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Peterson 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, democratic process, a free market of ideas. For this reason, men need to be socialized to be competitive and dependable, in addition to be able to satisfy women's hypergamous preferences and to be immune against the natural occurrence of [[asshole|psychopaths]] who would otherwise claim power. 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 since this enables cooperation and economic growth. For this reason, Peterson is wary of automation, fearing it could diminish the value of the individual being outcompeted by machines. | Peterson 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, democratic process, a free market of ideas. For this reason, men need to be socialized to be competitive and dependable, in addition to be able to satisfy women's hypergamous preferences and to be immune against the natural occurrence of [[asshole|psychopaths]] who would otherwise claim power. 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 since this enables cooperation and economic growth. For this reason, Peterson is wary of automation, fearing it could diminish the 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. He believes these archetypes to exist across time and space, and to have been shaped by gene-meme co-evolution to capture deeper truths about human nature than a typical atheist would assume. | 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. He believes these archetypes to exist across time and space, and to have been shaped by gene-meme co-evolution (drawing on Jung's concept of the collective unconscious) to capture deeper truths about human nature than a typical atheist would assume. | ||
Peterson sees for example the primacy of the individual in Western culture and the emphasis on honesty to have emerged in such a cultural evolutionary process. He sees this framework of human culture as fundamental for the construction of ''any'' meaning, and uses it to justify the importance of traditions, concluding the [[blackpill]] that culture protects us from the unknown ways of organizing society that could potentially throw us into chaos by mechanisms that are too complex for us to figure out by other means but cultural evolution: | Peterson sees for example the primacy of the individual in Western culture and the emphasis on honesty to have emerged in such a cultural evolutionary process. He sees this framework of human culture as fundamental for the construction of ''any'' meaning, and uses it to justify the importance of traditions, concluding the [[blackpill]] that culture protects us from the unknown ways of organizing society that could potentially throw us into chaos by mechanisms that are too complex for us to figure out by other means but cultural evolution: | ||