Stop Worshiping Jordan Peterson!

He's fighting the ideas, explaining why they are wrong, and turning people away from it.

And none of the people he's making enemies out of would agree with him anyways, because he's fighting their ideas.

You see how these two contradict each other, yes? You can change people's mind if you approach them in good faith, but your chances of successfully doing that are, shall we say, somewhat low if you open your salvo by accusing them of deliberately destroying the West. Because at that point they can laugh at you and dismiss whatever you have to say, because they know their own minds. And if they know that you're lying about their intentions, why would they listen to you about anything else you have to say?

Not to go all "This is why Trump", but... isn't Peterson doing exactly what the Right hates so much about the Left? No, you're not just misguided or wrong (and here's a reasonable explanation why), no, you're a sexist homophobic racist bigot Cultural Marxist who wants to destroy Western civilization.

Okay well I'm not ready to completely deny an intentional force here

Just as food for thought, I'd like to offer this excerpt from a book about fascist regimes - we often think that authoritarians set out to do the horrible things they end up doing, but more often than not, it's a very unconscious, unreflected process. They just take one step in front of the other where their ideology compels them to go.

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

They thought they were free by Milton Mayer

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