Opinion: Jordan Peterson has always been a crank
JP was mentioned in another thread and I didn't want to de-rail that thread hence I created this one.
In that thread someone suggested that he produced insightful content in 2017, so I did a bit of browsing around and finally came to the conclusion that he's always been a bit of a nut.
I scan-read an article by The Guardian then decided that the best thing to do was to go straight to the source:
www.youtube.com
I sorted the videos by oldest first, and watched the first which mercifully is only 13 minutes long:
I didn't get far into it to be honest. The warning signs were "I'm an ex-atheist", "God created man and woman so everything divides into masculine and feminine and one needs the other to make a whole", "the patriarchy isn't a thing", "modern people don't think like this", and "women make men self-conscious" then I more or less gave up there. It comes across as a long ramble along the lines of "I found God, now I'm...
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In that thread someone suggested that he produced insightful content in 2017, so I did a bit of browsing around and finally came to the conclusion that he's always been a bit of a nut.
I scan-read an article by The Guardian then decided that the best thing to do was to go straight to the source:
Jordan B Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson is a Canadian professor of psychology, clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, best-selling author and host of the #1 Education Podcast, "The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast." Watch the entirety of Dr. Peterson's catalog on DailyWire+ This channel features videos from his...
I didn't get far into it to be honest. The warning signs were "I'm an ex-atheist", "God created man and woman so everything divides into masculine and feminine and one needs the other to make a whole", "the patriarchy isn't a thing", "modern people don't think like this", and "women make men self-conscious" then I more or less gave up there. It comes across as a long ramble along the lines of "I found God, now I'm...
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