Jordan Peterson is making it harder and harder to defend him.
Don't get me wrong, I think some of his self help stuff was pretty helpful for many people, so he probably is still a net positive...but it's getting harder and harder to stand his terrible takes and his pseudointellectual word salad nonsense.
"anonymous cowardly troll demons" and "sadistic Machiavellian psychopaths and narcissists"...I mean, really?
Jordan Peterson is an idiot, but an idiot who was in the right place at the right time, and who helped a lot of people by doing the very bare minimum and being a male role model...not even a perfect one, but one who at least existed.
So, yeah, I'm not on the JBP hate train like a lot of people but, damn, he's wrong on a lot of stuff. And the fact that he's helped a lot of people really says more about the state of our current society than it does about him.
Thankfully, he doesn't need to be defended, and I say that as someone who is more pro-JBP than most here.
Just take his good ideas and pass them along. Shit, take credit for them if you want. JBP certainly doesn't have a monopoly on observing the world. I hope he comes around again, but I've metaphorically met too many heroes in the last decade to waste any time hanging around to find out.
Jordan Peterson is making it harder and harder to defend him.
Don't get me wrong, I think some of his self help stuff was pretty helpful for many people, so he probably is still a net positive...but it's getting harder and harder to stand his terrible takes and his pseudointellectual word salad nonsense.
"anonymous cowardly troll demons" and "sadistic Machiavellian psychopaths and narcissists"...I mean, really?
Jordan Peterson is an idiot, but an idiot who was in the right place at the right time, and who helped a lot of people by doing the very bare minimum and being a male role model...not even a perfect one, but one who at least existed.
So, yeah, I'm not on the JBP hate train like a lot of people but, damn, he's wrong on a lot of stuff. And the fact that he's helped a lot of people really says more about the state of our current society than it does about him.
Thankfully, he doesn't need to be defended, and I say that as someone who is more pro-JBP than most here.
Just take his good ideas and pass them along. Shit, take credit for them if you want. JBP certainly doesn't have a monopoly on observing the world. I hope he comes around again, but I've metaphorically met too many heroes in the last decade to waste any time hanging around to find out.