Peterson Says Ontario Lawyers Report Court Cases Now Unpredictable Due to Woke Judges
"I got the lawyers I know in Ontario who have a clue have told me multiple times that five years ago when they took a court case, they knew if they were going to win or lose because they knew the precedence and they knew if they had a strong case or not. And if they had a strong case and they knew the precedence, they could predict the outcome. They told me recently that they can't tell it all anymore because the probability that the judge will take it upon him or herself to arbitrarily decide in some generally woke direction is enough to make the whole bloody process random."
About this episode
Jordan Peterson delivers an extensive lecture on ethics, personal development, and the relationship between storytelling and human behavior as part of his "We Who Wrestle With God" series. Peterson argues that modern civilization developed technological sophistication through a dream-like alchemical process lasting thousands of years but left ethical development unconscious and primitive. He contends that humans perceive reality through value hierarchies structured as stories, and that fiction represents hyperreal abstractions of character and behavior patterns. Peterson introduces his Self-Authoring Suite, a structured writing program developed with colleagues to help people systematically examine their past traumas and construct coherent future visions across seven life domains including relationships, career, family, and civic responsibility. He warns that artificial intelligence development requires corresponding ethical development in humans since AI systems will learn from human behavior. In a Q&A session, Peterson makes controversial claims about Canada's deteriorating international reputation following bank account seizures during the trucker convoy, and alleges that Ontario lawyers report judicial outcomes have become unpredictable due to ideologically motivated judges abandoning legal precedent. He advocates for increased civic participation and suggests that Portugal's approach to drug decriminalization combining liberal availability with mandatory treatment requirements offers a viable policy model. Peterson closes by discussing how his decision to wear formal suits to speaking events unexpectedly influenced audiences to dress formally, with many young men purchasing their first suits to attend his shows.
Key takeaways
- Peterson claims Canada's international reputation is in shambles following bank account seizures, shocking even Eastern European socialists
- Ontario lawyers reportedly tell Peterson that judicial outcomes have become unpredictable due to judges making ideologically motivated decisions
- Peterson warns that developing artificial intelligence requires corresponding ethical human development since AI will learn from human behavior
- Western civilization developed technological sophistication through alchemy but left ethical development unconscious and primitive according to Peterson
- Peterson's Self-Authoring Suite uses structured writing to help people examine past traumas and construct future visions across seven life domains
- Peterson advocates for civic participation and suggests Portugal's drug policy combining liberal availability with mandatory treatment as a model
- Peterson argues humans perceive reality through value hierarchies structured as stories and that fiction represents hyperreal character abstractions