If the fascists really do win, Peterson will die in the second or third round of purges.
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Nah, I think he would be saved much like Wittgenstein. Too difficult to off him quietly. Problematic optics.
Unless you mean globally, in which case, yeah...
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He'll eventually burn out. I hope he returns to more academic lectures on a higher intellectual plane & has time to parse such issues as brought up here.
He's mentioned that in prep for upcoming debate w/Sam Harris, he's read *all* Harris's books. I wish I had that fortitude.
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I don’t have the fortitude to finish a Harris blog post.
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I hadn't read or heard much of Harris until his debate w/Chomsky a few years back. Noam wouldn't let Harris get beyond Bill Clinton's bombing of that pharma plant which supposedly led to deaths of 10k people b/c not getting their meds.
Harris seemed the epitome of the below.
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❝We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions.❞
—Ian Percy
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Chomsky eviscerated him. People who think they're smarter than Chomsky are always wrong when they go head to head with him. Always.
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My favorite thing about that exchange is that Chomsky employed Harris' own debating technique, but without pretending to be "reasonable", and Harris was utterly outraged by it.
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If you are as nauseated by Harris as I am, you'd be doing yourself a favor.
Publishing that exchange was an amazing own goal.
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If I had Harris's side of that exchange, I wouldn't just delete the emails, I'd rip the hard drive out and nuke it from orbit.
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I would retire from public debate, forever.
But Harris doesn't seem to have much in the way of self-awareness.