I used to no mind Jordan Peterson. I listened to him a lot, thought he just talked a lot without saying anything. But as soon as he started talking about climate change, something in which he has -zero fucking authority- , that’s when I started to really dislike him. Pseudo intellectualist where a good portions of his arguments are structured with motivated reasoning.
Especially considering that he preached that experts in a given domain should be the authoritative figure for that domain.
“You see social injustice as a youth? Quit whining and protesting! Go be the expert in the field and gather decades of experience. Only then should the society listen to you. Except if you’re a freedom trucker. Then You should absolutely protest against the government”.
For a supposedly logical man, he’s pretty illogical and full of contradictions.
I live near him and remember him being on a CBC political talk show on occasion, he wore a feathered fedora and often had the contrarian viewpoint to some liberal notion of social change. Before he made a name for himself lying about the bill that added gender to Canada’s definition of things people can be discriminated based on, he had this personality assessment program and would post random videos on youtube. I remember watching one called “one hour on a single Nietzsche paragraph,” and it was about at the level that other philosophy channels discussed the subject, if maybe a bit more verbose.
After his trans bill thing is when he started to explode in popularity, this was when “anti-SJW” stuff was big on YouTube. Like you had these ridiculous interactions that would get uploaded and drawn in the a political context, stuff like “big red” in Toronto, “Hugh Mongous,” “feminist gets owned.” Eventually most content creators tuned in to how these ridiculous videos were being associated with the burgeoning alt-right and the unwanted attention that brought to their channels, h3h3 was a big one for this as they openly discussed and addressed it many times.
Jordy’s personality brand is now basically a cash cow advertising opportunity for Daily Mail or whatever business interests benefit from his persona. For some reason their family has some weird medical issues and that also works it’s way in to their content. The commodified branding of this is always some absurd exaggerated abstraction, like “ALL BEEF DIET.” Their entire business is basically selling their personalities and doing PR. With addiction and politics in the mix it just becomes this absurd spectacle, especially with how his cognitive abilities have seemed to decline. He’s such a miserable person, that’s always been the case.
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I used to no mind Jordan Peterson. I listened to him a lot, thought he just talked a lot without saying anything. But as soon as he started talking about climate change, something in which he has -zero fucking authority- , that’s when I started to really dislike him. Pseudo intellectualist where a good portions of his arguments are structured with motivated reasoning.
Especially considering that he preached that experts in a given domain should be the authoritative figure for that domain.
“You see social injustice as a youth? Quit whining and protesting! Go be the expert in the field and gather decades of experience. Only then should the society listen to you. Except if you’re a freedom trucker. Then You should absolutely protest against the government”.
For a supposedly logical man, he’s pretty illogical and full of contradictions.
I wonder if his shiny new suits are his way of signaling his selling out?
I live near him and remember him being on a CBC political talk show on occasion, he wore a feathered fedora and often had the contrarian viewpoint to some liberal notion of social change. Before he made a name for himself lying about the bill that added gender to Canada’s definition of things people can be discriminated based on, he had this personality assessment program and would post random videos on youtube. I remember watching one called “one hour on a single Nietzsche paragraph,” and it was about at the level that other philosophy channels discussed the subject, if maybe a bit more verbose.
After his trans bill thing is when he started to explode in popularity, this was when “anti-SJW” stuff was big on YouTube. Like you had these ridiculous interactions that would get uploaded and drawn in the a political context, stuff like “big red” in Toronto, “Hugh Mongous,” “feminist gets owned.” Eventually most content creators tuned in to how these ridiculous videos were being associated with the burgeoning alt-right and the unwanted attention that brought to their channels, h3h3 was a big one for this as they openly discussed and addressed it many times.
Jordy’s personality brand is now basically a cash cow advertising opportunity for Daily Mail or whatever business interests benefit from his persona. For some reason their family has some weird medical issues and that also works it’s way in to their content. The commodified branding of this is always some absurd exaggerated abstraction, like “ALL BEEF DIET.” Their entire business is basically selling their personalities and doing PR. With addiction and politics in the mix it just becomes this absurd spectacle, especially with how his cognitive abilities have seemed to decline. He’s such a miserable person, that’s always been the case.