You might have realised from my first blog post that I’ve been inspired to make a few changes to my life thanks to guys like Dr Jordan Peterson… So you can’t imagine how pleased I was to hear that he was finally making the long trek to Australia to speak some truth down under.
It’s not often I’m poetic but there are very rare cases where I make exceptions…
An ode to The Dragonslayer
We decided that progress was lacking and we were eager to lead the pack
So we searched for transcendent meaning, but we forget to look down the back.
At that time we were all in a hurry, and we believed all that we heard
so we left behind weak, evil masters, who distorted the wisdom we’d learned.
After squabbling in muddy waters, they took to teaching our kids
and while teaching wasn’t the problem, the material had lost a few ribs.
Soon after one side remained hollow, our knowledge had a left-leaning tilt
And our children came out more fragile, aggressive and armed with white guilt.
They marched from our great institutions, and decided to take up the fight
they took aim at the system that built them, and empowered them with such a right.
They tore down statues and flagpoles, in their cross-hairs historical greats
they wanted to silence the thinker, before he could point out their mistake.
We surrounded the campus quadrangle, he addressed us in booming voice
“They cannot stop me from speaking” he said, “This is my right; not their choice”.
“I won’t let them govern my language, it’s time that this part was made clear
We’ve witnessed this tyranny elsewhere, not again, not on my watch, my dear.”
So he taught us all about dragons, and the chaos they sheltered inside
He taught us about the hero, and the order he sought to provide.
He showed us how nothing was new here, all we knew, we’d known all along
He called out a lie a when he saw one, he interrupted the post-modernist song.
He opened my mind to meaning, and how there was so much more than just this
He appealed to my competitive nature, and soon filled out my to-do list.
He pushed me to clean up my room, and I began to sort myself out
And before I could realise what happened, I was noticing dragons about.
His voice has only revived us, we were always willing to fight
with truth and responsibility weapons, with meaning and order in sight
the time has come now to hand over, to a man of immeasurable merit
a man who’s done heavy lifting, and never once taken the credit.
I’m sure you’ll all gather to listen, to be challenged and to fight back
I’m sure you’ll pin back your shoulders, stand upright and face the attack.
I know that you’ll all help me welcome, the professor here to Australia
Jordan Peterson might be his real name, I simply call him: dragon slayer.
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