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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 college-campus New-left types | Jordan gained criticism from those on the left who agree with Jordan about college-campus New-left types and political correctness, such as Slajov Zizek. In a debate. Zizek accused Peterson of a-historical alarmism, injecting motives and beliefs into philosophies where there are none, and generating false conspiracy theories about broad schools of philosophy and sociology being Marxist plots to destabilize the West. | ||
== JRE Podcast & accusations of hypocrisy == | == JRE Podcast & accusations of hypocrisy == | ||