And if what I witnessed at the Fred Kalvi Theater at the end of June is any measure, he has put it to extraordinary use.īut I don’t want to get ahead of myself. To the surprise of many, his irresistibly YouTubeable confrontations with transgender rights activists and subsequent television interviews, in which he likened identity politics to “murderous Marxist ideology,” resulted not in his relegation to obscurity, but in a brassy new international platform.
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I began to hear about Peterson during his metamorphosis from the latter to the former, when his one-man storming of the ramparts of Canadian PC culture, a cause for which he appeared fully prepared to martyr himself personally and professionally, began to make waves beyond the campus. These increasingly appear to be distinct creatures, though one clearly gave rise to the other. I fear he’s beginning to look like a character who doesn’t know what story he’s in.īefore the YouTube and podcast phenom that goes by the brand name Jordan Peterson was dubbed “the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now,” by New York Times columnist David Brooks (quoting Tyler Cowen), 1 there was Jordan Peterson, the obscure if yeasty University of Toronto professor of psychology who taught a popular class based on his then little known book Maps of Meaning. Which is why I’m so vexed about what to do with Jordan Peterson. We writers have a responsibility to get it right. But making the world right through story isn’t always fun and games. The annoying tic of that adjuster denying my insurance claim gets redeployed as the poker tell of a disgraced CEO tossing his dad’s Rolex into the pot. The useless death of my car’s transmission, say, finds fresh purpose as a plot device to keep Frank Everyman in Lonelytown long enough to fall for Miss Adventure. Like most writers, I exact my revenge upon the Pitiless Universe by pressing its most chaotic intrusions into the service of story. For the most part they are about taking responsibility, recognizing your strengths and weaknesses, aiming high, and sacrificing to meet goals. Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” tend toward metaphorical rather than literal interpretations. “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.” - Humpty Dumpty “To fail as a poet is to accept somebody else’s description of oneself.” - Richard Rorty