Okay, but I haven't been back to see what that has to do with intelligence and job markets.
...Just as most people fail to acknowledge the debt they owe to culture preferring to think they are their own author and sustenance.
Do most people? Not sure I believe that.
How many times have you stopped to appreciate that your existence is dependent on a military that in it's madness creates order out of chaos.
Never. Not once. Not even right now, when you say so, do I feel tempted to subscribe to the notion that an insane military created order out of chaos. Or even that there was "chaos" before standing armies were constituted.
The same is true of all the other "deplorables".
Let's not sloganize anybody tonight.
The police who keep anarchy at bay,
I think about the police, in several ways and from several perspectives, fairly often. Not convinced that anarchy would instantly break out if they didn't have tanks, though. Not even convinced that anarchy is standing by, waiting for a chance to break out when the cops aren't shooting or kicking somebody.
the utility workers who keep your computer on so you can read this,
Approve, on the whole, of utility workers; not satisfied with "the grid" (my compy is running on a solar panel) or how energy is produced and distributed. Really not pleased with nuclear generators, coal or the huge amount of wattage wasted on keeping office towers lit up all night and the crazy-making advertising neon jungles.
the transportation workers who insure distribution of essential commodities,
Again, problematic. Urban public transport is vital; some goods haulage is important, if not essential - but also, a good deal of it is lugging stuff around the world to cajole people out of money they can't afford for things they don't need, or could produce in better quality locally.
the farmers who distribute the risk of starvation over vast areas making it an almost unheard of problem in modern societies,
I'm slightly confused by the sentence construction, but I do think about farmers. I also think about large-scale, subsidized agri-business. The second put a lot of the first out of commission and made the specter of starvation a little more credible in the west and very much in evidence in the east... so... let's keep thinking about them.
the sanitation workers who make your world safe from diseases,
I think we should value them above commodities traders. Maybe even pay them better. What d'you say?
the energy workers who make modern society possible,
Couple holdouts there. Not a fan of oily cormorants and flammable tapwater.
the factory workers who remove all forms of drudgery and multiply your efficiency, the laborers who construct your shelter that keep you warm and dry,
I thought their increasing and accelerating redundancy was a major problem in society right now.
The list goes on and the fact that it all works transparently in the back ground is miraculous.
No, it's not miraculous. It's damn hard work, organizing, co-operation, government regulation, tax collecting and allocating, and it needs a great deal of thought. Even so, it's not working nearly as well as it should.
How out of touch with reality the bourgeoisie classes have become
I don't know who's included in that, if it excludes the planners, administrators and regulators of energy production, home construction, transportation, public utilities, infrastructure, law enforcement and sanitation. Shopkeepers? Teachers? Sports announcers? Beef inspectors? Who?
to tell the essential people in there lives that they are deplorable.
Who has done that? Might you not be projecting one person's one campaign statement regarding a (as it turns out
really, really, really deplorable) political enthusiasm into the long-held attitude of one poorly-defined class toward another poorly defined class?
I'm not saying there is no truth in your statement. I'm saying it needs a
lot more scrutiny and contemplation to make sense of what's happened, what the relationships of different groups are and how best to improve them.
Did anyone miss the petty nobility when the guillotine removed their heads? Didn't society go on without hardly a hiccup?
I'd call the reign of terror and the collapse of the economy at least a hiccup. Mass beheadings are not the most stable form of governance. I recommend you consider more carefully than Robespierre did
which heads are surplus to requirement.
Peterson's primary message is that you need to make yourself useful first to yourself and through that effort the people around you.
Well, that's fine. If the system will let you.