He's a guy who seems to manufacture decent conclusions from bad premises. Problem is this reinforces your belief in those premises.
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Arriving at a sound conclusion does not mean the means by which you got there aren't compromised.
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The smarter you are, by the way, the easier it is to construct a story about the causes of something you only understand intuitively.
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We tend to conflate our conclusions with the process a lot; most things we know or believe, we arrived at by conjecture.
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Seeing yourself get things right over and over can leave you a lot more confident than you should be that you understand the process deeply.
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For example, I'd tend to agree with Peterson's analysis that a lot of colleges are compromised with strange ideological radicalism.
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But where he got the idea that this is explained by postmodernism or neomarxism (and people's affiliation therewith), I really don't see.
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Yet the man, having got something right, has convinced himself that this is some kind of deep, thorough understand of the subject. Weeeeird.
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In the sense of the "if I can't see it it can't exist/be relevant" thinking at least.
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I don't think I'd accuse Peterson of that. His problem seems to be thinking he has a functioning PARADIGM when he really only has a few loose ideas.
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Aye. I mean he's good in his field, but anything else he discusses ends up a two-dimensional caricature, or lacking depth.
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It's like the blind men and the elephant, except that the tree person claims that everyone else is "dead wrong".
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