The Right Word To Describe Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson has generated a great deal of “controversy,” but as far as I can tell. nobody has chosen the correct word in the taxonomy of who he even is, or what flag he bears.

He is not on the “right” nor “alt-right.”

He is a classical person with a classical mind. Not a contemporary mind—a classical mind. If you listen to this you will hear what I mean.

Last night I listened to him speak of the marriage vow as something designed so that you may not break it. Among the secret truths I mutter to myself, too exhausted to try to share it with modern-minded people, is that divorce is bad, tragic, awful, wrong, and a curse—always, no exceptions.

Ok well…maybe maybe…there are exceptions. Did Elvis Presley “marry” a 12 year old? Or was that Charlie Chaplin?

I will grant you—as a child of divorce, grandchild of divorce on one side, myself divorced—that there can be rare exceptions, but by and large—no.

Young people listening to J.P. can hear this, learn this. He’s been in love with his wife Tammy for fifty years. Who else will tell them that marriage is a vow?

Nobody is more fortunate, there are no people I envy more, than the children of the happily married, living inside something unbroken.