Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson has flooded our consciousness over the past few months. Snippets of his talks keep popping up on my social media. His book tour attracted national interest. People on the right love him, those on the left hate him. None of this is accidental. He has been carefully curating his public profile for years, posting prolifically on his Youtube channel, speaking publicly and making himself available to media outlets of all kinds. He has a devoted following and earns a decent income from Patreon via donations from viewers of his long and complex videos. His reputation is as someone who thinks deeply about the meaning of life and the significance of ancient mythology for the problem of Being. However, he has been pushed into the mainstream in the guise of a champion of the Right courtesy of his embroiling himself in a rather strange and silly war in his university over the use of pronouns. In the ...
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson