263) Day 31 -- Reason #31 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism:  Manufacturing Consent, Part 3 -- We are in the fight for our lives.

263) Day 31 -- Reason #31 to revolt against Predatory Capitalism: Manufacturing Consent, Part 3 -- We are in the fight for our lives.

Progressive ideals, of socialism and community, feminism and human rights, gender and cultural diversity, have become, like communism in the 1950s and “radical Islam” of the 2000s’ War on Terror, key targets for attack by the Powerful, in order to quell dissent and control the population.

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114) Dealing with the Devil:  Adventures in parenting, Part 2 - Asmodeus and Siskenet

114) Dealing with the Devil:  Adventures in parenting, Part 2 - Asmodeus and Siskenet

Siskenet crossed his arms.  “Fine.  You want me to trust you?  Let’s start with you showing me what you really look like.  Nothing to hide, right?”

“No tea then?”  The man sighed.  “Very well.  But there is nothing to show you, Siskenet.  I have no true form.”

“But…how….  What do you mean?  That doesn’t even make sense.” Siskenet set it firmly in his mind, he wasn’t going to be persuaded by whatever this Demon said.  It was a Demon! They were in the Hells.  He must not forget that, no matter how slick this creature’s whole schtick was.

“I’m an abstraction.  A coalescence of patterns that very commonly replicate in consciousness, throughout the self-aware, sentient creatures of the worlds.”  The man smiled, spreading his hands and shrugging.  “It’s kind of hard to explain.”

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88) Jordan Peterson:  Part 7 - Psychology at the Ending of the World; Subsection 2 - The Doctrine of Original Awesomeness

88) Jordan Peterson: Part 7 - Psychology at the Ending of the World; Subsection 2 - The Doctrine of Original Awesomeness

Learning to be a responsible, productive, healthy, moral and reasonably successful human being does NOT come from rules.  It comes from having one’s inner goodness nurtured, embraced, accepted and loved PLUS having one’s inner shittiness also embraced, accepted and loved, so that the power of being loved and accepted in our totality teaches us that we ARE “good”!  We ARE worthwhile, beautiful, wonderful little beings.  Maybe we don’t exactly behave that way all the time, but intrinsically, we are creatures of love, far more than we are creatures of selfishness.

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87) Jordan Peterson:  Part 7 - Psychology at the Ending of the World; Subsection 1:  Where Jordan is Wrong AF

87) Jordan Peterson: Part 7 - Psychology at the Ending of the World; Subsection 1: Where Jordan is Wrong AF

So along comes Jordan Peterson, with his “12 Rules for Life”, promising us the “antidote to chaos.”  Like every snake-oil salesman of the past, his advice may very likely be ineffective, OR, ends up causing exactly the problem he is promising to cure.  Based on the Judaeo-Christian framework which Jordan argues is the foundation of Western morality and ethics, this would be considered, well, downright evil.

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85) Jordan Peterson, Part 6:  The myth of "the myth of white/male privilege" - Subsection 2:  Flat-Earthers, Climate change deniers, and Jordan Peterson on the Patriarchy

85) Jordan Peterson, Part 6: The myth of "the myth of white/male privilege" - Subsection 2: Flat-Earthers, Climate change deniers, and Jordan Peterson on the Patriarchy

So Jordan, go tell the old Grannies of the world that they grew up just as empowered as their brothers, and emerged into womanhood with just as much power as men.  That they had just as much say over their lives as their husbands.  That they weren’t shamed for their sexuality (relative to males), impeded from entering business and professional workspaces (relative to males), had the same types of economic opportunities (relative to males), suffered the same amounts of criticism and humiliation and violence in their homes (relative to males), etc.  

And when you convince the world’s grannies and aunties that there is no Patriarchy, then ok, you win.

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84) Jordan Peterson, Part 6:  The Myth of "the Myth of White/Male Privilege" -- Subsection 1:  Nobody should care about this essay

84) Jordan Peterson, Part 6: The Myth of "the Myth of White/Male Privilege" -- Subsection 1: Nobody should care about this essay

The issue, for me, is that Jordan’s claim that male privilege is a myth is so thoroughly absurd that it’s actually difficult to address.  Practically all of history, all of life experience growing up in this culture, and countless personal stories, indicate that Jordan is virtually delusional on this topic.

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64) Jordan Peterson, Part 5:  The Perfect House Problem; Subsection 7 -- The Rebel Alliance

64) Jordan Peterson, Part 5: The Perfect House Problem; Subsection 7 -- The Rebel Alliance

The Rebel Alliance depended on a dead dude, a quixotic Elf who talked like Grover, a wannabe hero with an inferiority complex, an arrogant smuggler, an incomprehensible BigFoot, an annoying and basically useless robot, a super-cool robot who looked like a futuristic garbage can, and a bitchy, bad-ass princess.

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63) Jordan Peterson, Part 5:  The Perfect House Problem; Subsection 6 -- Lived Experience

63) Jordan Peterson, Part 5: The Perfect House Problem; Subsection 6 -- Lived Experience

Perhaps then, you will start to understand ‘that look’ — that gleam that is so unsettling to the intellectual skeptic or theorist, that unwavering solidity that you see in eyes that are past fear, eyes that have seen so much pain they won’t close to ugliness ever again.  When you see the stability in people’s eyes who have witnessed sufficient suffering, you have met a person who can drink in the entire ocean, who can absorb an entire sun, because their hearts are broken into so many pieces they have atomized and become the Universe.

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62) Jordan Peterson, Part 5:  The Perfect House Problem; Subsection 5 - Love vs. Fear on the Protest Lines

62) Jordan Peterson, Part 5: The Perfect House Problem; Subsection 5 - Love vs. Fear on the Protest Lines

Judging protest as useless and protesters as idiots because someone threw some rocks at windows is kinda like an alien, zooming over the earth, sampling only the murderers and rapists and serial killers, watching a war or two, and then leaving.  Conclusion:  Humanity is terrible.  Planet should be obliterated for the hyperspace super-highway we planned to put through this area of space.  No great loss.

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61) Jordan Peterson, Part 5: The Perfect House Problem; Subsection 4 - Atheist Indigenous Immigrant Women Should Rule the World

61) Jordan Peterson, Part 5: The Perfect House Problem; Subsection 4 - Atheist Indigenous Immigrant Women Should Rule the World

Let’s let the peace-lovers and wisdom-seekers, the poor and disenfranchised, ‘rule the world’ for, say, one generation of humanity, and see if we’re better off, or worse.  I have every bit of faith that they’ll do no worse, at worst, than the men, most of whom are very wealthy men to boot, who’ve had the reins for MOST of the past….uh….forever?

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58) Jordan Peterson, Part 5:  The Perfect House Problem; Subsection 1 - He Who Is Without Sin

58) Jordan Peterson, Part 5: The Perfect House Problem; Subsection 1 - He Who Is Without Sin

Jordan Peterson wants to save the world from the horrors of the Gulag, from the 100 million corpses he talks about.  But right here, in Rule #6 of “12 Rules for Life,” he gives us close to the WORST POSSIBLE advice for preventing more chaos, more hundreds of millions of corpses.

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49) Jordan Peterson:  Part 4:  The problem of Collective Assholeification

49) Jordan Peterson: Part 4: The problem of Collective Assholeification

Assholes tend to think simplistically.  Not about all things, of course; when it comes to something they like or know a lot about, they will be happy to argue the nth nuance of the nth detail until the cows come home.  But about anything else, nope, it’s black and white, right and wrong, and they’re right and you’re wrong, so shut up.  They have a tendency to steer conversations into their fav-talking-points so they can amaze and astound people with their superior knowledge, but they also have a tendency to impose their opinions even into conversations where they really don’t know much about the topic at all, or perhaps they have a smidgeon or two of knowledge and so, they’re “experts”.  My mom always said that you have two ears and one mouth for a reason — assholes seem to have forgotten, or rejected, that bit of wisdom.

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