Jordan Peterson is a goddamn ignoramus who shamelessly generates bogus pattern-matching associations among the random factoids floating around in his head like a stereotypical stoned freshman in a dorm roomhttps://twitter.com/hoskingc/status/1331550717149028355 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
As an aside (I didn't open my responses with this, as it could interpreted as an ad hominem attack): the complete certainty of your replies comes across as fragile vanity. Perhaps you should read a bit of Kahneman & Tversky. Start here, if I may suggest:https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/magazine/dont-blink-the-hazards-of-confidence.html …
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There are many topics on which I would be happy to admit uncertainty and humility but the utter worthlessness of Jordan Peterson's cult of personality is not one of them
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His literal claim to fame that allowed him to ascend into fame was him ranting through his ass about the bill c-16.
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I just know him as the guy who promotes the idea that self improvement begins with the smallest of changes.
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This is a meaningless, pointless thing to say that has been said hundreds of thousands of times before he said it
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Hey, look, it's in the Tao Te Ching, from the 4th fucking century BC, and it's been printed on literally billions of fortune cookie slips and T-shirts and throw pillows since thenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_journey_of_a_thousand_miles_begins_with_a_single_step …
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All his grift really is is taking these cliches from the self-help aisle of Barnes and Noble and trying to make them cool and badass and intellectual so teenage boys can read it and not feel like the "kind of person who read self-help books" (i.e. their moms)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @novicus
What’s wrong with that? Repackaging self help tips for a younger demographic? I don’t see how this makes him evil.
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Well, the most obvious way in which it makes him evil is that he then packaged it with some more specific, medically dangerous tips like eating an all-beef diet in order to lose weight and cure your depression
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Personally I don't think very highly of most self-help books, which have staggeringly low success rates at actually helping anyone long-term But the ones that cross over into magical thinking, like The Secret, I would say are evil, and Peterson is quite evil by that standard
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And that's before you get into how he goes from this bullshit "Clean your room" stuff to defending traditional gender roles, railing against "Cultural Marxism" and saying that respecting trans people is a plot to destroy freedom
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