| I'm sorry but your interpretation of Jordan Peterson is completely untrue. Jordan Peterson does an incredible work sanitizing his fundamentalist beliefs through a veneer of rationality. But once you start unpacking the layers of what at first seem to be logical conclusions flowing from one to the other to understand the foundations that lead to the rest of his belief system (rather than the abstract questions he asks), you find the typical moralistic, regressive point of view you find in most Christians. I understand and respect the value JP provides to lost lonely young men who are struggling to find purpose in a hostile online world. Raging with hormones, and finding it difficult to sympathise with women and minorities, and a world who tells them that they have privilege and they need to acknowledge and help others more. JP is as valuable to them as Religion is to a starving subsistence farmer in the middle ages who is abused by his feudal lord, and has no hope of a better life for himself or his family. Hope is important. But for the life of me I don't understand JP's appeal to the male HN crowd - wealthy, well-educated tech-savvy yuppies who have upward mobility, critical reasoning, and lots of leisure time. Jordan Peterson: * opposes same-sex marriage because it is "backed by cultural marxists" and represents "an assault on traditional modes of being" [1] * opposes same-sex adoption because "the nuclear family is the smallest vialbe human unit: mother, father, child, and if you fragment it below that you end up paying" [2] * does not believe that men and women can work together in the same workplace, and directly blames women for sexual harassment they endure if they utilize makeup and high heels because they're sexually provocative [3] * believes that it is impossible to produce Art without God [4] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jef2C4T1_A [2] https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1331507566388637698 [3] He doesn't say this that men and women shouldn't work together: He says "he doesn't know", and "we'll see" (if they can). But the second part he confirms directly to his interviewer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqn6YoMFiI0 [4] this and much more video links in this twitter thread https://twitter.com/zei_squirrel/status/1331505661817937921 |