Good backgrounder. Would love a similar read on why his approach and content seems to engage so many right now.
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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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has been trying to engage with him on capitalism. E.g. some comments on it here: alexanderblum.net/2018/02/though
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Succinctly put, it is doubtful if we'll have the time to figure out if Marx was right about capital or not.
Earth, 2072. Ecological collapse has devastated the planet. Survivors live in shelters and artificially maintained corporate feudal microstates.
At long last, the economy collapses, the production of surplus capital having terminated with the death of the last human worker.
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