Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Prof. Peterson, do you think schizotypal pattern-recognition misfiring could be due to a developmental issue (maybe our thinking doesn't scale up properly), or maybe our mood/emotions skew our aim? Your observation is the first of its kind that I've heard and the most apt, and I've had a heck of a time finding helpful information on the nature of this problem; thank you for that insight and any more thoughts you have to add.
A Priori Perception and Person-to-Person Imprints
Hello Dr. Peterson, I am soon to graduate law school, and I can't help but think about the impact that your ideas put forth in your talk at Cambridge recently would have on a factfinder, (judge, jury etc., ( as I hope to litigate)). Is it possible to be even close to objective? If so, is it trained behavior like your Machiavellian male and younger female example? If not, what differentiates it from the preconceived/unconscious biases theory put forth by Marxism, CRT etc.? If indeed, your perception of a door and "place to walk through" are simultaneous imprints on your psyche, does this translate to the perception of others around you? For instance, I heard you once talk about a punk rocker you spotted in Canada holding a shopping bag, and you described him as (somewhat like) a force-to-be. Having been a punk myself in my youth I can use my subjective understanding to realize that you're likely correct in your perception in this case; but for others, (who also lack the learned experience described in your Machiavellian example), how does this play out? Power doesn't help in the above example, there are a lot of variables to consider, but for power to work you'd have to be thinking about dominance constantly, and that's just nonsense, because then why care for the sick and elderly, or help someone else's lost child? Humans have something beyond power as a motivator, and with a factfinder in mind, how does that play on the illusion of objectivity?
Destruction of negative beliefs
I recently discovered, through a series of your old videos that the malevolence I'd encountered actually HAD led to complex PTSD. I have suffered unbelievably for 20 years, the whole time not being able to truly face the incident (spousal rape) because of the ultimate knowledge that it was my fault. My discovery of the true, and deep malevolence was because of your description of depersonalization (described by him as an out of body experience), which, because I was young and very, very naive was the goal of the exercise suggested my my sociopathic (diagnosed at 14) husband. The emotions I've experienced the last few days have been quite overwhelming, but I've had unimaginable relief and my negative self talk has spontaneously, and without effort on my part become compassionate. Is this a widespread phenomenon? The instantaneous change in behavior due to the destruction of a negative, or incorrect belief?
Do men seek honourable deaths?
What do you think about men aiming for an honourable death? Honourable male death seems to be celebrated by western culture: the lives of Klingons, Spartans, James Bond, John Wick, Tony Stark, Socrates and Jesus Christ celebrate men on suicide missions who ultimately succeed by dying for a greater cause. Is dying for a greater cause for men what raising children is for women?