![]() ![]() “What are we going to win here exactly?” Peterson asked Piers Morgan, saying that even if Ukraine kicks Russia out of its territory, the nation will be totally devastated. Peterson, the great champion of gumption, misses out on this brilliant resilience. “This war is sorting out what is right to chase in life,” said my friend Roman, who comes from a town the Russians have occupied since 2014. ![]() I hate to think of it, but where would we be without the war?” “You can do anything, connect with anyone these days. “In the war, we see possibilities,” a Ukrainian friend told me. The devastation is atrocious, but in the struggle, gains are made. Facing a close prospect of death and destruction, the already free-speaking Ukrainians are not afraid to speak their honest emotions. Daily conversations here focus on surviving, adapting, growing. Lewis wrote that war doesn’t change life but it intensifies it. In war-time Ukraine, everything is, to use Austin, Texas-Silicon Valley speak, 10x. Threatened by people it cannot control, Moscow fires rockets. Peterson and Rogan have praised the truck drivers protesting Covid rules in Ottawa, but for some reason have no respect for Ukraine’s much more serious revolution, so successful that there was no need for mass protests during the pandemic. They actually won-well, at least they won for eight years and now they must win again. The Revolution of Dignity, also called “Maidan,” or public square, has to be the most successful anti-establishment movement of our times, because the people refused to flinch. Nine Februarys ago, Ukrainians proved this iron will: They stood in Kyiv’s freezing streets and faced the bullets of the secret police until the Rada, the parliament, unanimously voted to oust the corrupt pro-Putin regime, which had already fled anyway. That word is embedded in their Trident symbol. One year of resistance has shown the world that you also can’t say “no” to the Ukrainians, for whom the idea of freedom-of being self-directors-is so vital that they have a special word that goes beyond freedom: volya, the will to freedom. “Because you can’t win against someone you cannot say no to.” “We cannot win against Vladimir Putin,” Peterson said on Piers Morgan’s show last fall. Indeed, Russia seeks to destroy Ukraine, Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life, has largely ignored Ukraine, except when he tells mass media that it’s impossible for Ukraine to win. ![]() “I always loved Jordan Peterson,” my friend Sasha, a Ukrainian knifemaker in Lviv, told me recently. Loved Jordan Peterson, especially his focus on bootstrapping self-reliance. After one year of Ukraine’s Spartan-like resistance to massive Russia neither super-podcaster Joe Rogan nor super-psychologist Jordan Peterson, with masses of followers, have embraced this most amazing story of human excellence.īefore February 24, 2022, many of my Ukrainian friends admired Joe Rogan because of their fierce belief in free speech, something they stand to lose under Russian occupation, and also perhaps because they like to go looking for mushrooms in the forests. The stories of the push for human excellence in difficult circumstances, of radical honesty as people buck each other up, are the sort of things you’d hear on a Joe Rogan podcast or a Jordan Peterson interview.Įxcept we don’t. In these twelve brutal months, I have seen the best of humanity, both from Ukrainians and the foreigners who’ve come to fight, feed, and fortify. ![]() KHARKIV-It’s been nearly one year of war in Ukraine, where I got pleasantly stuck during the pandemic and where I have been every minute of Russia’s full-scale invasion. But after one year of Russia’s big invasion, they largely ignore it, even though morning missile strikes wake you up better than an ice bath. From its rejection of victimhood to its fierce freedom, Ukraine is everything you’d think Jordan Peterson, Joe Rogan, and their followers would love. ![]()
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