Roughly Speaking: Who is Dr Jordan Peterson? And Why Does it Matter?
How to clean your room, confront the dragon and become a real boy, or girl

Well, who is he?
The first time I heard of Dr Peterson was back in October 2016. My first reaction was of course: “Who’s this old, misogynous, and bigoted transphobe? Why can’t he just respect peoples’ freedom of identity expression?” But I took a closer look and what I found was not what I had expected.
Months down the line I have now watched two entire courses of his and other related clips on his Youtube channel, like: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief and The Psychological Significance of The Biblical Stories (see here). After watching these I can confidently say that my view of his stance has completely changed. And here’s why:
What does he do?
He’s a clinical psychologist at University of Toronto. His work, which is indebted to Nietzsche, Existentialism, Jung’s Psychoanalysis and Piaget’s Developmental Psychology, attempts to wrestle with contemporary pathologies induced significantly by ideology.
His affiliation with Anti-SJW commentary is not accidental, but is not fully representative of it either. Like Wittgenstein’s ladder, he used the momentum of the gender identity debate and a critique of political correctness to launch his own platform. Now he has kicked it aside and has been kicking-ass intellectually, and dropping red pills ever since.
What has he said?
The ontological and epistemology debates between sexes are not what makes Peterson’s account noteworthy. What matters is his message on the personal call to responsibility in the face of nihilism and tyranny, roughly speaking.
He uses the analogy that people need to get their own house in order — to “clean your room” as he has said. This means to straighten yourself out so that you can confront the frightening unknown (the dragon nestled deep within or Jonah’s whale under the sea), and do things in a way that is not degenerating for yourself, for your family and for others — and which can work for now, tomorrow and in the future. Basically its the new categorical imperative for the twenty-first century.
“You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.” ― Jordan B. Peterson
Why does it matter?
“Life is suffering, that’s clear”. The question is what can we do about it? It’s a primordial concern that has been lingered over the human condition for millennia. Sure you may be wearing clothes right now, kudos if not, but in fact we are all naked. The point is to realize our vulnerability but still do courageous things in spite of our limitations. Dr Peterson’s thinking won’t solve this problem, but it will make things a hell of a lot better for you.

If you are critically-minded and philosophically-endowed, I highly recommend you consider his moral argument and try find a way to poke holes in it without resorting to a stickman. Or if you’re a just a fan of Disney films, minus Frozen, you’ll find he has some really cool things to say about stories like Pinnochio, Lion King and Harry Potter.
Whether mythology, philosophy or psychology floats your boat or not, or if you genuinely want to know how to operate properly in the world, lend him your ears I say. Because to those with the ability to listen, speak and write properly abundance will be given, and for those who do not all will be taken from them.
… And that’s all I have to say about that.
