The Jordan Peterson Thread

Speaking of, I uselessly clicked on a discussion he just uploaded between himself and Roger Scruton at the "Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism" (??). I didn't get very far, but it's slightly worth watching the very beginning for the unbelievable Oxbridge don caricature who gives the intro: https://youtu.be/oJ9JapLD5aQ

i think they're probably dudes who keep the papers of ralph cudworth and the like, a long tradition

very long

Apprehending the Transcendent

I can't get over how impeccable and specific that impression is, it's masterful

yeah I almost can't believe it's a fake

Jesus, I can't think of a worse double bill of academics than Peterson & Scruton.

Omg at the Burger King video

Sir Roger Scruton, makes me wince every time I see that.

yeah I almost can't believe it's a fake

― frogbs, Monday, December 17, 2018 1:47 PM (fifty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I got a minute in before I knew it was fake. Seriously incredible

yeah the key to someone being an ideal impression subject is that they're easy to do well but difficult to really *nail*, and JBP is in that sweet spot

Right, and I'd say the same about Trump. with both of them, you can do many "versions" but a definitive impression is very difficult. the only person that really nailed Trump was Anthony Atamanuik.

whyyy does he have a recurring op-ed in the National goddamn Post oh wait I guess that makes sense

oh god I only now have taken the time to listen to the Burger King video

excellent

I guess he gets to write his own headlines.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jordan-peterson-what-i-told-the-woman-whose-gloating-irked-me-beyond-intelligent-reticence

I can't even hateread it, it's so clumsy right out of the gate

the Burger King video should be pinned somewhere, at the top of this thread or maybe even on the ilx front-page. it's a work of genius

Jordan Peterson Announces Debate with Slavoj Zizek:
https://youtu.be/SrvhFA3hPWA

finally

the content we deserve

For some reason all I can picture is it looking like this scene. (NSFW)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_Kb5Qkj-4

lmao

No way that debate happens. Either JBP chickens out or Slavoj is too ill to travel.

or the debate goes ahead and they end up agreeing on the perniciousness of political correctness

It'll be awful if it happens - they don't actually have anything to say to each other.

They’re opposites. Zizek thinks in paradoxes. Peterson is extremely literal minded.

richard wolff has offered to debate peterson before, to no avail as yet, which would be a much more interesting proposition imo

this has more symmetry tho. woo-woo public intellectuals of the right and left

I was trying to explain Jordan Peterson and his meat diet to someone earlier today and I called him "Gwyneth Paltrow but for incels" and I feel like I've cracked a code

— Jessica Valenti (@JessicaValenti) February 25, 2019

He and Slavoj Zizek are going to debate or something. They deserve each other.

what is he the gwyneth paltrow of

or the something of for incels, take your pick

not the biggest zizek fan but they're hardly comparable offenders AFAICT

I like zizek

Gwyneth > Zizek > JP

Goes without saying. But zizek is still good too.

Gwynneth Paltrow’s pretty bad idk

i like zizek quite a bit but he probably does deserve to be in a debate with jordan peterson

So You Want to Be a Public Intellectual

that rewtweeted junk where Peterson’s daughter is helping shill their lifestyle by posting a bikini pic with the “wow eating all red meat killed my health, dad!” caption is waiting to be adapted into a family horror movie

it's very scary

I don't know Dad. It's been 14 months and I think I'm starting to see the scurvy and vitamin deficiencies creep in... @TheAtlantic pic.twitter.com/GMw6v6kwPh

— Mikhaila Peterson (@MikhailaAleksis) February 27, 2019

anyone willingly reading about JP deserves this exchange

there’s this weird fake conversational thing where she made a post, he responds with “you should explain” and she did that

it’s indistinguishable from informercial dialogue where they’re about to tell you what to buy

Mikhaila Peterson is the Jordan Peterson of Gwyneth Paltrow

Just me and Gwyneth. Spreading fake news everywhere! https://t.co/hT00uwWIo4 via @MailOnline

— Mikhaila Peterson (@MikhailaAleksis) December 4, 2018

The stench of her toilet must be unbelievable

Getting colon cancer to own the left

So psyched for this debate

Zizek will be a discursive mess and Peterson will be self righteous but stick to the talking points

but I hope he can properly flummox JP

maybe they will eat each other like in that svankmajer film

I can’t believe they already made a statue to commemorate Peterson vs. Zizek pic.twitter.com/jgbsaDYEkN

— L.L. Cool Bean (@glvno) March 2, 2019

Would prefer this to be a bare-knuckle bout tbh