RE: Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion
September 25, 2018 at 2:52 am
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2018 at 3:05 am by bennyboy.)
(September 25, 2018 at 2:06 am)robvalue Wrote: Yeah, I was replying to PRJ who doesn't seem to agree
Lobsters... I don't know what I can possibly say about it. You see things in the text that I don't, I'm afraid! He's trying to draw real, useful analogies from lobsters, which all fail in my opinion.
He's saying that intrinsic to evolution centered around resources, there will be competition. And in order to reduce actual casualties, every animal must develop (read: HAS developed) some competitive mechanism, mediated by instinct and hormones, which will cause losers to step off, and winners to boldly step up to take their prize. And most importantly, they will do so without weakening each other to such a degree that a casual bystander can crush them both and take all the best lobster digs and lobster bitches, even though he might be less fit than the two fighters had been.
This matters, because if you mistakenly overlook that very obvious and natural evolutionary mechanism, you are unlikely to do the things which will give you actual power over your own life-- like expressing self-conviction and belief. You're more likely, say, to complain about Western patriarchal oppression, than actually to get out and make the most of your life.
As for women and chaos-- it turns out that the ability of females to select males is the chaos, not just "bitches be bitches." This is because it is something that to a large degree is beyond a male's control-- whatever efforts he makes, if he is found wanting in some way, he will find himself outside the evolutionary loop, and this. . . well, this doesn't feel very good, does it? This is likely to make a man a permanent loser in his own eyes, and that of others, and cause him depression and anxiety.
Women, for the most part, don't have this problem-- an inability to get a mate. There are very few women indeed who couldn't find someone willing to have sex with them, whatever their confidence level, their income, or anything else. I mean. . . I'd almost say it's 0%.
