Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths | The New Republic

Jordan Peterson’s Tired Old Myths | The New Republic: In his 1999 book The Politics of Myth, University of California religion scholar Robert Ellwood argued that these mythologists disdained modern society but “lauded traditional ‘rooted’ peasant culture, including its articulation in myths that came not from writers but from ‘the people,’ and they no less praised the charismatic heroes ancient and modern who allegedly personified that culture’s supreme values.” Ellwood also notes that “the profoundest flaw of mythological thinking” was “a tendency to think in generic terms of peoples, races, religions, or parties.”