posted on March 04, 2020 02:42 AM by
u/Snugglerific
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I mean, truly this sums it up, no need for much else:
While many of his ideas superficially resemble some standard social
(and natural) science concepts in many places, the overall ingredients
of his arguments are a mishmash of factoids mined from psychometrics,
Jungian psychoanalysis, evolutionary theory, and comparative mythology
forced through a politically conservative meat-grinder.
The amazing thing is that there are many people who live with this
layer of thinking going on and are reasonable, but in fact it
looks like Peterson is a psych professor who has allowed himself to
become obsessed with an unfounded, fad diet and additionally to become
obsessed with politics despite the fact that both of these have
monumental potential to drive his blatantly obvious bipolar into a
psychotic meltdown. And then on top of these risks he became addicted to
benzos. There’s research
about that being bad.
All of this would be “none of my business” but what is one to do with
a man whose entire approach is to psychoanalyze feminism as unscientific
and quasi-psychotic, and now he wants empathy for the sins of Western
medicine (tut tut, no “personal responsibility,” where are your
bootstraps?) and to ignore science himself such that he can invent a new
InfoWars diet?
i can’t believe this is a real quote
https://drjordanbpeterson.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/peterson7-768x277.png
edit: this is a good article, but i don’t really think it fits this
sub
edit2: i’m curious how you pronounce !Kung San
edit3: just finished it. I think this is something that is relevant
for the sub, as the last page of the article talks about the evolution
(lol) of the “philanthropy” versus “science”, which went from scientific
racism against egalitarians to eugenicists against anti-eugenicists to
the current day Steven Pinker crew and how Peterson’s work is another
continuation of the ‘battle.’
This concept can be further applied to the rationalists we see and
sneer at and so I advocate for this article remaining up. It should be
given the NSFW flair though.
re: the quote (which does an amazing job saying everything and nothing at the same time)
i think these people end up obsessed with how they interact with the media who really does have such a "Dove Body Wash Against Bulimia for the Superbowl Lean-In After Party" sensibility that they do actually offend people just by saying "women are female" or whatever.
but since "women are female" is a dog whistle for their own politics they ought to have the most basic awareness that the nationalizing of politics has converted absolutely every combination of three words or more into a dog whistle and stop pretending it's cHaOs MagIc
IDW stuff is usually allowed here but you're right, I'll NSFW it.
Being that the rationalists are heavily influenced by Pinker and co., there's a pretty direct connection, though. It would have been fairly tangential in that piece, but contemporary rationalism would probably not be possible without Dawkins and Dennett's development of universal Darwinism.
I mean, truly this sums it up, no need for much else:
The amazing thing is that there are many people who live with this layer of thinking going on and are reasonable, but in fact it looks like Peterson is a psych professor who has allowed himself to become obsessed with an unfounded, fad diet and additionally to become obsessed with politics despite the fact that both of these have monumental potential to drive his blatantly obvious bipolar into a psychotic meltdown. And then on top of these risks he became addicted to benzos. There’s research about that being bad.
All of this would be “none of my business” but what is one to do with a man whose entire approach is to psychoanalyze feminism as unscientific and quasi-psychotic, and now he wants empathy for the sins of Western medicine (tut tut, no “personal responsibility,” where are your bootstraps?) and to ignore science himself such that he can invent a new InfoWars diet?
i can’t believe this is a real quote https://drjordanbpeterson.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/peterson7-768x277.png
edit: this is a good article, but i don’t really think it fits this sub
edit2: i’m curious how you pronounce !Kung San
edit3: just finished it. I think this is something that is relevant for the sub, as the last page of the article talks about the evolution (lol) of the “philanthropy” versus “science”, which went from scientific racism against egalitarians to eugenicists against anti-eugenicists to the current day Steven Pinker crew and how Peterson’s work is another continuation of the ‘battle.’
This concept can be further applied to the rationalists we see and sneer at and so I advocate for this article remaining up. It should be given the NSFW flair though.
JBP is a nutjob. He’s a more dangerous (since he’s taken more seriously), right-wing Deepak Chopra.