doesn't owe you a hero's journey? The most fucked up thing to contemplate. What if God doesn't give a fuck? Probably he doesn't fucking exist, but that is a blogpost for anuddah shoah. Think about it. The guy that gets his legs blown off the moment he hops off the helicopter, natural disaster casualties, freak accidents, etc. Where is your God? Where is this mysterious man in the skies when it is raining dead babies? Did he clock out early? Did He take a sick day? He dead? Or maybe, *drumrollplease*, nigga don't exist. I'm tired of all this motivation porn when the only thing I can aspire to be as part of the alienated underclass is a dead crony, or prisoner. Stop trying to motivate me, because I will only be motivated to bitch smack you with your own self help books that will ironically help me in this instance get the fucking point across. God is fucking dead, and your behavior is exactly why there is no savior.
>>23957027I don't like Peterson, just so it's clearbut I think given his academic background, it's safe to surmise that he's approaching this from a Jungian analytic lens, whereas you're treating it VERY VERY literally, and misunderstanding it in the processan automonomyth doesn't have to involve slaying a princess, or making friends with some kind of Skeleton Lord—it's just a self-narrative which can be framed according to the rough narrative structure fundamental to the hero's journeythe idea being, I think, that it's such a fundamental mode of storytelling—to the entire human species—that it must have underpinnings somewhere deep in our psychological makeupit's solely an aspiration to personal growththe actual adventure can be relatively banal:>living your life at home ->>decide to go on holiday ->>have fear of flying ->>do it anyway ->>see the wonders of another land ->>return home better for the experiencethat is a basic hero's journey narrativelife doesn't have to owe you anything for the above; no synchronicity, fractal magic alignment, or divine hand reaching down from the heavens to open doors requiredit's something you can do for yourselfit touches on the fact that certain types of people need to digest the lessons they learn from life via telling themselves personal stories ABOUT themselvesyou've turned it into a screed about the problems YOU have with the Abrahamic god, whereas he's simply advocating the search for self-narratives through which young men can GROW and REFLECT, because that's really what they need to do—what's wrong with that?>"be brave; be the hero"
