I love how Jordan Peterson vilifies postmodernism via (really bad) postmodern deconstruction of popular culture.
Shame on us for not coming up with that as parody before it manifested in real life.
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lot of people seem to think he's saying smart stuff. I confess I haven't done much of a dive, but at a few glances, does not look that way.
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He's a modernist reactionary appealing to the alt-right. The only reason there are people thinking he says smart stuff is because the bar is so low on the right.
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Hard disagree. There are -many- reasons why he gets that effect across, one of the most prominent being that he's very confident in being sort of a douche.
But there's a lot of cultural stuff going into this. He is riding a wave.
And he is eloquent, even talking out of his ass.
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Oh sure, I don't disagree. He's a product of social forces, not intellectual value. That's was my point.
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Not my only point, actually. I think people either A) overestimate him massively (I have one really obnoxious Facebook friend who thinks he is THE greatest living intellectual) or B) underestimate him or C) mischaracterize him.
He is a tabula rasa for people's imaginations ATM.
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IMO, Jordan Peterson ranges from occasionally brilliant on certain topics in psychology, through eminently reasonable on some aspects of personal responsibility, through completely talking out of his ass on many social issues to being a reactionary hack in some contexts.
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That's fairer. I'm not familiar with him in his area of expertise, just the shit that's thrust him into prominance.
He's hardly the first to stray into other fields with misplaced, arrogant confidence only to make a complete, dangerous, arse of himself.
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Mhm. I rank his political work with e.g. Pinker (except, I don't think Pinker is a very good psychologist...)
He is not competent to talk about most of the other topics - except, he's an old, smart guy and knows many interesting things. But he also believes a lot of BS. *shrug*
Pinker's stuff in Better Angels is really really questionable. Another person who has stepped outside his area of expertise.
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All his stuff is really questionable. That guy is the definition of a hack.