It's sometimes difficult to trace Jordan Peterson's thought, and follow the string he's trying to weave. In chapter 3, pages 130-32 (still same as before; making slow, slow progress #844171), we're treated to a very Bitcoiner-like struggle between long-term value and short-term gratification:
It turns into the Cain&Abel story, humanity's first murder:
On the next page we learn the profundity of this otherwise ordinary-seeming murder:
Instead of making his bed, gratefully, Cain becomes murderous and more: deicidal. He kills Abel, of course, but he does so, in the final analysis, to obtain vengeance against God. This is the true description of the deepest possible bitterness and hatred.
Cain rebels, not merely against his more flourishing brother or the deity that guides him, but the very moral order itself.
The connection to our times isn't far off:
There is no shortage of modern atheists who, despite their disbelief, remain perfectly willing, like Cain—and unlike Abel and Job—to shake their fist at God. They may claim to be doing so on behalf of the victims of the world, themselves included.
JBP has a thing or two to say about these victims as well, from an earlier segment (p. 105):
Can't just divide the world into victims and oppressors, thinking that the good guys are always at the bottom and the bad guys on top—almost axiomatically.
Basically: quit whining, shut the fuck up and work harder (better).
There's something very Chestertonian (he of the fence!) in all of this. If you can't identify what it is that's broken, then perhaps at a first approximate conclude not that the order is corrupt and worth blowing to pieces before you've at least considered that your contributions have been insufficient.
Maybe, just maybe, the things you bring to the table aren't up to snuff, aren't as great as you may thing.
I think about this all the time (and then in true Bitcoinery fashion say, "fuck it, afuera with freakin' all of it").
Anyways, good thoughts, good thoughts. Did you guys like these segments? The emphasis on sacrifice and not unduly ascribing error to the system before you really understand it?
I'm new to Bitcoin and I'm here to fix it
turned into
I'm new to thinking about moral systems and more than myself and I'm here to fix everything??