Jordan Peterson, Savior of the West?
How Canada’s Martin Luther Is Preparing Christians for the Battle Between Good and Evil
PREAMBLE: I, too, originally fell for the Peterson Deception. Recent insights into Peterson’s character have, however, exposed him to be a crypto-Marxist who is (still) working for the United Nations. Their purpose is to prevent white male backlash over their disownment & their minority status in their own nations. I.e., Peterson is a wolf in sheep’s clothes (or perhaps a sheep in wolf’s clothes, a traitor in any case). He’s not going to “save the West”. He’s helping destroy the West by detracting from the causes of its destruction, by preoccupying white men with room cleaning while their women are being sold into slavery.
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Exactly 500 years after the Great Schism of 1517 that split Western European Christianity into a southern Catholicism and a northern Protestantism, Jordan Peterson published a series of lectures on Christianity on his YouTube channel. The timing is no coincidence. In his lectures, Peterson presents an ‘alt-right’ revaluation of Biblical scripture, justifying society’s need for God, hierarchy, and inequality. Intermittently, he teaches confused post-modern men how to become real men again.
Peterson, a Canadian clinical psychologist in his mid-fifties, believes “we’re at the end of post-modern despair”, and that it is time for a “discussion of first principles”. He preaches to his online followers they must “transcend the catastrophe of being, and prevail”. Peterson is literally telling Western men — meaning white men — to transcend the catastrophe of the 20th century and its world wars and prevail in the 21st.
No, Peterson is certainly no supremacist. But his energetic insights, heavily drawing on the philosophies of Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger, have an unmistakably Germanic signature. If beliefs evolved to serve their peoples, Peterson’s insights may effectively reinvigorate Christianity with pre-Christian values, perhaps even completing the Reformation that Martin Luther (not King) had once begun five centuries ago.
Indeed, we’ve grown so accustomed to 24/7 news cycles that we’ve imprisoned our minds in the Now. We’ve forgotten how grander social movements play out over centuries rather than in Tweets. If Martin Luther once helped Germans break away from Catholicism (literally meaning: universalism), Peterson has laid the foundation for the West’s spiritual revival.
In order to fight globalism, cultural relativism and Soros-funded mass migration meant to eradicate European civilization altogether, we were going to need a manlier Christianity. Whether he meant to do so or not, Jordan Peterson has given us precisely that.
“Nietzsche predicted that in the 20th century hundreds of millions of people would die because of the replacement of these underlying dreamlike structures with this rational, but deeply incorrect representation of the world.”— Jordan B. Peterson
Different Climates, Different Peoples
Before Christianity, the peoples of Northern Europe who would later colonize North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand had never had their own religion, aside from a loose collection of stories and superstitions involving Thor, Freya, Odin and other deities, especially female ones. But before the Germanic Northerners had a chance to organize themselves, Catholic missionaries got to them first. From the 7th to the 13th century, they converted — and submitted — the North to Roman Catholic rule.
It didn’t last very long. Barely two centuries after their conversion to Catholicism, German thinker Martin Luther set off the Protestant Reformation. Catholicism and its more collectivist worldview simply never sat well with people of Northern European descent.
Historical events leave their marks. Ancestors of Southern Europeans were once subjects of the Roman Empire, whereas Northerners resisted their subjugation, halting further Roman expansion northward, first under Arminius of the Cheruscii in 9 AD, and later in 69–70 AD under the joint command of Batavii leader Julius Civilis and the Frisian chieftain Bruno. For nearly 2,000 years, Northern Europeans would continue to fight Roman conceptions of one-worldism.
Perhaps ecology provides a better explanation for Northern stubbornness than a room full of sociologists could. Studying the bottlenecks for human life in ancient Europe, access to potable water was what restricted life in the warmer, drier South. The Romans solved their water problems with grand works of aquatic architecture. But aqueducts also diverted already sparse water away from the dry countryside, forcing people to huddle together in cramped urban areas from where water was distributed.
The Roman Empire relied on controlling the life-giving water resource in order to control the population. It went along well with totalitarian conceptions of “One State, One Church, One People”. But in the North, the conditions for life were very different. Indeed, the Germanic barbarians couldn’t build waterways, but they didn’t need to either. Rainy summers and snowy winters provided the Northerners with an abundance of water. Even today, one can easily notice that German agricultural lands look considerably greener and more fertile than France’s or Spain’s.
Climate matters and forces people to adapt. As a consequence of the climatic differences between North and South, the easier access to water allowed Northern peoples to settle wherever they liked, giving way to a more individualist and dispersed society. Around the time of Christ, the Roman historian Tacitus noted that the Germanic tribes didn’t even have any cities. There was simply no need to huddle people together in dense urban areas. Instead, each family could settle on a patch of earth of its own.
What was the ecological bottleneck for life in the North, then? Most certainly it was the availability of fuel —in the form of firewood and food — that needed to be stored up before the arrival of long, harsh winters. Temperatures often drop below freezing point for months in a row. The short summers put a lot of pressure on the inhabitants of the North since they had little time to amass what resources they could get their hands on in order to prepare for the coming frost.
A Revaluation of all Values
In short, even within Europe, individualist Northerners have historically evolved their societies very differently from people living in the South. Different environments produce different peoples with different cultures and different attitudes towards their survival. But there’s an even more profound truth: people who adapted to different landscapes and climates also evolved different collective psyches.
That means people don’t just look different, they think differently too. The Mediterranean and Middle Eastern principles of collectivism, rationalism or universalism may suit them well but may have a detrimental effect on more individualist peoples. No wonder, then, that Martin Luther sought to reform Catholicism, it didn’t work for the Germans. Similarly, North American notions of democracy may suit them perfectly, but may not be of any help to the collectivist peoples of East Asia, let alone those of the whole world.
Coincidentally, this insight predicts that if Catholicism couldn’t subdue the Northern Europeans, then neither will Islam; even if the process takes several centuries to sort itself out.
Yet, today, precisely the more collectivist Catholic ideologies appear to be governing the United States, and by extension the West, even though most Americans are Protestant. It doesn’t surprise me. At around 43 degrees latitude, New York, and Washington lie closer to Madrid and Rome than to Northern European cities. (By comparison, Jordan Peterson grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, which at 53 degrees latitude lies on par with Hamburg and Berlin.)
In addition, mainstream media have shut themselves off from reality by incessantly promoting the principles of equality, one-worldism, the global open society, and scientific rationalism, because these are the principles that govern the inhabitants of cramped urban areas. Since the world’s most powerful media companies, as well as their employees, generally live and work in big cities, all they know is to promote their subjective, urban view of the world, ignoring the fact that the world isn’t New York City. Ultimately, that may prove to be an unsustainable worldview.
A New, Germanic Christendom
As urban governments in both Western Europe and North America have taken the Christian love of strangers to the point of committing demographic suicide, it turns out that a slave’s religion doesn’t quite transform men into the wolves they need to be to fight off the barbarians at the gates. That is, until now. Jordan Peterson has de facto established a new Christian religion. More specifically, he has reinvigorated Christianity with manlier, Germanic ideals of individualism, authority, hierarchy, and inequality.
It isn’t the first time Northern peoples have tried to ‘upgrade’ Christianity. As I mentioned, it was Martin Luther who started the Reformation. Later, in those dreaded 1930s, it was ideologue Alfred Rosenberg who called upon the German people to do away with Christianity altogether. He urged them to replace this middle-eastern “superstition” (Zauberglaube) with something of their own. Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung had noted a similar trend, writing,
“As the Christian view of the world loses its authority, the more menacingly will the ‘blond beast’ be heard prowling about in its underground prison, ready at any moment to burst out with devastating consequences.”
Rosenberg’s best-selling book The Myth of the Twentieth Century — outselling Hitler’s Mein Kampf—shocked Catholics so much the Catholic Church added the book to the index of forbidden books. But unlike Mein Kampf, Germans actually read The Myth. It electrified them. Priests and pastors began openly questioning the truth of Christianity with churchgoers. Many more, though, found Rosenberg’s calls way too radical. Moderates suggested an intermediate solution, i.e. a Deutsches Christentum or Germany Christianity that would gradually return Protestant Christians to the values of their ancestors over the course of several centuries.
Jewish psychoanalyst Erich Fromm later aptly remarked that Northern Europe’s conversion to Christianity had never been completed, to begin with. According to Fromm, European Christianity was really just heathendom with Christian symbols. Perhaps he was right. Catholicism civilized the rational side of Northern Europeans but failed to convince their emotional, barbaric soul. Christianity was always the religion of the Catholic victors who subdued Northern minds. What the Romans couldn’t achieve by the sword, Catholic missionaries achieved with words.
Rosenberg’s plans were soon forgotten. Out of fear of international ridicule, Hitler vetoed against a religious revolution. Rosenberg would be hanged at the Nuremberg trials for his antisemitism.
Reinvigorating Christianity
Nevertheless, the fact that Rosenberg’s ideas had resonated so strongly with the German people indicated a crisis underneath the surface. Jordan Peterson has rather put the focus on reinterpretations and revaluations of Biblical scripture. By applying the teachings of Jung, Nietzsche, Heidegger and other Germanic and Nordic thinkers, Peterson offers his YouTube followers a version of Christianity that suits his followers and our time better.
On a recent episode of Rubin Report, Peterson discussed some of his ideas with orthodox Jew Ben Shapiro. At some point halfway through, Peterson said of religious experiences that “the downside of transcendence is something that’s not to be trifled with”. Those words rang a bell. Carl Jung, in opposition to Freud’s reductionist view of human beings as biological machines, had written them too,
“I can understand very well that Freud’s reduction of everything psychic to primitive sexual wishes and power-drives has something about it that is beneficial and satisfying to the Jew … [but] these specifically Jewish doctrines are thoroughly unsatisfying to the Germanic mentality; we still have a genuine barbarian in us who is not to be trifled with …”
According to Peterson, “Jews put a tremendous amount of emphasis on the State as a mechanism for salvation,” and that “the [Protestant] Christians come down more strongly on the side of the individual, and the Jews come down more strongly on the side of the [collective] State.” Although Jews are certainly not sending missionaries around the world to convert everyone to Judaism, the ideal of an overarching, abstract State certainly affects the non-believers.
In recent years, Europeans’ greatest fear has been that the European Union would turn out to be a transnational superstate, and indeed it has. Such abstract organizations, copied after the United Nations and the Federal U.S. Government — themselves undoubtedly inspired by ancient Rome and the Roman Catholic Church— as well as their invented anthems, flags and postmodern moralities merely serve to submit European peoples to even more convoluted systems oppression they cannot oppose.
Soon, we may expect the United States and the European Union to be absorbed by an even more abstract entity— the World State and the Global Open Society. It’s just that the global open society that includes everyone is also a prison no one can escape from.
That is where we are today. There is a war going on. But it is not a war between Jews and Germans, not one between Christians and Muslims, not between natives and immigrants, nor between men and women, but between free individuals and the collectives that aim to assimilate them. If the rulers of U.S. Empire, their EU vassals and their propaganda arms at the United Nations thought they could stay the radar forever by hiding themselves behind puppet elections, they are wrong. The world has long taken notice.
If anyone is going to halt the advance of yet another attempt at Global Empire and save humanity from collective slavery, I predict it will be the Western peoples of Northern European, Germanic descent. If Protestant Christians accept Peterson’s reinvigorated religion, they might pull it off. They are the descendants of the men and women who resisted globalism for nearly 2,000 years. There’s no reason to surrender now.