Anyone have thoughts on why passions run so high around Jordan Peterson? Seems to be an unusually polarizing figure.
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Replying to @KennethFolk
Have you heard what
@_michaelbrooks has to say about him? Basically, he offers advice to lost young men about money and sex. He puts forward a socially conservative worldview in which they deserve to be at the top of the social hierarchy. Many get offended when that's questioned2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
I agree with everything you've said except "in which they deserve to be at the top" which I think is a mischaracterization of JBP's views. I think he would claim that hierarchy is inevitable and the ones at the top have won some sort of competitive sorting game.
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That's an interesting distinction. I think that there's at least something very similar to the feeling that one deserves to be at the top, and the idea that based on one's personal qualities one has won or will win whatever competition happens to exist to get to the top
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Replying to @byline_dreamer @danlistensto and
And then the main question I'd ask is this: in his picture of things, to what extent are personal qualities the determinative factor of who wins the sorting game, as opposed to circumstances outside one's control, luck, inheritance, and so on?
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I've listened to him speak at length. My overwhelming impression is that he does NOT make the fundamental attribution error. His psychological training and clinical work has prevented him from making that mistake.
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Right, I don't disagree with this. I think that some of his audience might not pick up on it, though. My sense is that many people hear him saying "this is what you need to do" and (consciously or not) add in the assumption that if it "works," they deserve their rewards
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yes, that seems likely. he does seem to be authentically helpful for a lot of his audience though. one would hope that over time the message gets refined and his audience develops more introspection.
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