Our beloved and dreaded Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH), Voxemort the Malevolent, author of the bestselling exploration of the personal philosophy and works of one Prof. Jordan B. Peterson, drew up his set of 12 rules for life, back in late November last year, that he believes are far superior to anything that the High Priest of the Lobster Cult has come up with:
- Embrace the iron. Lifting weights will not only help you stand up straight, it will make you stronger, healthier, and more confident. The iron teaches the weak to be strong and it teaches the strong to be humble.
- Take the wheel. You are the ultimate architect of your own decisions and actions. Even if you were dealt a bad card by life, even if your genetics are inferior, your upbringing was terrible, and your instincts are suboptimal, you are the only one who can improve yourself. You are driving and only you can determine the destination.
- Be the friend that you want to have. Smiles are contagious. Loyalty inspires loyalty. Stand by those who stand by you. Give every friend who fails you a second chance. Only abandon those who have repeatedly proven they cannot be trusted and do not wish you well.
- Envision perfection and pursue excellence. You will never achieve perfection. But if you envision it and you strive for it, you may well achieve success, and perhaps even excellence.
- Put a ring on it. Marriage is the manifestation of love. Children are the manifestation of hope. Raising a family to serve as the foundation of future generations is how Man rebels against an uncaring universe, a fallen world, and the spirits of despair and destruction. Yes, there are real risks, especially in the current social and legal environment. But they are well worth taking nevertheless.
- Set your face against evil. You will encounter evil within and evil without on a daily basis. Stand against all of it, without fear, without hesitation, and without remorse. And when you fail, when you give into temptation, when you are defeated, regroup, repent, and rise again.
- Do what is right. Learn to listen to the still, small voice of conscience. Do what you know to be right, not what you can rationalize, justify, or excuse. If you have to talk yourself into something, then you probably already know in your heart of hearts that you are doing the wrong thing.
- Tell the truth in kindness. It is too hard and too exhausting to spend all your mental energies trying to keep track of an ever-growing multitude of exaggerations, false narratives, self-serving spins, and outright lies. Just tell the truth, as you best understand it, without taking pride in it or using it to hurt others.
- Learn the easy way. You will always encounter those who are stronger, smarter, and more successful than you are. Rather than envying them or attempting to tear them down to make yourself feel better, do your best to learn from them and apply those lessons to your own life. It is considerably easier and more efficient to learn from the mistakes of others than it is to make all of those same mistakes yourself.
- Believe the mirror. The most reliably self-destructive mistake you can make is to lie to yourself about who, what, and where you are, because doing so precludes any real self-improvement. Be ruthless with your self-assessments, without wallowing in self-pity or despair.
- Get back on the horse. Perseverance is one of the most important skills a man can develop. There is absolutely no substitute for the confidence and the courage that comes from the certain knowledge that you will get up again after an opponent, or life, knocks you down.
- Find a best friend. Dogs teach us many things, perhaps the most important of which is what unconditional love is. No matter how rich and successful a man may be, there is no life that the addition of a dog would not considerably improve. And yes, all dogs go to Heaven, obviously, because Heaven would not be paradise without them.
If you have read Jordanetics, you will note immediately that these rules for life are significantly more positive than Prof. Peterson’s. Moreover, His Voxness does not need 500 pages in which to meander through all of the various meanings and tangents and contradictions that are to be found in the Tzeentchian maze of his own mind.
Every single one of the Dark Lord’s rules are designed to take weak and broken instruments, and put them back together, stronger, tougher, more capable, and more dangerous than they were before. His rules work because they are unambiguous in both intent and outcome.
It is vitally important to understand that this brokenness can still be put to use. Read your Bible a bit – I do, every morning, these days – and you will quickly realise that the Father uses broken men and women to work His wonders. Being broken is no bad thing – PROVIDED that a man recognises his own innate brokenness, and works hard to improve himself, to make himself better, and to strengthen his body, soul, and spirit against the evil that rules this world.
The reality is that each and every one of us is flawed, Fallen, broken, imperfect in myriad ways. This is the harsh, undeniable truth of the human condition. Not one of us is perfect, nor can ever be. That perfection, that divine state of Godhood, is not intended for men; any and all attempts to reach it have, by definition and necessity, failed, and many of those attempts have come at a truly appalling cost in blood and human skulls.
Prof. Peterson, to his credit – but not overly much of it – did recognise in his book that he was writing for people who are themselves flawed and broken. He had encountered plenty of young men throughout his speaking tours and university lectures who lack purpose, direction, and moral foundation in life. He knows and understands full well that identity politics is on the rise precisely because there is a deep and terrible spiritual void within society that is eating away relentlessly at its young men.
Unfortunately, Prof. Peterson’s solution to this problem is to become mediocre.
Seriously, that is basically what his advice boils down to. Forget all the guff about “standing up straight” and “lobsters” and “dominance hierarchies” and “taking your damn pills” and “cleaning your room” and “petting a cat on the street” – it all comes down to: “just be good enough, not exceptional”.
This is disastrous advice for red-blooded but weakly-led young men.
The reality is that men need powerful, masculine, idealised role models. We need to have goals in life. We are not meant to just sit around shiftlessly and wait for things to get done around us. Passivity and boredom are the absolutely lethal enemies of a man’s health, in every sense – physical, mental, and spiritual.
Furthermore, there is little point in cleaning one’s room and putting one’s own house in order, when the barbarians are at the gate, pounding it down with battering rams, and flooding into the streets to destroy what is left of a once-great and proud civilisation. The neatest and most ordered room in the world will not save a man who doesn’t know what he lives for – much less what he fights for.
It is useful, by the way, to compare the work of the High Priest of Jordanetics to another, earlier modern-day “prophet”: Lafayette Ron Hubbard.
I have had to become familiar with LRH’s book, Dianetics, over the last few weeks, for personal reasons. I’ve only read about 4 chapters in, which is remarkably slow reading for someone like me, but from what I can see so far, virtually every single claim that the Prophet of Scientology made is either absurd, or beyond falsification, or both.
Dianetics is shot through with severe inconsistencies and massive errors of logic and empirical observation. For instance, Hubbard claimed repeatedly that his new “Modern Science of Mental Health” was purely scientific in nature – yet also claimed that his “equations” (none of which, as far as I am aware, have ever been made fully public) were based on axioms that were as good as natural laws.
That is a blatant contradiction in terms. If a scientific theory is axiomatic, it is neither scientific nor a theory; it is a law, or at worst a theorem, because it is rooted in logical syllogisms that are themselves based on objectively true facts.
In order for something to be a scientific theory, it must be open to falsification. To take a very well-known and well-understood example, let’s look at the Law of Gravity. This is a misnomer, actually. The “Law” of Gravity is considered a law because NO violation of it has ever been observed.
However, if you were somehow able to show that, say, a 5Kg lead weight moved up to the ceiling instead of down to the floor when you dropped it, then you would have disproven the “Law” of Gravity. The scientists would have to go back to the drawing board and ask just why the hell their “law” didn’t work.
The reason why I bring up this seeming digression is because the very same casual arrogance about “laws” of nature permeates Prof. Peterson’s book as it does in L. Ron Hubbard’s. (I promise, that triple alliteration was not intentional. The digression was, though.)
After all, he calls them “12 Rules for Life”. Not twelve “suggestions” or “ideas” – rules. That is the reason why the Supreme Dark Lord (PBUH) calls Prof. Peterson’s philosophy “Jordanetics” – because it is every bit as dangerous, yet silly and incoherent, as L. Ron Hubbard’s collection of esotericisms, pseudophilosophical ramblings, Eastern mysticisms, and rambling nonsense.
The problem is that those Jordanetics “rules” are densely packed bafflegarble (to borrow a term) once you examine them reasonably closely. They lead to very bad places over time. They are designed to keep young men, in particular, “on the reservation” of acceptable thought and action, where they can be more easily coerced and managed by the globalist elite who all want us to look, act, and think the same way.
The only way to their counteract insipidity, fecklessness, laziness, ennui, and spiritual decay, is to find something worth fighting for, and worth protecting.
The Dark Lord’s rules are designed to give a man these very things – not only that, but they are designed to give him the skills and tools needed to fight.
A man needs purpose in his life. He needs something to stand for. He needs a reason to fight. He needs to draw strength and inspiration for his body, soul, and especially spirit. He needs loyal allies to support and help him in his mission.
He most definitely does not need to be told to stop and pet a cat on the street.
1 Comment
Didact
Sed contra: dogs have mortal souls and thus are annihaliated on death. So while nothing's impossible with God, it's clear that animals simply cease to exist after death So cherish dogs
On conscience: it needs to be rightly formed. A book I've heard recommended is Fr Goshel's A small still voice which addresses this confusing issue
Ignatian spiritual exercises are helpful for examination of conscience.
Learn the easy way: does he mean be smart, think smart and think outside of the box how you can compete with the excellent types?
Overall good advice it's up to us to adapt it to our situations and worldview
xavier