I have been thinking about that a lot and am not quite sure.
Part of it is his professorial manner combined with him validating far right ideas.
But his appeal to young men is an interesting puzzle.
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There is absolutely no puzzle. His appeal to young (white) men is obvious. Plays into power fantasies. Same goes for Ayn Rand.
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I agree. We haven't even touched on xenoestrogens yet, for example.
My main critique of pomo, identity politics etc is b/c to me they're tools of late capitalism.
Conviviality hard to monetize, thus constant atomization polarization etc. Keep people suspicious of each other.
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The hilarious thing is that postmodernists represent a very, very small portion of Peterson's critics or ideological opponents.
It's all grand narrative social activist stuff, identity politics, critiques of colonialism and capitalism and so on.
Nothing remotely pomo about it.
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I haven't seen a single interview w/him being questioned on capitalism.
It's been brought up briefly in his convos w/Russell Brand & Philip Dodd though in each case the questioner hadn't prepared anything in sufficient depth to get around JBP's minimal precision requirements.
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I meant his opponents, not him.
He keeps railing against his supposed pomo or neomarxist opponents. How many can you find?
Most of the hit pieces for example are from your typical liberal/neoliberal journos and such. These people are not Marxist. They're often not even lefties.
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So it's pure clickbait then. The critics you mention have no moral center. Angry people click more, etc.
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The hard and far right just call everything to their left “Cultural Marxism”, so Peterson does the same thing.
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Much of what he says seems prefigured in this documentary miniseries shown in Norway in 2010.
I don't think such could be shown on US TV
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Hjernevask (brainwash)
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Prefigured in what sense? Genuinely curious.
I remember Eia spends a lot of time questioning certain parts of the Norwegian political milieu that could certainly be characterized as pomo or marxist, but that is utterly alien to Canada or the US.
In the sense that many of the sociologists etc that he spoke too were in denial about biological gender differences.
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Yeah, that's Norway, where the moderate position is social democrat & a radical left Stalinist party gets as many votes as the local browncoats (oh no, extremist parity).
How does this relate to his native neolib Canada or the proto-facist US he uses as framing?
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