I know many people disagree with us and don't see the devotion and abdication of reason that is going on around him. Whether you agree or not, we're sincere and did not come to this concern lightly.
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I cannot measure. I just know that you can't criticise him like a normal person where others simply say 'I disagree with that.' Instead, dozens of people doing indepth apologism as if for religion and DMing me with personal accounts of how he brought them hope.
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I'm worried about a whole bundle of complex things including, primarily his epistemology (process of truth) & obscurantism in the style of postmodernism, the fervour and the oversimplified trad gender roles presented as wisdom.
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He calls it things like wisdom and truth. No, my concern is his epistemology, obscurantism, slipperiness, trad roles simplification & the fervour he inspires. I've threaded many times of aspects of this. I can't do it all again here.
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Oh for Gods sake, lighten up. The guy is smart, has real intellectual integrity and shines out like a shaft of bats piss in this dark, unenlightened media world. We put up with all sorts of constant rubbish. Please don’t undermine someone who is having a decent go.
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I disagree. That is allowed. I want to deal with postmodernism & he makes it harder.
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Fair enough. Interestingly, he was the first I came across who specifically linked PM to some of the more outlandish debate currently circulating. How then is he making it harder?
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He doesn't understand it, links it simplistically to Marxism and doesn't address the epistemological problems fully because he shares them.
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Brilliant essay. I imagine JP’s link to Marxism is less to its class theory and more to the crushing ideology as practiced. Be that as it may, you say he “doesn't address the epistemological problems fully because he shares them”. Could you explain further at some point?
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It looks like it could have been pulled from a PM guide book. Have you hit up JP with this directly?
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Helen, I have mulled over this perspective and I do believe there are some flaws. Twitter, as with many other parts of our online experience, is tribal, with or without the application of "care" to those tribes. Unwavering support is, on the surface, akin to that of a cult. 1/
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Peterson's fans are no different than the fans of any celebrity with an ideological pov (Rupaul comes to mind). If our measure of concern is based on who his followers are (men), then our critiques are based on the demographic the followers represent, not the behaviour itself. 2/
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I think it is different. I think it's this: From a talk I gave. That's why I'm more interested in it than in fan clubs. I think people need something like this but that we can root it more in objective truth & liberalism.pic.twitter.com/tbGkauyupg
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This is Rupaul as well Helen.
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Quite possibly but do you see why Peterson is of more interest to someone who talks about postmodernism, liberalism, gender relations and freedom of speech than Rupaul? It's not bias to address methods of ppl tackling the same issues as me rather than completely different ones.
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No, I get it, academically it makes sense. I just don't think the cult argument should be included because that's more cultural than academic.
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But I am arguing about culture. How these things are affecting culture. How and why Peterson is so popular in the current climate. What he is bringing to the polarisation. How we can fulfil the same needs without trad gender roles and pragmatic notions of truth.
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It'll be interesting to read. My suspicion is that people follow him bc they understand liberalism has failed but they don't know why. Attraction to pragmatism is a symptom of that failure, and like the MAGA crowd, people know it used to be better for them but they don't know why
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