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Peterson claims that in order to prevent cultural dissolution, states need an overarching goal such as economic growth or religious/transcendental goals and a fair amount of uniformity and hierarchical organization, which he also believes to be necessary for human well-being. | Peterson claims that in order to prevent cultural dissolution, states need an overarching goal such as economic growth or religious/transcendental goals and a fair amount of uniformity and hierarchical organization, which he also believes to be necessary for human well-being. | ||
To avoid corrupt hierarchies, he claims, it is necessary to keep them fairly flat (decentralization) and use a regulated free market such that the best players prevail and inefficient/corrupt players get outcompeted/destroyed by better ones. | To avoid corrupt hierarchies, he claims, it is necessary to keep them fairly flat (decentralization) and use a regulated free market such that the best players prevail and inefficient/corrupt players get outcompeted/destroyed by better ones. | ||
He regards country borders and social norms as fundamental for a functioning state, but admits there also needs to be some adaptability and flow of information (free speech | He regards country borders and social norms as fundamental for a functioning state, but admits there also needs to be some adaptability and flow of information (free speech, ''classical liberalism'') to avoid totalitarianism and warfare. He claims it is naive to assume there is a definite set of rules for ideally structuring a state (ideology), except for leaving up the determination of the rules to a competitive process, free speech and democracy. For this reason, men need to be socialized to be competitive and dependable. He also sees cultural norms that encourage telling the truth and admitting primacy to the individual as essential for social stability and as main reason for the success of Western civilization as this enables cooperation and economic growth. For this reason, Peterson is wary of some technological advancements such as automation, fearing it could lead to diminishing value of the individual being outcompeted by machines. | ||
This concludes the secular side. Peterson also has a series of esoteric views about so called ''Jungian archetypes'' that he believes to have emerged in human folklore and religious scripture, existing across time and space and shaped by gene-meme co-evolution to capture deeper truths about human nature than the typical modern atheist would assume. Peterson sees for example the primacy of the individual in Western culture with an emphasis on honesty to have emerged in such a cultural evolutionary process. He partly uses this framework of human culture to justify the importance of traditions, concluding the [[blackpill]] that culture protects us from the unknown ways of organizing culture that could potentially throw society into chaos. | This concludes the secular side. Peterson also has a series of esoteric views about so called ''Jungian archetypes'' that he believes to have emerged in human folklore and religious scripture, existing across time and space and shaped by gene-meme co-evolution to capture deeper truths about human nature than the typical modern atheist would assume. Peterson sees for example the primacy of the individual in Western culture with an emphasis on honesty to have emerged in such a cultural evolutionary process. He partly uses this framework of human culture to justify the importance of traditions, concluding the [[blackpill]] that culture protects us from the unknown ways of organizing culture that could potentially throw society into chaos. | ||