8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

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Jordan Peterson's thought is filled with pseudo-science, bad pop psychology, and deep irrationalism. In other words, he’s full of shit.

A British broadcaster doggedly tried to put words into the academic’s mouth.

I hoped he was done damaging the discourse and would stick to psychology, but instead, he came out against fighting climate change.

Richard Poplak reviews 12 Rules For Life by Jordan B Peterson, ‘the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now’. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos Jordan B Peterson Allen Lane, 2018 This is just the fucking worst. Imagine a self-help book written by the Dart

Thankfully, since his meteoric rise to the public consciousness five-odd years ago, Jordan Peterson doesn’t get nearly as much mainstream media attention as he used to. The glowing write-ups and…

Dr Gabor Mate talks about what he sees when he reads Dr Jordan Peterson.

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It is imperative to ask why and how this obscure Canadian academic, who insists that gender and class hierarchies are ordained by nature and validated by science, has suddenly come to be hailed as the West’s most influential public intellectual. Peterson rails against “softness,” arguing that men have been “pushed too hard to feminize,” like other hyper-masculinist thinkers before him who saw compassion as a vice and urged insecure men to harden their hearts against the weak (women and minorities) on the grounds that the latter were biologically and culturally inferior. Peterson’s ageless insights are, in fact, a typical, if not archetypal, product of our own times: right-wing pieties seductively mythologized for our current lost generations.

Lux Copp's answer: I live in the same province as Dr. Jordan Peterson: Ontario, Canada. I’m familiar with the context of the debates and I’ve been to his talks. I support Peterson and anyone’s right not to be required by law to use any certain words. I agree with a lot of the points he has brough...

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1/5: I see many five-star reviews here, so here is the contrarian position. I’m giving this one star for a couple of reasons. 1. The content does not justify the length of the book. When you strip away the pseudo-profundity and verbosity, you’re left with rather simple ideas you could find in any self-help book or discover on your own. Rule # 1, for instance, essentially states that females prefer males with confidence and that success breeds confidence and further success. This is rather obvious without having to understand the evolutionary history of lobsters. 2. The introduction of the bo...

Jordan Peterson’s recent musings on what he calls “postmodern neomarxism” — enriched by hours of careful research on Wikipedia — are a reminder that when it comes to intellectuals, the reactionary right isn’t sending its best.

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Speaking on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Peterson claimed the climate was too complex to be modelled accurately, which was quickly shot down by scientists

Jordan Peterson’s popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape…