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TRAVIS PITTMAN from page 19
it was a bad document but what utility it had,
Justin, who is now Prime Minister, has
destroyed entirely.”
Interviewer then asked: “So this is an attack
on western civilization, biology, gender, and the
scientific method. Why would the left pursue
an attack on western civilization when it has
produced such amazing results over the past
few centuries?”
Peterson: “People have been motivated by
spite and resentment forever. The story is as old
as Cain and Abel, to tear down what is success
ful and useful in spite because of your own sac
rifices that have gone unrewarded. Same old
endless archetypical story played out in politi
cal guise, and there is no shortage of people as
well, especially more on the psychotic side of
the continuum, who will adopt the camouflage
of compassion. We see that expressed in the
relationship to due care for group rights and the
tear down of everything in tradition and dance
around in the mins. There is now a lot of psy
chological literature detailing the relationship
between narcissism, psychopathy, manipula
tiveness and left-wing political viewpoints.
Everybody has instances to feel alienated
from existence itself from time to time. Tife is
difficult and does not aways turn out the way
we want it to. We can all doubt the meaning of
our own lives or its purpose. We are all subject
to a certain amount of torture and one of the
temptations is to get bitter and resentful, to lash
out, to look for enemies and to tear down. To
tear down tradition to merely shake your fist at
destiny itself and express your dismay. It is a
constant temptation to be enticed down that
pathway but is a dreadful mistake. The free
doms we have put in place in the West is predi
cated on the viewpoint that human existence is
worthwhile and we should orient ourselves
properly upward.”
Even though this interview shows some
right-leaning ideas, he has repeatedly stated his
opposition to identity politics, “saying that it is
practiced on both sides of the political divide:
the left plays them on the behalf of the
oppressed, and the right tends to play them on
behalf of nationalism
and ethnic pride. Both
are equally dangerous
and individual personal
responsibility should be
emphasized”.
His views differenti
ate between order and
chaos, taking the side
that works in the mod
ern world. The Wall
Street Journal argued
that his success with ele
vated arguments for the importance of order
have made him the most significant conserva
tive thinker to appear in the English-speaking
world in a generation.
Arguably that is the position that the left
would want to put him, since his statement in
2017 that God is the “ultimate fictional charac
ter” even though he considered himself a prag
matic Christian. He states that Jesus (a perfect
man) and God were
both archetypes, or sym
bols that represent to the
mind some universal
pattern or form.
Using psychology,
while sometimes inter
esting, to explain human
nature is usually a
stretch for me. Self
understanding is the
goal of psychology;
conversely in Christian
faith, self-understanding is the by-product of
discovering the tmth about God. At least in his
stimulating conversation, he gives us convinc
ing logic when he equates order with
Christianity and conservatism.
Self-understanding is the goal of
psychology; conversely in
Christian faith, self-understanding
is the by-product of discovering
the truth about God. At least in his
stimulating conversation, he
gives us convincing logic when
he equates order with
Christianity and conservatism.
LEE HAMILTON from page 19
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