Re-Enchantment, Hierarchy, Jung, and The Sacred
I was trying to write about social power and fell down this rabbit hole
Retrophiles like Jordan Peterson defend the Hobbesian, fear-inspired and domination-driven perspective of the world (and pretty explicitly defend patriarchy) through appeals to theories on the “natural origins” of hierarchy and genetically predetermined social positioning.
There are significant problems with the line of thinking which proposes genetic an…
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