The means enabling the Jordan Petersons of the world to exist at all is the fact of the Left's own weakness. The Left can't take critique anymore, even though Peterson himself evidences his own brand of today's cynicism-borne-of-the-Left's-defeat. Society's discontents today all yearn for the fulfillment of the Enlightenment's promises, which was exactly the whole point and trajectory of the Left's existence in the first place. Now every time a somewhat disreputable or shady figure mentions that fact, recalls to mind some shred of that painful memory, the left recoils and yells its old slogans until it's the one left crying. Peterson clearly seems worthy of responding to only because he is touching the raw wound. And that wound is the Left's own self-imposed marginalization. We can and should do better. The world is waiting on us to do better. But until we listen, absorb, and demonstrate a praxis that overcomes the limits that such interviews as these identify, we will never be able to show just how silly the Jordan Petersons of the world really are. Until we overcome our own silliness, we will continue to be the butt of the joke, and the Trumps will continue to take power. Honestly, it would be funny if it weren't so tragic.
The means enabling the Jordan Petersons of the world to exist at all is the fact of the Left's own weakness. The Left can't take critique anymore, even though Peterson himself evidences his own brand of today's cynicism-borne-of-the-Left's-defeat. Society's discontents today all yearn for the fulfillment of the Enlightenment's promises, which was exactly the whole point and trajectory of the Left's existence in the first place. Now every time a somewhat disreputable or shady figure mentions that fact, recalls to mind some shred of that painful memory, the left recoils and yells its old slogans until it's the one left crying. Peterson clearly seems worthy of responding to only because he is touching the raw wound. And that wound is the Left's own self-imposed marginalization. We can and should do better. The world is waiting on us to do better. But until we listen, absorb, and demonstrate a praxis that overcomes the limits that such interviews as these identify, we will never be able to show just how silly the Jordan Petersons of the world really are. Until we overcome our own silliness, we will continue to be the butt of the joke, and the Trumps will continue to take power. Honestly, it would be funny if it weren't so tragic.