosecutors, court
officials, and legal systems refuse to investigate and prosecute the
very rich and powerful, as they have powerful business, political and
legal friends and allies. In most cases, the legal system is rigged to
protect corrupt rich people and senior government people and employees
of the state. Those police and prosecutors who have investigated and
tried to prosecute elite paedophile rings and corruption by politicians,
government employees, banks and powerful people have suffered the
following:
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been blocked and intimidated by their superiors in the police or department of justice
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had their careers, families and lives threatened
- have had false charges made against them
- have been set up or entrapped through stings and honey traps
- been offered bribes of large amounts of money
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have had files or evidence go missing
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witnesses intimidated
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victims and/or witness testimonies mysteriously changed
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have had cases mysteriously dropped by prosecutors
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have had judges undermine them
- illegal interference by secret societies
in some cases
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have had political interference from politicians and government ministers
Furthermore these police have been bullied and intimidated by
other police and in many cases, they have been forced to leave the
police and end their careers. Many police whistleblowers are coming
forward to tell their story to news and media in Europe, North America
and some parts of Asia. And importantly there is also the fact that
the rich and powerful can afford the best lawyers and barristers to
find loopholes and other means of manipulation to escape justice. The
case of paedophile rings used and run by the powerful elite in several
countries is an excellent case study. The Jimmy Saville case in Britain
is one of many such cases. Others include widespread rapes of women in
Japan and some other eastern countries which are not punished by the
police and prosecutors, as there is still gender bias against women.
Here is just one of many examples:
These crimes by elites are detailed further in www.healingcentres.org/law.htm
and I would strongly advise Jordan Peterson to read
this web page. Can Peterson's mind process the fact that dominant social
hierarchies in developed countries (and developing countries) can
commit serious crimes and get away with them as they have the ability to
use the social dominance hierarchy to forcefully cover up these crimes
? Jordan Peterson is always preaching about responsibility ; should
Peterson demand greater responsibility and accountability by those at
the top of the social dominance hierarchy, including government
ministers, senior police, judges, public prosecutors, lawyers, senior
civil servants, lobbyists, and bankers ? Is Jordan Peterson guilty of
moral cowardice ?
Has Jordan Peterson ever protested against, publicly
condemned and marched against political and legal corruption, police
corruption, modern wars or regime changes based on greed and power,
social class bigotry, religious bigotry, racism, social injustices,
vast inequalities in wealth and income ?? Does he believe in freedom,
democracy, democratic rights, human rights and human dignity, does he
actively work for it ? does he believe in taking responsibility for this
? or is he working against it by supporting the status quo, those at
the top of the social dominance hierarchy, the oligarchies and big
brother technologies which are undermining and destroying democracies
and freedom.
Peterson should read the section 'Structures of Causation - The Role of the Environment and Negative Environmental Feedback mechanisms' on this web site as it will explain to him the causal factors for
human conflict and disharmony in the world. He should focus on the
Collective Unconscious and Collective Conscious and the Core Issues mentioned in that section above. The social dominance hierarchy and
it's ideologies and structures of control create conditions of
conflict, disharmony and chaos in the world. It presumes this chaos to
be normal, socially acceptable, respectable, natural, etc. when it is
the opposite and consistently produces negative results. The attack on
the self esteem, dignity and respect of individuals produces very bad
results or consequences, and I would advise Peterson and those people
like him to consider this very carefully.
Order and Chaos
There is a very thin line between order and chaos. Different
configurations of chaos are often misrepresented as order and appear to
be order. Beneath the thin veneer of respectability with its designer
suits and expensive lifestyles, the social dominance hierarchy which
impose this "order" have been proven to be totally corrupt, murderous,
unjust, malicious, hateful, perverted and barbarous. This is discussed
in the points above and in sections above. Their version of "order"
facilitates, imposes and aids and abets disorder, chaos and barbairty.
This so called "order" dominates countries and mindsets today. It
is sometimes called the 'cesare borgia complex' where the most corrupt,
unjust and most criminal of people dominate and control whole societies,
and the ordinary people behave like sheep and just bow, crawl and obey
while struggling to survive (on scraps). The system is
intrinsically chaotic, disordered, corrupt, unjust, evil, etc. and this
negatively affects all persons in the hierarchy from top to bottom.
Peterson accepts this disoder and chaos and believes it to be order and
calls it order.
Jordan Peterson should address the net effects of this
false "order" or the chaos and disorder created by social dominance
hierarchies and many religions in the modern world and throughout human
history such as :
(a) create events in the Environment which
cause major traumatic shock to the brain, the nervous system and the
body, which severely alters brain function, thinking patterns,
perception, and behaviour. This can lead to unsocial, anti-social,
negative, aggressive, cruel, withdrawn, sad, reclusive, demotivated, or
abnormal behaviour, depending on the personality, his / her resilience,
and the level of trauma.This tends to feed itself, perpetuate itself,
and reinforce itself over time, so that it becomes engrained in one's
character and consciousness, and it can persist for years, decades and
whole lifetimes. Negative and destructive Environments can intensify and
magnify this, and also have various feedback mechanisms which reinforce
this. (b) destroys the self worth, self esteem,
respect and dignity of individuals. The destruction of respect between
individuals has multiple domino effects. (c) destroys the free will of people. There
is no free will. There is programmed will, brainwashed will,
traumatised will, pained will, diminshed will. (d) destroys equality of opportunity
through severely limiting opportunities and associated resources. It
also destroys the ability and capacity to avail of opportunities. It
narrows the consciousness. (e) creates perpetual cycles of damage and
pain, and this creates cycles of hate, cycles of revenge and hard
heartedness, cycles of addiction and cycles of chaos. It also destroys
empathy. (f) destroys love in all of its forms (g) it perverts and twists values and
meanings so that they become negative, hypocritical, ignorant, hateful
and judgmental, and destroy the mind and the soul. (h) destroys vast amounts of human
potential and human possibilities. Including the human potential for
good, for harmony and peace, for happy relationships, for advancement
of science, commerce, trade, the arts, civilisation, consciousness /
spirituality. These are major losses.
Peterson's solutions appear to ignore this, and encourage
surrender or acceptance of it, and reinforce the malicious, vicious and
evil forces which have perpetuated this for a very long time.
There is a need for Peterson to re-evaluate his own views and
address these issues as they arise today and as they arose throughout
history and contributed to the modern mindset and world.
The Opposite of Moral Cowardice
Throughout history people such as Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy,
JFK, Gandhi, Washington, Jefferson, Paine, Franklin, Madison, Hume,
Kant, Bentham, Wilberforce, Hardie, Devoy, Pearse, Clarke, Collins,
Voltaire, Rousseau, Diderot, Montesquieu, Martin Luther, Roosevelt,
Keynes, Pankhurst, Lincoln and the abolitionists challenged the social
dominance hierarchy, fought it, protested against it, and over time
changed it. The Enlightenment in the late 18th century was brought about
by people who went against the status quo of politics and religion, and
risked their lives. They were considered "radical" as they opposed and
challenged tradition and social dominance hierarchies. The Enlightenment
and later the labour rights movement, children's rights movement, the
nationalist movements, and the womens right to vote, etc. were all
opposed by people very similar to Jordan Peterson such as kings,
emperors, princes, popes, clergy, corrupted politicians and their
academics and advisors. They supported the social dominance hierarchies
and their continued opporessionn of the people.
Peterson proposes too much acceptance of the social dominance hierarchy
and its policies and its agenda, and he encourages too much surrender
and acquiescence to it. This can stifle social progress. In todays
world oligarchy is replacing democracy, as corrupt politicians are
bought and the laws, court appontments, court decisions, regulations and
government policies are bought by the very rich. And this is worsening
as the richest 1% become richer and new oppressive laws such as the
Patriot acts and NDAA become more widespread. And a new wave of
criminality, paedophilia and corruption by the social dominance
hierarchy has gone un-investigated and un-prosecuted since the 1980's.
Peterson's works lack a coherent model and platform for real social
innovation. Peterson just supports the status quo, the social dominance
hierarchy, the oligarchies which are replacing democracies and the
horrific crimes and abuses being committed against ordinary people.
Peterson supports the Neville Chamberlain complex of surrendering to
the many types of tyrants who have ruined humanity for a long time.
Reforms
Jordan Peterson does not propose a means for making social
dominance hierarchies more democratic, more representative of the
people, flatter, more accountable to the people and to laws, more just
and less corrupt, and more open and transparent. He does not propose
structures of accountability for governments and for the richest 1% or
those at the top of the social dominance hierarchy. He proposes nothing
which would stimulate democratic changes and provide a means for
(Hegelian) dialectical change over time, which would increase freedoms
and accompanying responsibilities, increase human potential, and bring
humanity to higher consciousness and higher evolutionary levels.
Yet Peterson is highly critical and judgmental of those
people at the lower levels of the social dominance hierarchy. There is a
tendency for him to blame the victim and pick soft targets. Yet the
dynamic of society is set by those at the top of the social dominance
hierarchy, and they set the rules, the government policies and resource
allocations, the taxes, the laws, the business policies, and what
appears in the mass media and what the social norms are.
The Moral Cowardice of the Middle Class
Peterson does not challenge the self contented and self
serving middle classes who slavishly obey the dictates of those at the
top of the social dominance hierarchy while condemning, demonising and
destroying those at the bottom of this hierarchy. The middle class have
become far "too busy", they are always busy, perpetually busy, too self
interested, self serving and selfish to work for social justice, an end
to political corruptio and legal corruption, wider distributions of
wealth and income (not communism) and greater fairness, more social
cohesion and social solidarity instead of narrow, hateful, violent and
irresponsible individualism, and for higher consciousness and better
societies. His middle class views just reinforce the current social
dominance hierarchy while judging, condemning and castigating those who
are socially and economically excluded.
Promoters of Chaos and Disorder - The Wider Effects of Moral Cowardice
Peterson should more carefully analyse the reasoning and
the motives behind the so called “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq
in 2003 which never existed and the ‘regime changes’ being pushed by
neo cons in the USA. And the murders and genocide, robbery, pillage and
destruction in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, etc.
resulting from these invasions and regime changes started by those at
the top of the social dominance hierarchy. Does Peterson realise that it
is those people lower down the social dominance hierarchy who pay with
the loss of their lives, families, property, freedom, etc. Has Peterson
heard about or read the Program for The New American Century and its
publications and policies invented by the neo cons who are obsessed
with war, regime changes and their profitability, and which have become
official US government policy for over 17 years ? He should carefully
contemplate the disorder and chaos created by the neo cons or those at
the top of the social dominance hierarchy and write more about it.
This would inform his own consciousness and the collective consciousness
of humanity. The following picture of regime changes and wars may help
refresh the memory of Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson mentions the nazi
concentration camps and soviet gulags many times, yet he never digs
deeply for root causes. He skims on the surface and provides
superficial analysis. Peterson should read this entire section and the
following section ' The Importance of Stigma, Prejudices, Slander,
Gossip, Incitements to Hatred and Structured Injustices in the
Environment and within the Collective Unconscious' for root causes and
answers.
Identity Politics
Peterson mentions ‘identity politics’ many times and
criticises it. The fact is that identity politics has been present in
the human race for over 1 million years, since man first became
upright. Even the neanderthals and modern man had identity politics
issues. The many wars between tribal groups, between races, between
nations, between empires, and between religions and the many civil wars
and faction wars over history and the disgraceful treatment of women
and coloured people over this time and up to the present day points to
the fact that ‘identity politics’ is with us and will always be with us.
The struggle for national freedom and sovereignty for most of the 20th
century was a reaction against the colonialism of previous centuries.
It engrained identity politics in many countries and this still exists
today. In more modern times, it includes a reaction against federalist
structures and the new economic and geo-political colonialism disguised
as "regime changes". Identity politics continues to be a strong force
in the world today.
Identity Politics is firmly engrained at the top of the
social dominance hierarchy. Among the richest 1% and the most powerful,
there will always be a tendency for them to associate together and to
discriminate against those they deem to be ‘inferior’. And the middle
class tend to copy the lifestyles and mannerisms of the very rich and
this replicates the same bigotry, discrimination and social exclusion
at the middle of social dominance hierarchy. The middle class are highly
judgmental of those they consider to be ‘inferior’, and extremely
insulting of such people. This is the identity politics of the rich and
the middle class and they are among the strongest supporters of
identity politics. Those like Peterson who support the social dominance
hierarchy also unwittingly support such identity politics. This
identity politics both instigates even more divisions and also new forms
of identity politics as humans become even more divided against each
other and more seperated from the Source or Prime Creator (also referred
to as God). Humanity is deeply divided against itself, on many issues
of identity and indeed presumed identity, and yet they possess no
understanding of these divisions and the origins and deeper meanings of
life / existence. The superificial origins of these divisions and the
hate and violence they cause are never questioned or examined. Its much
easier to exist in ignorance, inflated egos and arrogance and being
excessively "busy" or "very busy". Indeed most people are far too busy
being ignorant and remaining ignorant.
Of course, one can decide to ignore these facts about
identity politics and identity war, and falsely claim to be "against
identity politics", but that does not change anything as they continue
to exist and impose a heavy cost on individuals and societies.
Religion and Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson naively states that religion and perceptions
of God can lead to better individuals and better societies. The history
of religous bigotry and warfare for over 2,000 years proves him wrong
again. He needs to understand that religion has been hijacked by
hypocrites and bigots for a long time, and their obsession is to judge,
hate, incite hatred and violence against others and to control and
dominate people. Hate not love is the core of religions. The evidence
of history is there to prove it, "by their fruits shall ye know them".
This important realisation will enlighten many people worldwide.
Religion has :
supported the oppression, mistreatment and denigration of women for thousands of years and today
corrupt patriarchal societies including
monarchies, empires and invasions and oppression of countries,
dictatorships throughout history
religious war, Inquisitions, discrimination and sectarian bigotry
compulsory celibacy which led to even more
sexual perversions including secret affairs, adultery, unmarried
mothers and paedophilia
ignored paedophilia in the church and covered up paedophilia
mistreated many millions of children
preached self hatred and destroyed self esteem and self confidence of many
segregation in schools and the worsening of religious discrimination, prejudices, suspicions and hatreds
presumptions of
infallibility and the many errors which emerge from this
the enrichment preachers, priests,
tele-evangelists and ministers, especially in the USA and
a few other developed countries, while ignoring the
poverty, the injustices, and the corruption which was destroying the
religious message and whole societies
suffered contradictions throughout history
and corruption at the highest levels of religion. Corruption which
facilitates wealth accumulation and egos at the top, and the grinding
down of the vulnerable, the naieve and the poor.
accepted the status quo and ignored
political corruption and legal system corruption, economic injustices,
human rights abuses, and other evils in the modern world and for
centuries, and encouraged people to accept these evils.
failed to confront evil in the world. They
do not take responsibility and do not encourage followers to take
responsibility. Total neglect of moral and ethical burdens necessary
for justice, accountability, fairness and integrity in societies. Some
believe in a "messiah" who dies and relieves people of all
responsibilities and duties in life, and this allows evil and hell to
thrive on earth.
preach the denigration, the shaming, the hating, the
judging, the condemning and the putting
down of individuals. And ordinary people use this against
each other to undermine, denigrate and destroy each other.
Religion's denigration and condemnation of the individual
which begins early in childhood leaves a lasting negative impact
creating hateful and judgmental individuals. It destroys the self worth,
self esteem, respect and dignity of individuals and turns them into
people who inflict this on other people. It creates vast numbers of
people who have their lives poisoned, they then poison the lives of
others, and poison whole societies. This creates all manner of
unhappiness, psychiatric, psychological, and physical illnesses and
contributes to divorces, seperations, and all types of human conflict.
During the 1930's many of Hitler's followers and supporters were devout
catholics and protestants and even included members of the clergy.
Peterson unfortunately cannot comprehend these facts.
Religion and perceptions of God are still very medieval
and primitive.
They lack depth of understanding, and they lack width in
terms of consciousness, infinite awareness and existence itself. Most
religious believers are superficial and have not read the scriptures of
their own religion. They lack understanding of the scriptures and of the
inner teachings and messages of their own religions and of how to
behave and how to treat others with respect. The core religious values
of hate, judgment and hypocrisy work against the very origins of and
reasons for religion, spirituality and God, and they produce results
which are anti God, as seen throughout history. Importantly they fail
to grasp the immensity, depth and complexity of God and in doing so they
perpetuate ignorance, narrow mindedness, and accompanying conflict.
Jordan Peterson ignores the many benefits of Secular
Humanism, Enlightenment ideals, Deism, Agnosticism, Democratic ideals,
and religious tolerance which have facilitated the development of new
ethics, moralities and ideals since the Enligtenment which were a major
improvement over the Inquisition, religious warfare and genocide,
hypocrisy and moral cowardice, superstition, bigotry and discrimination
which controlled societies for thousands of years. Thousands of years
of darkness, ignorance and evil are not justified by their longevity.
Humans are not programmed to be slaves of the past and past brainwashing
and indoctrination. They are creatures of change, of evolution of body,
mind, spirit, and consciousness. It is correct and ethical to oppose
the old, outdated, dark, evil and ignorant policies and viewpoints
imposed by social dominance hierarchies and their academic supporters
and apologists.
The Manipulation and Distortion of Meaning
Peterson keeps referring to meaning and claiming that
meaning can be derived by individuals. This is only partially true, as
there are deeper factors at play. For centuries and milennia social
dominance hierarchies have manipulated meaning to further their own
interests at the expense of the masses. They have relied on religion and
private and public education to create vast armies of dumbed down and
ignorant slaves to conform and meekly obey the social dominance
hierarchies and their agenda. Subservience to the social dominance
hierarchy whether it is a monarch, emperor, pope, archbishop, czar,
fuhrer, general secretary, commissar, director, CEO, dictator, general
in charge of government, etc. was and is deeply engrained in
consciosnesses. Central to this is the manipulation and distortion of
meaning itself, which has had a very profound effect at the individual
and collective levels. The manipulation and distortion of meaning has
created vast amounts of suffering for many millions of people for
milennia and have allowed the worst evils, injustices, ignorance,
hypocrisy and darkness to dominate. So called "fake news" has been
around for thousands of years. It is well known that history is written
to suit the interests of the conquerors and those at the of the social
dominance hierarchy. Peterson fails to understand the depth and breadth
of this manipulation and distortion of meaning, and the fact that it has
over time become engrained in the Collective Unconscious.
This manipulation and distortion of meaning led to
outrageous abuses and injustices which caused revulsion and opposition
and led to the rise of extreme right wing and extreme left wing
movements and governments in the 20th century as peoples sought
alternative paths to "progress". Each of these right wing and left wing
governments performed in a similar fashion to the prior regimes which
dominated for milennia, imposing the same types of leadership,
oppression, tyranny, injustices, wars and genocides and the same
attempts to manipulate and distort meaning. One observed the same
processes taking place but different actors. The sad fact is that the
intensive mental programming and brainwashing which manipulated meaning
for centuries and milennia remained and continued to dominate, like an
undercurrent, during all these changes and turmoil in the 20th century,
and still dominates today. The Collective Unconscious is not something
to be discarded, denied, ignored, and trivialised.
Discrimination
Throughout history many good, hard working, honest and
decent people (who stood tall with shoulders back and "cleaned their
rooms") who followed the rules of society were subjected to
oppression, wrongful imprisonment, dispossession, injustices,
discrimination, death, famine (Irish Famine and Genocide), suffering and
abuses by the state or those at the top of the social dominance
hierarchy. This contradicts Peterson’s message and writings. Today
the same thing is happening. For example, those people suffering
disability are at the highest risk of suffering discrimination in
employment and this is followed by those of a different colour, race,
religion, gender etc. ; all of these are in many cases treated
with great disrespect, disdain, discrimination and are subject to
many prejudices, abuses and injustices. Laws, rules, policies,
loopholes, etc. to enforce discrimination and stigma all serve the
narrow interests of those people at the top of the social
dominance hierarchy.
This discrimination is often concealed, subtle and hidden in
employment, career advancement, legal system outcomes, court
decisions, funding of public schools, availability of public housing
and provision of healthcare in western nations and developed nations.
Though its obviously worse in developing countries, due to even
more outrageous distributions of wealth and income and worse
corruption and abuses. He tries to ignore this, under-state this,
dismiss it as irrelevant, belittle it, mock it etc. but the facts
are there. Its particularly sad to see disabled people willing to work
and being refused work on grounds of disability discrimination.
Peterson appears to ignore this in his writings and he certainly
neglects to address the issue in terms of rational and effective
solutions.
Brain Chemicals
Jordan Peterson accepts the brain chemicals theory as fact. He should read the section Lack of Brain Chemicals Fallacy and Myth on this web page and study the scientific facts showing that lack of
brain chemicals do not play a role in diagnosing and treating mental
illnesses and emotional illnesses. Other factors including environment
and experiences play the main role in the development of mental and
emotional illnesses.
Rights and Responsibilities
Peterson mentions that rights come with responsibilities.
This is correct and accurate. He calls for greater responsibility on the
part of those people at the middle to lower end of the social dominance
hierarchy. In fact he calls for greater submission and surrender to the
social dominance hierarchy, which itself is irresponsible. Social
dominance hierarchies have created vast amounts of mayhem and disorder
throughout history. Yet he never calls for more responsibility and
accountability for those at the top of the social dominance hierarchy.
Most of the serious political and government corruption, legal system
corruption, banking corruption, money creation corruption, business
corruption, lies and deceit, and serious injustices are at the top of
the social dominance hierarchy. He choses to ignore this. Ironically
Peterson praises and glorifies those people at the top of the social
dominance hierarchy. He should take more time out to research more
thoroughly the source of much corruption, social injustices, lies and
deceit, tribalistic divisions and hatreds, wars and regime changes, and
the prejudices and bigotry which is poisoning the souls and minds of
mankind. Peterson should reconsider his views and should call for
greater responsibility among those at the top of the social dominance
hierarchy and for deep political, economic and social reforms to realise
the high ideals of the Enlightenment and the UN Declarations.
Peterson offers superficial judgment of and condemnation of people
without getting to the root causes of much human unhappiness and
misery, loss of hope, loss of self esteem and lack of direction.
Causality and cause and effect cannot be ignored or presumed to be
unimportant..
There is a gender discrimination problem in many societies
which Peterson needs to wake up to. In 2017, there were 41,000 rapes in
Britain but the conviction rate for rape is about 6%. This means that
94% of rapes do not result in a conviction. No other crime in Britain
has such a low conviction rate. There is a tendency for lawyers and
barristers to slander and defame the character of women in court during
these cases. The press and media loves to denigrate, judge and undermine
women in these type of cases. Furthermore police and prosecutors have
had a long historical tendency to belittle, ignore and undermine these
women. The gender bias against women is still very strong in many
societies and this can influence investigations, prosecutions, court
decisions, and convictions. For example, in Japan, rape is rarely
investigated and prosecuted and many cases are covered up. The very low
convictions rates for rape in other countries point to problems of
gender bias which can undermine justice under law.
Bullying is a major cause of mental distress and trauma
and also mental and emotional illnesses. The school shootings and other
mass shootings in the USA have been linked to bullying and to
disrespect. Peterson fails to address this thoroughly in his works. The
major reason for bullying is the moral cowardice of the bystanders and
those people in authority, including academics and professors. Moral
cowardice is widespread and indeed encouraged by weak laws, weak anti
bullying policies, weak governance, and weak people. People have become
too politically correct, too eager to please, too tolerant of abuse, too
irresponsible, too eager not to rock the boat, too nice that they have
allowed tyrants to thrive in many societies. This has created vast
amounts of anger, resentment, hatred, aggression, conflict, etc.. This
has often exploded into ferocious violence as witnessed in the school
shootings and other mass shootings in the USA. Those at the top and
middle of the social dominance hierarchy have lost the ability to
implement the necessary polices, procedures, laws, physical restraints,
and structures to reduce or prevent bullying and treat those people
negatively affected by bullying. One sees a high level of incompetence,
stupidity, apathy, and ignorance among the professional classes at the
top and middle of this social dominance hierarchy.
Peterson fails to confront the shadow in a way which is
appropriate and effective. Most academics and professors worldwide are
guilty of this. Confronting the 'shadow' or the criminal, the
psychopathic, the evil, the tyrant requires violence in most cases,
often extreme violence using weapons, whether this violence is carried
out by police, military, or armed civilians. This may sound shocking
to liberals, progressives, pluralists, lefties, and religious liberals
and conservatives, but this is a fact of human nature and has been
proven true for thousands of years. There is a very thin veneer of
civilization in western countries, but beneath this veneer lies vast
amounts of crime, abuse, paedophilia, deception, corruption, injustices,
etc. which poisons life and the human soul. Western societies have
become too nice, too liberal, too soft, and too tolerant to confront the
shadow or evil, and have lost the ability and competence to defend
civilization and basic freedom. Liberalism with it's soft laws, soft
sentencing, and legal system and court corruptions have allowed to
'shadow' to thrive and create chaos in societies worldwide. One example
being the death penalty which acted to control and reduce the 'shadow'
throughout history, but today it is outlawed in many countries in
favour of soft sentences and generous parole. Western society needs to
reject this excessive liberalism, tolerance and weakness which is
destroying it from within, and embrace a new ideal where freedom is
protected through fulfilling one's responsibilities and punishing those
who transgress, and these punishments must be severe enough to deter,
frighten, bind down and control the 'shadow'. Re-introducing the death
penalty in certain cases, long jail sentences ranging from 30 to 100
years with no parole for violent crime and white collar crimes, the end
of soft sentencing, bringing in progressive increases in crime sentences
as more crimes are committed by an individual, harsher punishment of
all white collar crimes, the jailing of corrupt government officials and
state employees, forced rehabilitation for those people ruining many
lives through alcohol and drug abuse, encouraging work instead of
welfare and drinking / drugging, and stricter rules and policies to
deter bullying in schools, universities, work places, public places are
urgently needed. This has to be accompanied by responsibility training
in homes, schools, universities, training bodies, and workplaces, etc.
which would facilitate the creation of new societies where respect and
responsibility would play the dominant role in society.
What is Truth ?
Peterson tells people not to lie. But, he fails to realise
that most of life is a lie for the vast majority of humanity. Most
people are living a lie disguised as an interpretation of the truth.
Their lives are been twisted, perverted, undermined, manipulated,
destroyed, maligned by negative and hateful forces beginning in
childhood and extending throughout adulthood. This ruins their true
potential, their true selves. This turns peoples lives into lies. This
has been aided and abetted by weak, tolerant, liberal, submissive
societies which encourage every type of abuse, evil and corruption. The
20th century and 21st century destroyed vast amounts of human
potential and human possibilities. Including the human potential for
good, for harmony and peace, for happy relationships, for advancement
of science, commerce, trade, the arts, civilisation, consciousness /
spirituality
Furthermore many people have been deprived of resources by
systems which redistribute vast amounts of the earth's resources from
the poor to the very rich, the richest 1%. They have been deprived of
love, respect, dignity, self esteem, etc. by a system which grinds
people down and also artificially divides them through religion, race,
etc. and intensifies judgmental attitudes and hatreds. These have
destroyed the realisation of human potential and the true worth of many
individuals, and the basic truth of who they are and what they are. This
destruction of people is achieved for what goal or objective ? to
glorify the egotists, the bullies, the narcissists, the thieves, the
corrupters, the psychopaths, and the murderers at the top of the
hierarchy.
Fake news, lies, manipulations, denials and distortions of
the truth have long been used by major press and media corporations.
These are owned and controlled by those at the top of the social
dominance hierarchy, who use fake news and lies to serve their interests
and keep the masses of people ignorant, un-informed, divided and easily
controlled.
Peterson tells people to stand straight and hold their
shoulders back and act as if they are important and deserve respect.
This is good advice. Unfortunately this behaviour can encourage
others to more viciously attack the person whether through violence or
intimidation and harassment or through slander, gossip, and defamation.
This always leads to conflict. So Peterson's advice does not resolve
the problem, it merely exposes the individual to more attack and to more
conflict. Peterson does not address:
a)
the negative effects of social dominance hierarchies which attack and
grind people down, especially those at the mid to lower end of the
hierarchy
b) The Core Issues mentioned above which create artificial and hateful divisions between people and cause people to grind each other down
c) the negative effects of religions which preach the denigration, the
shaming, the hating, the judging, the condemning and the putting
down of individuals. Ordinary people use this against each other, and
many have suffered from the effects of malicious gossip, backbiting,
rumours and slanders
Malicious Gossip, Backbiting, Rumours and Slanders
Peterson does not address the destructive effects of
malicious gossip, backbiting, rumours and slanders, and he does not
propose solutions. The Bible states that the tongue or words have the
power to kill or give life. The Book of James in the Bible addresses
this problem in a thorough manner. Gossip kills people. Pope Francis
stated this in some of his writings and public sermons. Other religions
have similar teachings about gossip and slandering. All state that it
severely damages people and can kill. Many mental illnesses and
emotional illnesses and some physical illnesses are caused by this
activity. Yet Peterson and indeed many psychologists, psychiatrists and
health professionals ignore it.
Relationships, Marriages, Families
The social dominance hierarchy which emerged during the
Reagan and Thatcher years and is widespread today created new
generations of people who are selfish, self centred, cold and
calculating, hard hearted, greedy, unloving, hard faced, mean spirited,
judgmental, prejudiced and nasty. They worship money, wealth, status,
power and these form the basis of relationships and breeding. These are
the dominant traits in the modern world. This very judgmental,
critical, hateful, nasty and quite vicious environment poisons
individuals, relationships, families and marriages and causes many to
fail. Divorces, marital seperations, relationship breakdowns have been
high for many years in developed countries. The world is dominated by hate not by love. This is the most important fact and realisation in the modern world,
and one which Jordan Peterson needs to ponder very deeply. Many people
are single, unmarried, divorced, seperated and lonely because they are
rejected by this hateful, judgmental and vicious system. This poisoning
of people's souls and minds destroys people from within, and infects the
collective consciousness of humanity. The young and the naieve learn
this the hard way later in life. While health professionals and
professors learn it through their own bitter experience and the bitter
experiences of their patients. Yet Peterson appears to ignore these
important facts when supporting the social dominance hierarchy. Peterson
needs to analylse this more deeply and write / lecture more about it.
The oedipal complex is often wrongly applied
to people (aged 21 and older) who have chronic illnesses and are
forced to return to their parent’s homes. In many cases they are unable
to work due to chronic illness. The sad fact is that chronic illness
is quite widespread and growing due to
a)
an increasingly toxic environment which poisons food, water
and air and over consumption of dangerous fats and sugars
b)
the resistance of germs to antibiotics and anti-virals due
to over-use / abuse and too much concentration on a few synthetic
chemicals
c) high levels of stress at work
d) medical incompetence in diagnosing and treating chronic illnesses
When babies were born in the late 20th and early 21st
century they had hundreds of environmental toxins in their body,
transferred via the parent and the polluted environments. They are
already set up for a variety of terrible illnesses. Medical knowledge
about this varies from one of total ignorance to one of misinformation
to rare expertise. Ignorance is widespread in the health professions.
This pollution is largely caused by the profit drive of those at the
top of the social dominance hierarchy who dont care about the
environment or fellow humans. While the high stress levels at work are
inflicted on those at the middle to bottom of the hierarchy in order to
increase the profitability of those at the top. And again those at the
top don't care if too much stress kills people as they can be replaced
by more "rats on the treadmill".
Many seriously ill patients go from doctor to doctor
desperately looking for solutions. And many use up the scarce resources
of acute (or emergency) hospital services due to the fact that most
health services have no chronic illness treatment facilities. Most
health systems in developed countries are ignorant about chronic
illness and the massive financial and economic costs it imposes and they
lack the competence and insight to properly treat chronic illness, thus
many patients are neglected for years or left to die. Suicide is often
the best option for them. The term "neglected to death" or "harassed
to death" or "sickened to death" or "tortured to death" are appropriate
descriptions.
And then are cases where economic stagnation, economic
collapse or recession / depression which force many young people and
middle aged people into unemployment, under-employment and destitution
and in some cases back to their parents homes. The case of Greece after
the 2008 crash being one good example. Most of these people want to
work and earn good wages and have good relationships and live
independently with dignity, but they are denied this, shut out. The
denial of this points to serious defects in economics and politics.
Peterson is unable to understand the complexities of modern economics,
banking and politics.
The world is a very complex place, and is made more complex
by the factors mentioned above. Peterson and indeed other psychologists
and psychiatrists fail to factor these complexities into their views
and theories.
Jordan Peterson mentions freedom of speech
many times, but forgets to mention responsibility of speech. There are
responsibilities attached to the rights of free speech. Those who
exercise free speech have a right to exercise responsibilities while
doing so. For example, racists, nazis, communists, extreme left wingers
and right wingers, those working for the elite / covering up for them,
thugs and murderers, paedophiles, and religious bigots have a tendency
to insult others and incite hatred and violence against others, and
they believe that they have right to do this. And many use lies, deceit
and slanders to do this. Some even cite Jordan Peterson in their
defence while others blame him. These people do not understand that
freedom of speech is innately related to responsibility of speech, they
exist together, they come together. One’s responsibilities underpins
one’s rights. There is a responsibility, a duty, not to incite hatred
and violence against others and not to maliciously insult others. In
today’s world with it’s fake news and manipulation of news by elites,
it is difficult to establish what is really happening in the world. And
there is much censorship by elites and by the left wing and the right
wing. Fake news, lies and manipulations by politicians and news sources,
along with all the prejudices and hate inherited from the social
dominance hierarchy undermines the individual consciousness and
collective consciousness, and provides ample ground for
misunderstandings and conflict. and unfortunately makes positive and
constructive debate very difficult.
One should always research facts and evidence, including
that which is deliberately concealed (see Wiki-leaks and
whistleblowers) and use several verification techniques to arrive at
truths, and then state the facts and evidence in a rational and
reasonable manner with a view to getting one’s points across to other
people, and expressing truth, while making it clear that one does not
wish to incite hatred and violence against anyone. One should also be
open to the fact that one could be right or wrong, or partially right
or partially wrong, or that future research and analysis will need to
be undertaken to provide full clarification, and that all scientific
and human theories are subject to falsification as stated by Popper.
This level of rational and critical thinking is not taught in high
schools and Universities, though it should be taught there and made
compulsory in all educational institutions worldwide. This would help
reverse and end the dumbing down process in secondary schools and
Universities.
Peterson confuses both patriarchy and
matriarchy. The modern world is dominated by patriarchy and patriarchal
structures, thought processes, mindsets, reactions, and policies. This
has been the case for many millennia The evidence of history shows that
this has patriararchy has led to higher levels of aggression,
egocentric behaviour, greed, selfishness, hatred, intolerance and
prejudice, injustices, etc. and the many crimes, conflicts and wars
which naturally emerge from this. While some women have rose to power
within these patriarchies, these women were dominated by patriarchal
attitudes, concepts, processes and structures ; the whole being and
consciousness of these women was dominated by patriarchy. They were
not matriarchies because some women was in power, they were patriarchies
with a female face. These patriarchal women imposed patriarchal values
and policies just as much as men did. These patriarchal women
derived their strength from the patriarchy and had no understanding of
matriarchy and no desire to introduce it. In fact, patriarchal women
hate matriarchies and matriarchal values. Patriarchal women tend to be
hard faced, intolerant, judgmental and selfish and are every bit as
ruthless as patriarchal men. Women such as Margaret Thatcher were good
examples of patriarchal women. Peterson fails to understand this and to
explain this to his audience.
The press and media play a major role in
this through programming and brainwashing of the people, encouraging
them to ignore, dismiss or meekly accept great crimes, corruptions and
injustices. The press and media have become complicit in these crimes.
Most people are too frightened to speak up or protest. This is
mentioned in the points above. This along with the increasing
concentration of wealth and resources at the top of the hierarchy and
accompanying injustices, deprivation, mockery, and depravity dished out
to the bottom of the hierarchy creates conditions for nastiness,
disrespect and criminality to thrive at the bottom. Thus the very
structure and function of the social hierarchy is the greatest
generator of disorder, chaos and evil. Ironically Peterson seems to
support this social dominance hierarchy despite the massive damage it
does.
Individuals lower down the social dominance hierarchy are
easy targets for blaming and shaming by Peterson and others. They are
convenient scapegoats. And of course there are never enough resources
to re-educate, train, heal, treat, rehabilitate, house, mentor,
employ, etc. these people. There is an inability of governments,
health professionals, academics, philanthropies and foundations, banks
and businesses to engage in joined up thinking and take innovative and
creative steps to remedy these problems at a deep level. Its far easier
to blame the victim and ignore the problem. This is especially the case
in the modern world where governments have been bankrupted bailing out
corrupt banks and financial institutions and giving tax breaks to the
rich and powerful, laundering money in tax havens, giving more
over-priced government contracts to the rich, and facilitating the
misappropriation (or theft) of billions of euros and dollars in
taxpayers funds by the powerful. Governments are prepared to break the
backs of taxpayers and government itself to bail out and further enrich
the richest 2%. These massive banking debts and government debts
emerge from money created out of nothing. Money created out of nothing
is a fraud, but the banks are allowed to do this. Most of this money
created out of nothing was wasted on speculation in prices. Hundreds of
billions of euros and dollars wasted and lost on nonsense. And
countries and taxpayers bankrupted to pay for this nonsense. Nobody
seeming to realise that money created out of nothing can be cancelled,
written off, and lessons learnt. Peterson does not address these
important issues.
The Enlightenment and an Evolving Consciousness
Jordan Peterson’s use of the archetypes proposed by Jung
neglects to mention a deeper meaning to these archetypes. If one
analyses the deeper significance of these archetypes one sees a battle
between the forces of pure evil and pure goodness within the
individual, between individuals and between groups of individuals. One
also sees a seeking, a yearning for a higher power, a higher ideal, a
God through which the answers to meaning, life and existence lie, a God
who is a model of virtue in a world over-run with evil, vice, and
religious hypocrisy, a God who provides solace and comfort in a world
full of injustices and hate. The Enlightenment of the 18th century
deepened this outlook providing a greater appreciation of the value of
the individual and the value of individual rights, of freedom, of
democracy, of God given rights, of democratic and human rights, of
respect and of dignity. The Enlightenment writers believed these rights
and freedoms were God given and this created the ideal, a divinely
ordained ideal. This conflicted with traditional religious teachings
which stated that people were serfs, slaves, scum, sinful wretches, dirt
with no rights and at the mercy of monarchs, oligarchs and tyrants. The
battle between religion and the Enlightenment raged for much of the
18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Peterson finds himself supporting
religions which opposed the Enlightenment, and who denigrated,
belittled, and put down ordinary working class people or those at the
low end of the social dominance hierarchy, depriving them of basic
rights for centuries, and opposed ideals such as democracy, freedom,
and human rights for centuries and milennia Peterson needs to reflect
deeply on this.
The Enlightenment was an excellent example of an Evolving
Consciousness and an Evolving Perception of the world. It overthrew
dominance hierarchies which had existed for centuries and milennia. And
overthrew many of their value systems and their meanings. This directly
contradicts Peterson and his use of the red lobster example. This
Evolving Consciousness is something which seperates man from other
animals and other species. We do not have to be controlled by violence,
fear, prejudice and greed based programming ad brainwashing which is
millions of years old. New research in neuroscience shows that the human
brain has neuroplasticity properties and can grow new connections and
form new relationships and new paradigms, and can overcome challenges
and outmoded and outdated forms of thinking. These Enlightenment
freedoms included individual responsibilities and collective
responsibilities as being necessary for the protection of essential
rights and freedoms, which were new to the human mind and condition. A
firm linkage between rights and responsibilities was established as the
foundation of democracy and human rights. Peterson should note that some
of these responsibilities involve defending democracy against the
corrupt dominance hierarchies such as religions, corrupt politicians and
corrupt governments, corrupt police and judges, monarchists, and
tyrants of the right wing and left wing who have opposed democracy for
several centuries. These ideas of rights and accompanying
responsibilities are something which is slowly diffusing into the
collective consciousness of humanity, since the Enlightenment, despite
the best efforts of corrupt governments and religious fanatics in
western countries and developing countries to suppress it and oppose
it. This suppression and oppression is based on protecting the
interests of those at the top of the social dominance hierarchy.
All of the above factors inform the human condition at a
deep level, affecting the conscious and the unconscious, enabling it to
traverse between different levels of order and different levels of
chaos. All of this creates a constant dynamic involving
archetypes over time (decades and centuries) and a continuous friction
and conflict between order and chaos, freedom and slavery, and good and
evil and the ability, motivation and courage to confront and overcome
evil in the modern world. This represents an Evolving Consciousness.
Economics, banking, money creation,
politics, resource allocations, wealth distribution, sociology play a
major role in determining people's lives and the collective
consciousness. These are human constructs and subject to change over
time. They are not permanent, immutable, unchanging, fixed ideas and
systems, despite the best efforts of those on the right wing (and left
wing) to claim that they are. Though ignorance of these issues play a
large part in the great damage they inflict on societies and humanity.
Jordan Peterson should study the economic examples of Sweden, Norway,
Finland, Denmark, the writings of Nobel Laureates such Stiglitz, Shiller
and Krugman, Reich, Keen, Hudson, Galbraith, Piketty, Weitzman,
Montagne, and new works such as ‘New World Disorder’ by Egan which
provide practical economic and political solutions for the modern world.
