- Jordan Peterson gets vaxxed -
Reading the Sott article, that he got covid-jabbed, my hunch was he got it because of his public career. He would have gone down the toilet. He needs the jab to remain a celebrity, which nets him his income. If he is able to remain in the spotlight that means, he remains in the public consciousness and people will buy his books, another income source. He may have calculated, that more than half of the population will probably get vaxxed and those unfortunates will feel Jordan is in their Club and buy his books.
So I think, he decided to get vaxxed for financial survival.
It's interesting though how one's own mind can deceive you.
Freud (according to Jeffrey Masson in his book
The Assault on Truth) had to abandon his initial findings linking hysterical symptoms to real trauma in the form of sexual abuse (usually at the hands of a male figure in the family, or a family friend, etc.) because to keep on that course would have alienated the same Jewish intellectual/professional community he needed to support him and his work. But given it was within that community that this sexual abuse was taking place, he was up against a serious conflict of interest.
However, Freud's abandoning his initial findings (which was tantamount to abandoning his patients) was only possible by some deft maneuvering of his own psyche. In other words, he "discovered" the role of infantile fantasy, which largely took the "blame" off of outside trauma/perpetrators given now the root cause of the trouble dated back to infancy, etc., according to his new theory. In other words, Freud didn't have to consciously face the fact that he was shifting gears in order to secure his fame and fortune. Instead, he
believed in this new direction his mind was taking him in, even though, as Masson shows in his book, maintaining such glaring blind spots in his thinking and theorizing became increasingly difficult and complicated -- and it was doing a great deal of harm to others, even to the field of psychoanalysis itself.
Similarly, Peterson may have convinced himself that the vaccines are "good." By maintaining his allegiance to Scientific Officialdom -- no matter what rational-minded obstacles are standing in the way of that -- he is able to hold his ground without believing himself to be a sell out. "Rational" is a key concept here. Freud lost sight of true rationality just as Peterson is doing. False allegiances will do that regardless of one's level of intelligence. I believe Freud died believing that human biology was itself something of a dead end. It's that some part of himself decided he'd rather be depressed by such a bleak outlook on humanity than to see the true (and ubiquitous) nature of sexual abuse, which, if I'm recalling correctly, extended to his own experience in this own family.
Peterson also chooses to go down with the ship as opposed to setting out on a new one. Listen to how he talks, how he's sacrificing his own body, even owning that he might not be right:
"Although I would encourage people to--get the damn vaccine, let's get the hell over this. That's--
but I did that, I put my body on the line to do it. That's my decision. I'm not saying it's right. It's what I decided to do.
"
(What a guy!)
As I've been suggesting, I don't think the financial/careerist aspect on its own is enough to explain Peterson's line of thinking, even though it is obviously central to the worldly success he wants to maintain. In other words, it's folded in there, but he would not, in my opinion, be able to live with himself if he truly thought he was a sell out.
Enter the unconscious aspect of the psyche to save us from seeing too clearly our own (seemingly irreversible, at times) failings. And, I mean, Peterson would need to disassemble a lot within himself in order to change course, and he just can't bring himself to do that -- or at least not at this time.
You know those terrible moments when you look back over your life and you see how much of it was predicated on your own unwitting belief in lies, particularly those lies that you've told yourself
about yourself? Those are sobering, sometimes excruciating moments. And, ironically, if one isn't too invested in one's worldly successes, or if success has eluded you for one reason or another, you actually have more operating room with which to re-evaluate and change course. On the other hand, worldly success usually comes at a very steep price. And, again, one's own mind finds ways of leading one astray; it can convince us we are making rational decisions, when the reality is (painfully) different than that.
Add to all this the possibility of mind control. If the structural armature of the programming is starting to fall apart, how frightening and disorienting a thing to try to come to terms with -- and in the public eye no less? Mightn't it be easier to just have a total breakdown instead? Where was
what should have been a self protective doubt about addressing his anxiety and depression with a drug he apparently had no experience with? Of course, if handlers and/or programmers
were involved in all this, they certainly did him no favors in terms of the drug they chose. Would that have been by design, or miscalculation? If by design, was the hell that ensued some sort of warning not to change course? -- a "see what happens when you threaten to quit?" sort of thing? And while mind control in and of itself always tends to sound wildly unlikely given most of us have never experienced anything nearly as outlandish and invasive, again, given Peterson's time at McGill, it still seems like something to consider. (Thus far I've refrained from attempting any research into this where Peterson is concerned, but perhaps I should give it a go, see what comes up.)
But, whether mind control is involved or not, the unconscious does collude with circumstance. In this case, Peterson's unconscious mind found a way to solve his increasing anxiety and depression -- a depression that was no doubt tied to his inability to deal with a whole array of problems his life was presenting him with, including the seminal role his now seriously ill wife had in his increasingly public life as a "success." Interesting then that Peterson was eventually placed in a coma where all such pressures and responsibilities were temporarily put on hold. And recovery itself made its own demands on him, apart from all the other problems he had initially been plagued with. In other words, far more life threatening concerns supplanted what had felt to be an untenable situation beforehand, which had been largely triggered by his wife's cancer. Or so the story goes.
I'm reminded of what some astrologists term the "Saturnian" principle. When Saturn enters a person's astrological chart (and you could well be aware of this happening by the gloominess you suddenly feel), but when that happens it's up to that person to find some time alone to deal with either a bout of depression, or sadness, or melancholy, etc. -- even going to a cemetery is something that's been prescribed -- because if you don't take that time out, that time to be alone either to grieve, or to just sit with oneself, Saturn will have its way with you and force on you a circumstance far worse; a circumstance in which you find yourself wholly alone, and out of the normal stream of events in your life. In other words, the Saturnian principle, left unaddressed, could very well land you in a hospital. And, as we have seen, Peterson was certainly granted such an unanticipated respite.
Did Peterson emerge from all that a changed man?
As we've been assessing, he doesn't quite seem like his old self. And yet, even given this opportunity (as a "changed" man, I mean) to come clean as to his previous blind spots and misplaced allegiances, he STILL chooses the same course -- even if he's wrong, he tells us.
It's humbling how powerful the unconscious is. If Peterson were to finally "let go" of it all, if he could just let himself admit to himself that a substantial part of what he's been engaged in is founded on quicksand -- wouldn't he be forgiven, if not by the powerful who have given him this seat at the table, but by those who truly believe in his goodness?
What does this mirage of worldly success hold for him that could in any way supersede that? Is it that he doesn't truly feel himself to be "worthy?" Instead he'll go down with that same ship he boarded a long time ago... since not even his near drowning experience (metaphorically speaking) seems to have elicited from him what might well have been a profound change of course. No, instead he sides with the authorities that are vested in him, even if he has to sacrifice his own body to do so.