![]() And then we have what we’ll call the alt-right group in which we usually find the likes of Peterson Trump and the incels all lumped together. There’s the so-called Woke in-group which is the mainstream progressive movements advocating for the rights of minorities and marginal groups. Now the article is pretty typical of any culture wars-related content. And then there’s The Cut article which has the beautiful clickbait title “ Did Olivia Wilde Just Make Jordan Peterson Cry?” and is more or less a blow-by-blow of who said what. Peterson in turn reacts to this in an interview with Piers Morgan which is the clip that first grabbed my attention on YouTube. Now for those of you who don’t know the story basically Olivia Wilde - who to be honest I only remember from The OC - made a movie where the bad guy was based on Jordan Peterson. And more than that: it’s a co-dependant psychological mirror. And so curious about this as I was, I took a little time to sit down and explore it and basically what I came up with was the striking realisation (though it seems really obvious now) that this whole culture wars bonanza is a psychological mirror. I’ve consumed a lot of culture wars content over the last five or six years (as we all have I’m sure) but it’s been a while and I don’t know whether it’s a certain level of distance I have from this sort of content, or whether some of the things we’ve been researching on the blog these past few months have had an effect on me but there was a different awareness bubbling beneath the surface. ![]() I quickly devoured what turned out to be a short little article but something about it really struck me and I couldn’t immediately figure out why. But alas escape from the algorithms was not so final as a couple of days ago I came across an article on the New York Magazine’s online wing The Cut and they managed to ensnare me. It was really enticing but I managed to avoid algorithmic hijacking on the way to whatever it is I’d actually come to watch. I was on my phone at some point last week and I came across this video of Jordan Peterson on Piers Morgan. ![]() In the meantime I thought we’d do something a little bit different this week. That and I want to write a few articles on some developmental models so Maslow and Spiral Dynamics could be on the horizon in the next few months as well with all going according to plan. I really enjoyed making the profile on Heidegger and I thought it would be interesting to put together a series on Existentialist philosophers so we’re going to look at Kierkegaard in the next instalment and then maybe Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus and Jaspers and I guess Nietzsche would even fit this category so maybe even a broad overview of Nietzsche which would be fun. But we have some exciting stuff planned for the next few months. I was away visiting family last week on the other side of the Atlantic so I’m still settling back in and trying to get my sleep cycle fixed up (it’s appallingly disorganised still). Hello and welcome to another instalment of The Living Philosophy.
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