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This indictment of Jordan Peterson from a friend & colleague is thoughtful, subtle, and disturbing thestar.com/opinion/2018/0

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read it, honestly it just sounds like he's a person who gets carried away and believes whatever he's carried with. Plus lots of charisma and energy.

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The critique seems even more interesting when read with Scott Alexander's review of his book, where he calls him a 'prophet' slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/26/boo Huh, just noticed there's that uncertainty reduction thing again

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It is consistent with my read of Peterson as someone who stumbled into fame and does not know how to handle it

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This is probably the take that best explains his wild fluctuations between brilliant little insights and absolute nonsense. He can't draw the line.

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He's acquired a much harder edge over just the last few months. I cut him some slack b/c: 1) he's not well, prone to depression & some autoimmune disorders. 2) I've had a shitload of grandiose ideas myself, usually unable to articulate them well.

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Meseems observations are now opinions which means endorsements because why else would one be making observations unless one were endorsing them.

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Yeah, well, me too. But cutting him some slack on a personal level has nothing to do with being alarmed by his prominence or his actions.

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I'm curious as to what you find so alarming. Certainly there are far worse voices with perhaps somewhat of a similar audience, in that sense he seems to me a moderating influence. And some of the hit pieces have been ridiculous.

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I agree with the latter 100%, but I don't agree with the former at all. He's buddies with Ben Shapiro, Molyneux and all the other bottom feeders out there. He doesn't do what he wants leftists to do and distance himself from the loonies - he embraces them. Moderating? Nah.

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I disagree with people calling Peterson fascist, though. I think he's a bit hapless - having trouble scaling his understanding of ethics, perhaps. I've agreed with him on many things and still do, but I see his political influence in the same vein as e.g. the behaviorists.

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Peterson is not A fascist but I submit that his impact is fascist: he legitimates essentialist crap about hierarchy and gender roles, hard right numbskulls like Molyneux, sloppy evopsych arguments, wooly notions of heroism, et cetera

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I dunno about Shapiro, his voice alone deters me wishing to hear more, but yeah Molyneux is disgusting. otoh one could plausibly justify the convo between JBP & Molyneux as attempt to moderate the latter's listeners. In any event I haven't seen any 'embrace' beyond that one convo

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One of the main reasons I unfollowed his Twitter, aside from the occasional Navy Seal copypasta rant at some critic of his, was his frequent retweeting of Shapiro, Rubin et al. Oh, and some straight shilling for Monsanto and stuff.