Jordan Peterson’s Hypocrite Atheist Cultists

The overall impression most people who aren’t desperate to agree with Jordan Peterson find the man to be largely incoherent and obsessed with making baseless assertions in defense of his own values. For a sub-group of atheists, he’s the source of their greatest hypocrisy.

Pictured: a figure from “Maps of Meaning.” I have heard from Zen teachers that if we meet the Buddha on the road, we must kill him. If Peterson means, as is likely from the context, that this is the knowledge that the historical Buddha teaches us from his first enlightenment, then such must be the answer of the Buddhist to this.

When I first heard of Peterson, it was clear that he was a bog-standard fear-mongering anti-trans bigot. That might…