Perhaps the only thing that is easy to understand in James Joyce’s experimental novel “Finnegan’s Wake” is that the final line ends abruptly in the middle of the sentence which is finished in the book’s opening line, thereby creating a loop, or as he puts it, a “vicus of recirculation.” So has it been with Jordan Peterson. As a major public intellectual, he has rhetorically journeyed far and wide, but ever since his rise to prominence it always comes back to just one thing: The good doctor will not be forced to use your pronouns.
Peterson is currently locked out of his Twitter account as a result of a tweet in which he said that pride has traditionally been a sin (rather than something to celebrate with flags and months), and that actor Ellen (now Elliot) Page had had her breasts removed by a “criminal physician.” Twitter says he can delete the tweet and escape this form of cyber purgatory, but in a fiery YouTube video this week he said, “I would rather die than do that. And hopefully it will not come to that, although who the hell knows in these increasingly strange days?”
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