{"id":30576,"date":"2018-02-06T08:42:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30576"},"modified":"2018-02-06T08:43:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T13:43:21","slug":"does-postmodernism-pit-us-against-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30576","title":{"rendered":"Does Postmodernism Pit Us Against Each Other?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Does Postmodernism Pit Us Against Each Other?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Feminist maverick Camille Paglia has called him \u201cthe most important and influential Canadian thinker since Marshall McLuhan,\u201d declaring that \u201chis bold interdisciplinary synthesis of psychology, anthropology, science, politics and comparative religion is forming the template for the genuinely humanistic university of the future.\u201d Meanwhile, conservative commentator David Brooks has echoed sentiments also shared by economist Tyler Cowen, referring to\u00a0this moment<\/a>\u00a0as Jordan Peterson\u2019s ascension to the most influential public intellectual in the West.<\/p>\n

A clinical psychologist initially trained in political science, Peterson is a professor at the University of Toronto who has risen to prominence as a firm advocate of free speech and individual responsibility. Raised as a cowboy on the Canadian plains, he toiled through various trades before entering the ivory halls of Harvard, writing\u00a0Maps of Meaning<\/a>, a complex but groundbreaking tome in the psychology of religion. His recently published, and more accessible book,\u00a012 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos<\/a>, could not come at a more perfect time for Peterson\u2019s career, and perhaps, for Western civilization.<\/p>\n

His Personal Ideology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although he\u2019s been caricatured and\u00a0mischaracterized<\/a>\u00a0as many things, Tim Lott most aptly\u00a0captures his essence.<\/a>\u00a0\u201cHe is a strange mixture of theologian, psychologist, conservative, liberal, wit and lay preacher. He\u2019s a powerful advocate of the scientific method who is not a materialist. He can go from cuddly to razor sharp in a beat. His primary concern, however, which underpins nearly everything about him, is the defense of the individual against groupthink, whether on the right or the left.\u201d In his own words, Peterson says,<\/p>\n

politically, I am a classic British liberal. Temperamentally, I am high in openness, which tilts me to the left, although also conscientious, which tilts me to the right. Philosophically, I am an individualist, not a collectivist, of the right or the left.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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