Are you an accelerationist? If not do you not think Peterson is directionally correct? Good books have existed for a long time, and yet here we are. The inferential distance from normie directly to Maistre is vast. Wittgensteins ladder etc etc and so on *zizekianly rubs nose*
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Well I think Peterson in some ways adds to that distance, he certainly avoids any association with the right like the plague.
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I think normies even considering "meaning" is a huge step in the right direction. People with a stronger grounding may consider him a noob, but when the median level of religiosity in the half educated is 0 (or negative, contempt) changing the frame is a win
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If he is merely the doorman inviting people into real learning, rather than continuing on to the bar that lets you play video games, that is a great service to society
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In what way do you believe peterson adds to the inferential distance between bugmen and eudaimonia?
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That's a good observation, the median of your average millennial's spiritual impulse is 0 to 3, which is the spectrum between laughable fedoraism and smoking weed while looking at pics of galaxies lol
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I think JBP adds to the distance in that he is invested in keeping people in the stasis of slightly older liberalism and within the psychological instead of the metaphysical. He waffles all over the place in people asking him about God,and that's partially because of the audience
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He is dealing with. My problem is that he just wants people to cope with modernity and like all boomers, he's too invested in the system to truly contemplate what living with a metaphysical purpose is, he abhors all political or existential solutions that challenges the norm.
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Hopefully in our generation the farce of free debate and marketplace of ideas will be axed and seen for the worthless absurdity that it is.
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But that's gonna make Dave Rubin cry and say "guys, guys, guys!"
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If I had to make the comparison, JP is more or less like Sargon.
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He's Sargon with less hostility towards religion and that's pretty much it.
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That’s harsh, comparing peterson to somebody as lowly as sargon
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