Can someone explain to me what this guy is/was about and if he's changed? I haven't followed him very closely, but I don't remember him being a complete and utter retard until recently. Starting out he seemed pretty reasonable if milquetoast: Opposing compelled speech wrt tranny pronouns, wrecking Cathy Newman in that interview, etc. But he's also some cock carousel rider's betabux and raised a whore daughter who fucked Andrew Tate. He succumbed to a benzo addiction at some point, and now he posts stupid tradcuck shit all the time. Am I missing something?
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He's a liberal psychologist who got popular for his basic life advice to fatherless young men ("clean your room"), wrote some books, and decided he needed to use his new international influence (and wealth) as a sort of controlled opposition for conservatives - arguing to allow the right-wing just enough free speech to act as a pressure valve and prevent the rise of dangerous far-right nationalists. (edit: see the video yoisi linked for proof)
After his addiction controversy he joined Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire to support Israel.
I don't hate him. Like Tim Pool he can be a good gateway drug to the Right. People should just be aware of what he is doing.
He helped me as a gateway to get off the liberal plantation. I found him at just the right time around 2018. Haven't listened to him in a long time though. I feel like I've outgrown him.
Have similar thoughts about him: a useful guide for a portion of my journey I've since moved beyond.
He's not a "leader" and anyone who thinks of him as such will be disappointed. But as a as a reasonably intelligent person who thinks some hetrodox things he can be useful for someone coming into this thing to say "hey this guy who's obviously pretty smart also thinks this thing is stupid; maybe I'm not crazy".
See also: Scott Alexander.
Which is still pretty damned useful: how many people here began their journey by asking "if they're lying about this inconsequential obvious thing, what else are they lying about?" That line of questioning is as much a snowball rolling down a hill as progressivism itself is.
And I think the other side realizes this, which is why they'll treat a Jordan Peterson or Scott Alexander the same as they do a Jared Taylor.
The first step in the Red Pill is listening to Jordan Peterson.
The next step is moving past him.
I appreciate his work in getting young men to snap out of the gynocentric mindset of today. However, to put it bluntly, he has outlived his usefulness, especially after his [benzo?] addiction crisis. He is not the same as he was before.
He is a useful "nudge" in this direction. The thing about anti-liberal/progressive opinion is once you start questioning it's difficult to control where you end up.
If you held a gun to my head and asked me "what was your first red pill on the media?" I would truthfully answer "the Jon Stewart Daily Show segments where he showed 20 different pundits use the exact same phrase on the Sunday morning politics shows" Obviously his goal in showing that was to make me a leftist, but by showing how the trick was done he lost control over how and where his audience applied the method.
And now that we're in bizarro-world 2004 where everything is flipped and the "weird" people are all on the right, an honest application of his methods today leads one to the opposite conclusion as he would have wanted then.
His Interview with Kathy Newman really struck me back then. I'd never heard someone so calmly and thoroughly dismantle feminism before. I was stuck in the left wing media bubble.
Now he reminds me of a cringe boomer uncle on twitter.
If you pattern recognize long enough, you end up in the same place as the rest of us.
How come that when a crow recognizes patterns, that's cool. But if we do it, it's oyvey?!