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What specifically has lead you to believe this stuff about Dr. Peterson? I'm trying to see that side, but can't for the life of me. Perhaps it's because I've studied Psychology and understand the concepts or maybe it's due to my upbringing but whatever it is we have very different takes on just what Dr. Peterson is saying and promoting.

Dr. Peterson grew up in the middle of nowhere Alberta Canada. If he was a nihilist he never would have made it out much less to Harvard of all places.
This probably not the place or thread to go into i depth but maybe this will explain things a little before I maybe explain in more detail. I am the son of an anthropologist and psychologist who while working as a psychoanalyst by day also wrote about and studied the history of religion. So when Peterson pretends to understand the anthropological and religious basis of his own world view it is quite obvious to me that he is much more of a post modernist than he dare face up to. A big part of that is the nihilsm that informs everything he does. He admits to being terrified and keeping himself in that state in order to justify his own existentialist version of Judeo-Christianity. The problem is he does not understand the Isaiah and Jeremiah and the other prophets/archetypes that Jesus emulated. He does not understand how this has informed even the most basic and rudimentary forms of justice in the post hellenic west and neither does he have anything but a very cursory grasp of Philosophy or even the Marxism that he opposes.

The arrogance of a man who publishes his own 'Letter to the world' is a sure sign of that egocentric refusal to buck up and look in the mirror that Peterson and many Psychologists suffer from. My old man included. So when Peterson who blinds people with psuedo logic calls out SJWs as nihilsts it just reveals his own lack of any moral compass. I mean make your mind up Jordy what is it? are they moralizing or pretending that nothing matters anyway? His whole frame of reference and invented logic is very post modern. He uses his own very flimsy non-comittal version of being a Christian without actually believing in God to look down on others and proclaim them as being weak. He is committed to the idea of competition and fighting tooth and nail for your place in a capitalist neo liberal society but also granting himself the illusory cloak of Christian superiority over the godless atheists and Marxists at the same time. When Neitzsche found the men in the market place had killed God by not believing in him he recognized that there were those that still believed but that these new men would have to create their own values. Peterson is pretending that is impossible whilst not even understanding the history of the beliefs he is at once sort of, but not really subscribing to. He wants to have his cake whilst eating it. He is a postmodernist.

What Peterson really believes in is a conspiracy theory. The ideathat the academic world that gave him a job and supported him is run by some over arching leftist (Jewish) secret PC super beings. He winds people up getting them angry and turning them onto his victim religion in which they are the victims. It is a bleak dark nihilst fantasy. He is an angry fragile furious little man very much like the extreme Islamic hate preachers he mirrors in so many ways. He will use the same threat of apostasy and blasphemy, calling anyone who does not subscribe, idiots and morons, because he is so desperate to be given meaning. A meaning he thinks he gets from subscribers and likes and his followers laying themselves down in his name. He is one dangerous mutha fucker just like Tommy, not because he promotes violence against others, but because he legitamizes nurturing that bitter resentment and hate that blames the other, and grows the capacity for violence within his supporters.
We will throw his books in the fire soon we are just a little backed up right now