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== Beliefs and philosophy == | == Beliefs and philosophy == | ||
Peterson claims that in order to prevent cultural dissolution, states need an overarching goal such as economic growth, religious/transcendental goals or restoration/achievement/maintenance of national pride, and also a fair amount of uniformity and hierarchical organization. | Peterson claims that in order to prevent cultural dissolution, states need an overarching goal such as economic growth, religious/transcendental goals or restoration/achievement/maintenance of national pride, and also a fair amount of uniformity/predictability and hierarchical organization. | ||
He says "the group must unite, but under the banner of the individual."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEFt20qe0o</ref> | He says "the group must unite, but under the banner of the individual."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnEFt20qe0o</ref> | ||
He sees hierarchies to be inevitable because people differ in their ability. He regards them to enable cooperation, and as necessary for human well-being. When uncorrupted by ideology, he expects rules for fair play to naturally emerge from them. | He sees hierarchies to be inevitable because people differ in their ability. He regards them to enable cooperation, and as necessary for human well-being. When uncorrupted by ideology, he expects rules for fair play to naturally emerge from them. | ||
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 and misaligned players get outcompeted and destroyed by better ones ([[Neoliberalism|individualism]]). He sees no alternative to | 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 and misaligned players get outcompeted and destroyed by better ones. | ||
This requires individuals (especially men) to be socialized to be competitive and to take on responsibility and be accountable, but also admitted opportunities to take on real responsibility ([[Neoliberalism|individualism]]). | |||
He says people have innate tendencies that make them suitable for different positions in the hierarchy, e.g. progressives as pioneers and conservatives as people who keeping things running. | |||
He sees no alternative to decentralized competition because the top of the hierarchy naturally tends to corrupt as it lacks corrective signals from above. | |||
He regards democracy (free market of ideas) and capitalism (free market of goods) as institutions that determine value, distribution of goods and policy in a decentralized and hence less corruptible manner than all alternatives. | |||
A religious/transcendental goal/norm can even give the top some guidance and make it less corruptible. | |||
Peterson warns that major attempts to enforce equality in opposition to the competitive process of the free market enforced by shaming culture (collectivism) is highly prone to corruption because it admits too much power to centralized institutions enforcing these rules, and creates adverse incentives that greedy people are inevitably going to exploit, unhindered due to the lack of free market competitiveness. | Peterson warns that major attempts to enforce equality in opposition to the competitive process of the free market enforced by shaming culture (collectivism) is highly prone to corruption because it admits too much power to centralized institutions enforcing these rules, and creates adverse incentives that greedy people are inevitably going to exploit, unhindered due to the lack of free market competitiveness. | ||