The Jordan Peterson Thread

[Mithrandir]

@Mick

@MikeN1

When a person who achieves fame by scolding other people’s beliefs and telling them how to live turns out to be a screwed up drug addict, people tend to point that out.

Didn’t all this JP stuff originate around him saying he shouldn’t be forced to conform to other peoples belief system?

While we’re at it, I’m not sure if suffering from akathisia for prescribed medicine is equivalent to being a screwed up drug addict.

[TT]

@MikeN1

When a person who achieves fame by scolding other people’s beliefs and telling them how to live turns out to be a screwed up drug addict, people tend to point that out.

That’s not exactly how he achieved fame, the assumption by far leftists that he was a bigot helped him become globally famous, but he had a regular segment on TVO for years before that. Your ignorance here, and your lack of compassion, do not do you credit.

@Mithrandir

While we’re at it

I don’t know the details of JPs drug habit, but I do recall seeing this in the news lately, so I just hope everyone is being careful to have consistent opinions…

Meet Carl Hart: parent, Columbia professor – and heroin user

[Mithrandir]

@TT

JPs drug habit

I’m not sure if suffering from akathisia for prescribed medicine is equivalent to having a drug habit.

[TT]

@Mithrandir

I’m not sure if suffering from akathisia for prescribed medicine is equivalent to having a drug habit.

I’m going to think about that while I put on the coffee, get the sugar ready, and have a smoke.

[Mithrandir]

@TT

@Mithrandir

I’m not sure if suffering from akathisia for prescribed medicine is equivalent to having a drug habit.

I’m going to think about that while I put on the coffee, get the sugar ready, and have a smoke.

I’ll drink to that.

[MikeN1]

JP has a new self-help book out. A (mostly favourable) review:

Beyond Order by Jordan Peterson review – more rules for life

Ignore the subhead, which is typical Guardian moaning

[TT]

Seems like a fair review, not that I have read anything by JP nor do I plan to read this book. Here’s my favourite paragraph:

Peterson’s biggest failing as a writer is one he shares with many of his loudest critics: the absence of a sense of humour. He takes the agonising human predicament seriously – but boy does he also take it seriously . This is understandable, in light of what he’s endured; but the effect is to deny his readers another essential tool for coping with life. We need courage and love, but it also helps to find a way to laugh at the cosmic joke. It’s often been observed that Peterson has a religious attitude toward life. But he is, you might say, overly Protestant and insufficiently Jewish about the whole business; he has none of the wry forbearance in the face of pain of the man in the Henny Youngman joke, helped on to a stretcher after a car crash. Paramedic: “Are you comfortable?” The injured man, shrugging: “I make a living.”

Still better than Robin DiAngelo (who I’ve actually read skimmed), though thankfully one need not choose between the two!

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Also, brace yourself, Jordan Peterson articles are coming

[Andrew0409]

I was going to say perhaps the lack of sense of humor in public is due to the constant attacks he gets. But his lectures of before he became famous was about the same. Maybe he’s a bit more easy going in his personal life, but it’s a solid criticism of him that I can agree to.

[TT]

@Andrew0409

the lack of sense of humor

Steven Pinker (who has critics, but I have enjoyed his books as a linguist, the Blank Slate is most relevant to this thread), Richard Dawkins (Selfish Gene), and Daniel Kahneman (Thinking Fast and Slow) are academics who wrote funny books on interesting topics; these I have read and would recommend