Moral orders are not arbitrary.
We talked about this briefly in the earlier commentary posts ("The Prophets of Baal Were Executed". One cannot believe simply whatever one wishes to believe, and hope to successfully live out one's life.
In July, I wrote a thing for the Mises Institute (shout-out to Jordan Bush and the Thank God for Bitcoin crowd):
This allegory has stayed with me for months: freedom isn't libertine or absence of obstacles, but rules pertinent to one's nature. "The validity of a given worldview," writes Jordan Peterson in the book, "is therefore anything but arbitrary. Instead, it is dependent on or mirrors the accuracy with which it reflects the natural, social, and psychological world."
I thus found p. 18 to be crazy powerful. Here's the full page, in all its Nietzschean beauty:
Man’s dominion over the earth must be SUSTAINABLE; “must make what is good still better.”
THIS BIT (on p. 9) resonates:
I remember Allen Farrington talking about this but applied to finance/companies, in his "Capital in the 21st Century" piece from earlier this year: Profit, not merely in an accounting sense but in increasing capital is needed because it's the "only sustainable way" to run a business.
Something similar is going on here: For humans—and humanity—to flourish sustainable, we must find/discover/uncover good rules that fit our human nature. Reality matters.
I'm pretty sure we'll be presented with a few (if not, check the previous two books—lol!), and in the first 50 pages we get quite a few singers about men and women and their various domains (#801615). Nothing like controversy, eh.
Anyway—enjoy away, Stackers!
P.S., sorry these posts are taking forever. The book is dense af and I, like all you blessed souls, have other superseding commitments.
Also, there's no rush; these 500 pages will take the time they take.