{"id":382393,"date":"2018-10-25T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jordan-peterson-and-his-enemies\/"},"modified":"2018-10-25T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:37:53","slug":"jordan-peterson-and-his-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/jordan-peterson-and-his-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Peterson and His Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jordan B. Peterson has sold over half a million volumes of\u00a012 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos<\/i><\/a>\u00a0since January, a staggering number of books. His yearlong \u201cAntidote to Chaos\u201d speaking tour is even more remarkable. In December, he will speak to an already sold out 2,000-seat Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. His tickets are fetching up to $900 each, prices comparable to Bruce Springsteen and\u00a0Hamilton<\/i>. Before that, he\u2019ll speak to audiences in Europe from Helsinki to Stockholm.<\/p>\n

A while back, I asked a former college president what she thought of Peterson. To my surprise she drew a blank. He was saying sensible things about hierarchy, gender, and coping with life\u2019s limits, I explained. He was dispensing good advice, some of it aimed directly at feckless young men.<\/p>\n

I brought up the lobsters. Lobsters have been doing status and power contests for 350 million years and are a theme in\u00a012 Rules for Life<\/i>. Their neural systems are primitive analogues of our own. Just maybe, Peterson speculates, such status and power contests apply to more advanced animal behavior, to humans, to us. \u201cThey should rename my New York neighborhood Lobster Cove,\u201d I laughed. She didn\u2019t. For academics, social class, hierarchy, and status are touchy subjects, like sex and death in earlier times. Her ideological Geiger counter had started ticking. She looked uncomfortable, and we moved on.
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Peterson\u2019s freewheeling mindset, challenging academic follies, intrigued me from the start. His Jungian perspective is deeply persuasive, linking the present to history and age-old human dilemmas. Through archetypes, Peterson charts a life that is not…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jordan B. Peterson has sold over half a million volumes of\u00a012 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos\u00a0since January, a staggering number of books. His yearlong \u201cAntidote to Chaos\u201d speaking tour is even more remarkable. In December, he will speak to an already sold out 2,000-seat Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles. His tickets are fetching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-382393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}