Jordan Peterson penned a new op-ed Monday that absolutely torches the lockdown tyrants in Canada:
Let's go through the most fiery sections together.
After discussing the absolute staffing mess in banks, airports, and other industries caused by these insane restrictions, and the unbelievable lack of food on grocery store shelves, JP cuts to the heart of what's happening to civilization itself:
We are pushing the complex systems upon which we depend and which are miraculously effective and efficient in their often thankless operation to their breaking point. Can you think of anything more unlikely than the fact that we can get instant trouble-free access to our money online, using systems that are virtually graft- and corruption-free? Just imagine how much work, trust and efficiency was and is necessary to make that a reality. Can you think of anything more unlikely than fast, reliable and inexpensive jet air travel, nationally and internationally, in absolute safety? Or the constant provision of almost every consumer good imaginable, in the midst of plentiful, varied and inexpensive food?
Think about it: Our fathers and their fathers sacrificed so much to create this dazzling modern world with all its efficiency and inventions. We stand on the shoulders of giants who built the Hoover Dam, produced antibiotics, put a man on the moon, and created disease-resistant grains – all without the convenience of the internet or smartphones.
We've become so irrationally afraid of a virus that we're almost ready to throw all those achievements away. Sure, we might be living in caves and hunting with spears in a hundred years, but at least it won't be Covid that killed us!
These systems are now shaking. We're compromising them seriously with this unending and unpredictable stream of restrictions, lockdowns, regulations and curfews. We're also undermining our entire monetary system, with the provision of unending largesse from government coffers, to ease the stress of the COVID response. We're playing with fire. We've demolished two Christmas seasons in a row. Life is short. These are rare occasions. We're stopping kids from attending school. We're sowing mistrust in our institutions in a seriously dangerous manner. We're frightening people to make them comply. We're producing bureaucratic institutions that hypothetically hold public health in the highest regard, but subordinating all our properly political institutions to that end, because we lack leadership, and rely on ultimately unreliable opinion polls to govern broadscale political policy. I've never seen breakdown in institutional trust on this scale before in my lifetime.
If you're like me, you haven't trusted any of the Alphabet Bois for a long time, and you've had a healthy mistrust of power that's essential to maintain liberty, but deep down, it really is important that people generally trust the institutions of their society to be accountable and of goodwill.
Doesn't matter if it's the local school board or the CDC: if citizens feel the offices, departments, and agencies created (by them) to maintain freedom and order are actually corrupt, society begins to unravel. History shows what happens next.
There are no risk-free paths forward. There is only one risk, or another. Pick your poison: that's the choice life often offers. I am weary of living under the increasingly authoritarian dictates of a polity hyper-concerned with one risk, and oblivious to all others. And things are shaking around us.
Enough, Canadians. Enough, Canadian politicos. Enough masks. Enough social gathering limitations. Enough restaurant closures. Enough undermining of social trust. Make the bloody vaccines available to those who want them. Quit using force to ensure compliance on the part of those who don't. Some of the latter might be crazy but, by and large, they are no crazier than the rest of us.
Set a date. Open the damn country back up, before we wreck something we can't fix.
Time for some courage.
Let's live again.
LET'S GOOOOO!
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