Jordan Peterson rightfully targets postmodernism for its reliance on crazy empowerment myths, but he does it through the crosshairs of his own equally crazy empowerment myths. Still, Peterson's craziness - unlike that of his many critics in media/academia - at least seems sincere
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Whatever else he may say that is profound, this tweet alone is sufficient for me to hold him in suspicion (though it's not a one-off; he often allows mythology and mysticism to trespass into the realm of science).
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I think it's an intellectual hazard to weight a single tweet so heavily when so of his deeper material is freely available. His point regarding Godel is a deep one, and one that I've also made for over a decade now. No system escapes this truth. Science not only also bottoms...
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Any followers of peterson who see him as an arch-rationalist seem to simply misunderstand what he says. Not only is he not a rationalist, he doesn't really believe in the notion of objective truth at all. Any statement he says is "true" he really means "works practically"
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(of course, the question of whether working practically itself works practically is neither here nor there ^_^)
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