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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capitalism is a great way of doing things, but it explicitly lacks the ability to self-regulate (despite what libertarians think), and if it "wins" by getting rid of or buying up those alternatives which do regulate it, it destroys its own ability to survive.
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It can continue by burning off population. JBP's appeal to men seems simple: men are useless except for war or heavy construction. Women perhaps less likely to strike (at least violently).
Fredrick Jameson says if you want socialism, join the army. He wants everyone in the army.
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Men are not useless, though. Not even remotely.
We have stamina, emotional resilience and a number of other things far in excess of women (yes, on average).
There is no shortage of onerous tasks outside of war or construction that men are well-adapted to. It's a bait-&-switch.
Instead of engaging with the fact that we have no idea how to socialize men to take responsibility for their lives in a healthy, positive way, he pivots...
... onto the notion that it is a lot of Very Traditional and Definitely Essential values that's causing the problem.
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Did I miss something? JBP pushes the message that pairing up men w/women is the way to socialize men. Otherwise men would just make constant war on each other.
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Not sure that we have more emotional resilience than women, or stamina. It's really a definitional question. Women last longer in bad circumstances than men do.
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Fair to you. My position is not that men are inherently physiologically superior, but that we are better adapted to certain tasks (and risk less of our capacity to bear children by incurring harm).
Dirty jobs are ours to take, so that women can choose freely if they want them.
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