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A main mechanism by which he believes chaos to occur is when important beliefs are suddenly changed (e.g. during a loss of culture or religion) and then the negative human emotion to this tends to be externalized as aggression, since people "prefer war to be something external, than re-forming our challenged beliefs". Of course other things can cause chaos as well, e.g. when people cease to have incentives to cooperate. | A main mechanism by which he believes chaos to occur is when important beliefs are suddenly changed (e.g. during a loss of culture or religion) and then the negative human emotion to this tends to be externalized as aggression, since people "prefer war to be something external, than re-forming our challenged beliefs". Of course other things can cause chaos as well, e.g. when people cease to have incentives to cooperate. | ||
Jordan gained criticism from those on the left who agree with Jordan about political correctness, such as Slajov | Jordan gained criticism from those on the left who agree with Jordan about college-campus New-left types about political correctness, such as Slajov Zizek. In a debate. Zizek accused Peterson of a-historical alarmism, historical revisionism, and generating conspiracy theories about entire schools of philosophy and sociology being Marxist plots to destabilize the West. | ||
== JRE Podcast & accusations of hypocrisy == | == JRE Podcast & accusations of hypocrisy == | ||