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Interesting to me is that Jordan Peterson's biggest beef with Marxism is clearly the materialism, though I'm not sure he ever articulated it that way (too lost being Drunk on Symbols, shame that Richard Dawkins has spent the last decade+ beclowning himself as well.) See his famous rant about how witches live in swamps.

I don't think he's taken seriously by anyone anymore, but I think he was a more pernicious and impactful doorway into conservatism amongst younger people than Trump was (until he won.) He certainly predated Trump's serious entryway into mass public political consciousness anyway. I think his meandering philosophical pontificating was often seen as like, a quirky sideshow from his Respectable Male Mentor stuff, but it's part and parcel of his whole project. God he sucked so bad.

Stephen Jay Gould was always trying to get people to avoid "evolutionary just-so stories" (which conservatives like JBP do all the time, and his were particularly stupid and bad, but I think everyone tries their hand at it.) I think it's fair to say that anthropological versions are also always suspect, also because people tend to view earlier human societies as somehow a product of nature in a way that current ones aren't even though of course they are equally so. And of course, nature produces myriads of systems and life cycles that manage to exist until they don't.

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