Hopefully this makes him and his audience more radical.
I will say that you seem obsessed with calling him an expert in totalitarianism, when he's actually a clinical psychologist? Sure he talks about Weimar and the USSR a lot, but so do I? If you've read The Gulag Archipelago, you're as much an "expert".
I believe he himself has claimed that title several times in interviews/talks as a result of some deep study of totalitarian regimes he did when he was younger to better understand the 1940s; it's certainly not one I would confer.
I believe he himself has claimed that title several times in interviews/talks
Gonna need some sauce on that. Peterson was the second step back into radicalism for me and I'm rather sure I've only heard him call himself a clinical psychologist over and over and over and over. I haven't been following him closely for at least a year now, but, in the hundreds of hours that I've watched of him speak from 2015 to 2019 I cannot recall an instance where he did that.
In the lecture series that I've watched from UofT he was always explaining totalitarianism to get to a point about psychology. Could be wrong, happy to be wrong, but that doesn't add up to me yet.
Yeah I'm not going to search though videos looking for that. I believe it was an interview where he was mentioning that the West has a very clear idea of the limiting principle for right-wing ideology which is the Holocaust and Nazi Germany but has no corresponding limiting principle for left-wing ideology and as a result is unprepared for when the left has gone too far (which is obviously correct now that we're all living in that world).
Hopefully this makes him and his audience more radical.
I will say that you seem obsessed with calling him an expert in totalitarianism, when he's actually a clinical psychologist? Sure he talks about Weimar and the USSR a lot, but so do I? If you've read The Gulag Archipelago, you're as much an "expert".
I believe he himself has claimed that title several times in interviews/talks as a result of some deep study of totalitarian regimes he did when he was younger to better understand the 1940s; it's certainly not one I would confer.
Gonna need some sauce on that. Peterson was the second step back into radicalism for me and I'm rather sure I've only heard him call himself a clinical psychologist over and over and over and over. I haven't been following him closely for at least a year now, but, in the hundreds of hours that I've watched of him speak from 2015 to 2019 I cannot recall an instance where he did that.
In the lecture series that I've watched from UofT he was always explaining totalitarianism to get to a point about psychology. Could be wrong, happy to be wrong, but that doesn't add up to me yet.
Yeah I'm not going to search though videos looking for that. I believe it was an interview where he was mentioning that the West has a very clear idea of the limiting principle for right-wing ideology which is the Holocaust and Nazi Germany but has no corresponding limiting principle for left-wing ideology and as a result is unprepared for when the left has gone too far (which is obviously correct now that we're all living in that world).
That's fair, and when/if I do watch him in the future I'll listen more closely to how and what he ascribes to himself.
People are unfair. They expect too much from the man.
People crave leadership, then look for a moment of opportunity to kick the pedestal out from underneath their leaders.