Recently, a young man named Alek Minassian drove through Toronto trying to kill people with his van. You can’t help but fall into these categories.
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You say, ‘Well, there’s no such thing as witches.’ Yeah, I know what you mean, but that isn’t what you think when you go see a movie about them. It exists absolutely more than anything else. It’s, like, yes they do - the category predator and the category dragon are the same category. They just don’t exist the way you think they exist. And it makes sense that an old king lives in a desiccated tower.”īut witches don’t exist, and they don’t live in swamps, I say. It’s because those things hang together at a very deep level. “It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp. I ask why these old stories should guide us today. Peterson illustrates his arguments with copious references to ancient myths - bringing up stories of witches, biblical allegories and ancient traditions.
“The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence,” he said. The left, he believes, refuses to admit that men might be in charge because they are better at it. We wouldn’t be able to talk to these new creatures.” 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.
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