The ‘conversations’ that tend to happen around topics such as this are in most cases catastrophic simplifications of extremely complex phenomenon. In general, this is a disaster for our intelligence.

Jordan Peterson is an extremely well-educated and important voice in this conversation — one whose depth carries with it the capacity to clear up many delusions that ordinarily arise in contexts where the foundations and issues have become disastrously confused (and usually over-simplified)… sometimes purposefully… by those who have a specific agenda.

I do not agree with all of Mr. Peterson’s ideas or claims, but many of them are provocative, intelligent, and necessary if we are to develop the capacity to tease apart the origins and purposes involved in modern conversations surrounding race, gender, social hierarchies and political purposes. For this reason, I suggest that those interested in these matters entertain Mr. Jordan’s arguments… and carefully examine them for themselves.

A related matter involves a model called ‘the drama triangle’ where three positions — Persecutor, Rescuer and Victim ‘compete’ for the most valued role: Victim. This model implies that each position rotates roles in a process that is as socially and emotionally toxic as it is commonplace. Aspects of the present ideological situation are almost textbook examples of the Drama Triangle and the capacity for specific persons or groups to take on and transit through these roles. (see link below this post).

This does not imply that racism or sexism do not exist; rather that I think many aspects of this conversation have been misdirected by specific groups, and the complicity of postmodernism in establishing the context from which these misdirections arise and proceed to develop into full-blown disasters of misapprehension. In simpler terms: we can easily be drawn into positions that ignore the actual issues here while presenting ‘versions’ of the problem that compel us to remain confused and outraged about things that may not exist in the ways the present context demands.