His Twitter feed is a repository of bitter invective, demagoguery, and reactionary grievances. And his seeming need to view everything through the prism of his own personal culture war leads him to make some truly embarrassing proclamations, like when he recently retweeted a clip purporting to have originated out of China, featuring naked males confined in beds, each with a “milking” apparatus attached to them. Peterson quote-tweeted: “Such fun in unbelievable techno-nightmare CCP hell.
He was similar to them in their critiques of hierarchies of power and cultural sacred cows, but differed in that, whilst they could be au courant and hedonistic, he was pronouncedly more straight-laced; and whereas they had an equal disdain for the crass ignorance and hypocrisies of the right and the flakier aspects of the left, Peterson was by his own admission a traditionalist.
The parts of the work criticizing the state of young men had a massive catalyzing effect, becoming, for many young male adherents, a practical and welcome framing device through which to see and begin to alter their lives. Young men could look to Peterson, and quote him, as a figure within academia where, in his estimation, the worst excesses of woke deconstruction were being indulged in humanities faculties, and being propagated into the political and cultural mainstream without being contested. Such young men now had their academic firebrand.
As it happened, shortly after these appearances, Jordan Peterson was faced with a string of crises. After his wife Tammy was diagnosed with a rare form of kidney cancer, he was prescribed benzodiazepines to quell his anxiety, only to find himself dependent, and critically sick.
Unfortunately true
johangreg He isn't even a crank. He is the old racist grandpa the no one wants, or deserves
He comes across that way on Twitter. Listen to the podcast, and it's a completely different picture.
In his video that lead to his fame/infamy he offered to openly and publicly debate anyone on the veracity of the science around transgender science and medical knowledge. That offer still stands and not one single person has ever taken him up on the offer. That says it all
Just like the Canadian conservative leader who supports him.
This article wreaks of jealousy. It also wreaks of an author who is in dire need of a father figure.
Well the left pushed him to where he is. He spoke of conservatives and conservatism as a concept not as his identity but now he finds meaning, respect and adulation from the right and here he'll stay unless the right somehow makes it unbearable for him to stay.
Petersen was never an interesting or important public intellectual. He was always a grifter preaching grievance ideology to the incels.
Antagoniste_net He's pretty interesting if you are an incel or a fragile manchild who wants to think he's intelligent. If you're into anything of substance he becomes boring quickly.
Lol i love this illustration
shelterdoc Was never interesting or important. Not even briefly.
Controversial is the nicest thing I could say of him. His 15 minutes are up and the world will be a better place.
He was never interesting or important.
'The clinical psychologist and self-help guru was briefly an interesting and important public intellectual. Now he’s just a predictable and dull internet crank.' I wonder how NICHOLAS SHEPPARD would rate himself.?
Did it ever occur to you that Jordan Peterson doesn’t care what you, or others think about him? His not shrinking in the face of criticism is part of what makes him interesting.This is a good opportunity for his critics to simply stop watching or listening, if they can.
“ Independent. Intelligent. Influential.” If you were actually any of these things, you wouldn’t feel the need to make the assertions public.
maybe he could spice it up by saying something horrid about trans people
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Counterpoint: He was never interesting or important.
He's always been a boring pseudo intellectual.
Jordan is a compelling public speaker. That doesn't make anything he says today or has said in the past insightful or valid. Not to compare or anything but Hitler was a compelling public speaker, and look at where that got him
But his old material is still good. He’s prob had a longer run now than many other famous public intellectuals.
Is this the best the left can do now? Just cry when they realize they are fat and worthless? Maybe if you listened to Peterson you would actually have value
Haha. Guess he pissed you off.
I found some of his ideas interesting and I’m an old lady! Then he got right wing, weird and religious and completely lost me.
I can’t be bothered to read this. Was JP “briefly important” before/during/after his Russian drug coma?
Do not throw the baby out with the dirty bath water.
Right wing agent provocateur is unsustainable. The bitterness and hate wears on one.
I forgot he'd said that the 'Twitter Files' are “truly worse than Nixon’s Watergate.” That aged well, lol
This is the nicest thing your paper has ever said about him.
Isn’t the market saturated with internet cranks? Sheesh.
One sided analysis: just bashing, no balance, just poor “journalism”… basically everybody can write an opion about everything, just getting cloud 🤔
He’s a complete hack
DukeZer0 Damn that was a lot to write out instead of just copping to falling for the grift when you were younger. It's okay that you had cringe opinions in the past.
Jordan Petersen is still important. Slowly changes, not only he, has been fighting for will become reality.
Yet nobody respects any article written by the left, especially the Daily Beast. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes than click on any of your articles.
lmao he was never interesting, he just had a schtick as a Dr. Phil for neo-Nazis for a while in that he was important, it's because we're in a moment with a high level of white nationalist and male grievance being cultivated around the world
The fact that you ever found him interesting is your flaw, not his virtue.