Queen Baudica, an historic Celtic and iconic figure who fiercely fought the Romans
Alexander Blum says that Jordan Peterson is a true intellectual who has had great influence on him, but he says that there are many areas where he is wrong.
Jorda Peterson bases much of his ideas on traditionalism ignoring historic figures like Joan of Arc, and countless others. So, women have not always fitted the traditional stereotype as Peterson would like to think. Modern day women can draw inspiration from Joan of Arc. (How do you fancy her working in your office?).
Peterson also bases most of his psychology on the works of Carl Jung, but Jung wrote extensively about Sophie, The Holy Spirit, the feminine side of God, also known a Sophia. Although the early Catholic (universal) Christians tried to remove as much of Sophia as they could from the Bible, there are still references to her in the Old Testament. In this way God is androgynous, says Blum. Much of this is counter to Peterson's thought who is being very selective in making his points.
Also, Peterson, and many of his followers, promote capitalism as some great ideal, and yet capitalism is the very thing that has destroyed the traditionalism which so they long for.
But Dr. Peterson has made one profound oversight. It is precisely this: capitalism and classical liberalism have destroyed myth. The technological revolution, and the transformation of communal, local bonds of people with shared values into rent-seekers, wage-searchers and otherwise atomized, separate individuals united only by the search for profit, has destroyed the original foundations of human wellbeing. Economics has completely seized and determined culture. Peterson’s notion that economic success equates to playing a good game, or otherwise participating in the good, ultimately leads to a world defined by Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Trump.
ALEXANDER BLUM - A Critique of Jordan B. Peterson
Beware of the feminine!
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“The largest contradiction in Jordan B. Peterson’s intellectual enterprise is the notion that capitalist classical liberalism is the only game we can successfully play on Earth, even as it contradicts the depths of Christian symbols.”
This explains why Peterson is popular with the “Alt-Right” crowd. The latter people justifiably disdain Antifa violence, militant feminism, LGBTQXYZ mutants, and other such perversions, but “Alt-Right” types also equate these psychoses with socialism. For “Alt-Right” people, anyone who questions the nightmare of neoliberalism is a full-blown “Communist.”
In this way, “Alt-Right” people protect the 1%, while helping to maintain the ever-widening gap between the rich and the rest. Jordan Peterson is part of this evil.
“Capitalism and classical liberalism have destroyed myth.”
Myths are never destroyed. Myths just change form. For example, ancient Romans had a myth that their enemies, the Carthaginians, sacrificed their own babies to their God by throwing them alive into bonfires. Today we have the myth that Germans gassed six million™ Jews. We have the myth that the US Civil War was about slavery, and that the monstrous Lincoln was a saint. We have the myth of “male privilege” and the “gender wage gap.” The myth that Jews are “victims” of their victims. The myth that biology is irrelevant to gender. The myth that the US government runs on loans and on tax revenue. On and on.
All cultures include myths (i.e. include lies and bullshit) that are protected by social taboos. Lies help people “make sense” of their world. Bullshit lets a tribe feel “superior” to all other tribes. Bullshit also justifies a tribe’s social structure, -- i.e. the gap between rich and poor.
I doubt that humans can create a society without myths (i.e. without bullshit) since, collectively, humans are incurable liars.
We evolved from homo-erectus to homo-bullshittius.
As I said, myths don't die. They just change form.
Truth is fleeting.
Bullshit is eternal.
“Christians were cannibals who ate flesh and and drank blood.”
It was a figurative corollary to the Israelite sacrifice that required death and shedding of blood... iow He was performing a ritual of returning to the original Cainite form of sacrifice of fruit and grain... ie no death and shedding of blood no longer required...
It was a figurative demonstration... typical of discipling ie active learning that He used with them...
You ignored the first words of the sentence.
"THE ROMANS SAID that Christians were cannibals who ate flesh and and drank blood."
It's called vilifying one's competitors.
I don’t believe the Romans would have said that...
I read it in the Gnostic Gospals by Elaine Pagels.
Fake news....
“Transubstantiation (Latin: transsubstantiatio; Greek: μετουσίωσις metousiosis) is, according to the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, the change of substance or essence by which the bread and wine offered in the sacrifice of the sacrament of the Eucharist during the Mass, become, in reality, the body and blood of Jesus Christ.”
NO... ABILITY.... TO.... ABSTRACT ...FIGURATIVE....ACTIVITY.... LEADS ... TO... REIFICATION.... COGNITIVE...DEFICIENCY...
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