{"id":5977,"date":"2016-12-05T10:38:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T10:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/an-interview-with-dr-jordan-peterson\/"},"modified":"2016-12-05T10:38:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T10:38:32","slug":"an-interview-with-dr-jordan-peterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/05\/an-interview-with-dr-jordan-peterson\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"

A must read<\/a>.  Some quotes<\/span> quotations:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Part of the reason I got embroiled in this [gender identity] controversy was because of what I know about how things went wrong in the Soviet Union. Many of the doctrines that underlie the legislation that I\u2019ve been objecting to share structural similarities with the Marxist ideas that drove Soviet Communism. The thing I object to the most was the insistence that people use these made up words like \u2018xe\u2019 and \u2018xer\u2019 that are the construction of authoritarians. There isn\u2019t a hope in hell that I\u2019m going to use their language, because I know where that leads.<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

I was also quite profoundly influenced by [Alexsandr] Solzhenitsyn\u2019s book The Gulag Archipelago<\/em>. People say that real Marxism has never been tried \u2013 not in the Soviet Union, in China, in Cambodia, in Korea, that wasn\u2019t real Marxism. I find that argument specious, appalling, ignorant, and maybe also malevolent all at the same time. Specious because Solzhenitsyn demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that the horrors [of the Soviet system] were a logical consequence of the doctrines embedded within Marxist thinking. I think Dostoyevsky saw what was coming and Nietzsche wrote about it extensively in the 1880s, laying out the propositions that are encapsulated in Marxist doctrine, and warning that millions of people would die in the 20th century because of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve painted a pretty bleak picture for the future.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There are bleak things going on. To start with, Bill C-16 writes social constructionism into the fabric of the law. Social constructionism is the doctrine that all human roles are socially constructed. They\u2019re detached from the underlying biology and from the underlying objective world. So Bill C-16 contains an assault on biology and an implicit assault on the idea of objective reality. It\u2019s also blatant in the Ontario Human Rights Commission policies and the Ontario Human Rights Act<\/em>. It says identity is nothing but subjective. So a person can be male one day and female the next, or male one hour and female the next.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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A must read.  Some quotes quotations: Part of the reason I got embroiled in this [gender identity] controversy was because of what I know about how things went wrong in the Soviet Union. Many of the doctrines that underlie the legislation that I\u2019ve been objecting to share structural similarities with the Marxist ideas that drove … Continue reading “An Interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leftism-and-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}