Jordan Peterson, Hierarchies, and Contradiction

Yesterday, the YouTube channel Some More News put out a three hour video on the topic of Jordan Peterson. Truth be told, despite his reputation as a best selling author and political celebrity, I have personally never payed much attention to Peterson despite being somebody who commits on both the news and right-wing figure heads for a living. This is not to say I haven’t seen responses to him before, I watched Mister Metokur talk about his fanbase after he criticized Peterson during a livestream, I saw The Amazing Atheist make an audiobook defending nihilism in order to explain his hatred of Peterson, and I enjoyed Contrapoint’s video where she goes through Peterson’s philosophy and explains why he’s become so popular. However, when it comes to my writings, I’ve mostly decided to ignore him — primarily because I find people like Ben Shapiro and Dennis Prager who pretend to use facts to be more interesting to talk about than somebody who talks about architypes and the mystical.

However, I feel like this ignoring has led me to miss out on a goldmine of commentary. So, over the next couple of articles, I’m going to talk about Peterson and why I find his ideology to be utterly nonsensical once broken down even slightly.

The first thing I wish to note is actually a very common contradiction among pseudo-populist conservatives. You see…