Peterson says, looking ashen and stricken. He wants to feel their imprisonment, though he lives here on a quiet residential street in Toronto and is quite free. Most of it is communist propaganda from the Soviet Union (execution scenes, soldiers looking noble) - a constant reminder, he says, of atrocities and oppression. He has filled it with a sprawl of art that covers the walls from floor to ceiling. Peterson’s home is a carefully curated house of horror.
We wouldn’t be able to talk to these new creatures.” Why Men Murder If you change those basic categories, people wouldn’t be human anymore. “You know you can say, ‘Well isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine’ - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter because that is how it’s represented. Wherever he goes, he speaks in sermons about the inevitability of who we must be. “I am a very serious person,” he often says. He has written about dogs being closest in behavior to humans, but there is something extremely feline about him. He has a weathered, gaunt face and big furrowed eyebrows. He shows me his home, lets me listen in on business calls and a Skype session with a fan, and follow him backstage during a speaking engagement at the Queen Elizabeth Theater. He is the stately looking, pedigreed voice for a group of culture warriors who are working diligently to undermine mainstream and liberal efforts to promote equality.įor two days in May, Mr. The messages he delivers range from hoary self-help empowerment talk (clean your room, stand up straight) to the more retrograde and political (a society run as a patriarchy makes sense and stems mostly from men’s competence the notion of white privilege is a farce). Peterson, 55, a University of Toronto psychology professor turned YouTube philosopher turned mystical father figure, has emerged as an influential thought leader. “We have to rediscover the eternal values and then live them out,” he says. Hence his new book’s subtitle: “An Antidote to Chaos.” And if an overdose of femininity is our new poison, Mr. “The masculine spirit is under assault,” he told me. Most of his ideas stem from a gnawing anxiety around gender. He casts this as ancient wisdom, delivered through religious allegories and fairy tales which contain truth, he says, that modern society has forgotten. He is bringing them knowledge, yes, but it is knowledge that they already know and feel in their bones. He tells his audiences that they are smart.
Look back to the 1950s, he says - and back even further. TORONTO - Jordan Peterson fills huge lecture halls and tells his audiences there’s no shame in looking backward to a model of how the world should be arranged.
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