This indictment of Jordan Peterson from a friend & colleague is thoughtful, subtle, and disturbing
thestar.com/opinion/2018/0
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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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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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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 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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He takes issue on principle (allegedly) with people even conversing with Marxists (or people he calls Marxist, really), but goes all in on the metaphysics of Pepe?
I find he can't really live up to his own standards, especially when it comes to politics.