The Jordan Peterson Thread

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Suck ya mudder, lobster shagger. https://t.co/HSFJgwA0fC

— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) July 17, 2018

JP has written the preface for the reissue of Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1049544/the-gulag-archipelago/9781784871512/

of course he has

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kMLrulP6Dxc/Uy-4bspUbYI/AAAAAAAAEVY/wY-SN8I1JSg/s1600/KERMIT+AND+TINA.jpg

On brand that he would want to write it. The question is why Penguin would publish.

gulags are officially good now

peterson's soviet fetish is... unsettling to me

maybe he should do The Man Without Qualities too

The ‘why’ is pretty clear - people doing the introductions are credited as co-authors, and come up as such, on Amazon.

damn glad i have an unsullied copy

gdi

re-evaluating my fav stereolab albums: mayonnaise eclipse and the groop played chaos dragon bachelor pad music pic.twitter.com/N60nLLO2aR

— ┬┴┬┴┤◕_◕) (@malteserubble) August 2, 2018

lol aren't they supposed to be socialists

marxists, to be exact

JP’s whole thing is literally “Marxism is evil and murderous ideology” and I don’t remember Laetitia ever having a Corgan goes on InfoWars moment so it’s really confusing.

She's involved with all that Living Marxism/Spiked lot who are basically Libertarian trolls.

Ditto the (former) singer with Pram (see ILM ad nauseum).

Imagining Peterson vs. Stereolab as a right vs. left thing is wrong and pointless. Sadier's lyrics contain plenty of sympathetic common ground with the likes of Peterson.

people keep saying this without examples

On the Stereolab thread I posted some. Can do more if you like.

She's involved with all that Living Marxism/Spiked lot who are basically Libertarian trolls.

at least i now know not to bother going to see her play here in the autumn

Ok, just for fun, how much do you REALLY know about Peterson & Stereolab? There's five quotes from each here:

1. "Those who do not understand yet say they believe are hypocrites. Anything which is beyond the limits of human reason is illusion."

2."Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete."

3. "Consult your resentment. It’s a revelatory emotion, for all its pathology."

4. "Morals are for the blind, not the critical mind."

5. "Nothing at all can be changed if evolution turns us to silence"

6. "When you have something to say, silence is a lie"

7. "Originally this set up was to serve society, now the roles have been reversed - they want society to serve the institutions"

8. "To be jealous is to conform."

9. "What's society based on? It's based on bluff."

10. "Speak the truth and see what happens"

well I only recognize the Stereolab lyrics tbh

cuz fuck if I'm gonna memorize any of this schmucks' "aphorisms" without a catchy melody behind them

Stereolab:
1. "Those who do not understand yet say they believe are hypocrites. Anything which is beyond the limits of human reason is illusion."
4. "Morals are for the blind, not the critical mind."
7. "Originally this set up was to serve society, now the roles have been reversed - they want society to serve the institutions"
9. "What's society based on? It's based on bluff."

idk what the 5th one is

Those are some pretty bad lyrics.

"To be jealous is to conform" tho i think they borrowed that from Barthes

no point being outraged at this point that most musicians (and especially the white indie variety) are complete fucking right wing middle class bellends! Just become a Tankie!

" most musicians (and especially the white indie variety) are complete fucking right wing middle class bellends"

that's certainly untrue

counterpoint

Just turned on SkyNews and who is there reviewing tomorrow's papers but Laetitia Sadier Brendan O'Neill, of course!

I am very sorry about this

https://i.imgur.com/lbusjT7.png

I still don't get this analogy and that's not Laetitia Sadier.

To NV, it's obviously up to you to skip that show, but you truly would be missing out.

it's from this http://www.self-titledmag.com/2010/11/24/the-self-titled-interview-laetitia-sadier-of-stereolab-monade/

(the analogy is that jordan peterson's daughter made a huge deal the other day about his diet of nothing but beef, which makes him the far-right opposite of morrissey)

I just don't get what that has to do with Mumford and Sons and Stereolab. May be in part because I know zero about Mumford and Sons.

mumford and sons posted a photo in the studio with jordan peterson, laetitia sadier tweeted pretty glowingly at him

it's a shitpost basically

On BBC24 right now, Stephen Sackur interviewing JP, bringing up his nonsense about lobsters...

SS: "Now, I'm no expert..."
JP: "But I am."

Also LOL at Sackur pointing out that, for someone who is concerned with men manning up, he seems awfully thin skinned and oversensitive when criticized - cut to JP looking thin skinned and oversensitive .

the decoder ring to JP is that piece by his former colleague imo

ah, that Sackur thing was on the World Service this afternoon but i made it to the off switch before Peterson came on. don't expect anything better from a programme called Hardtalk which is a fucking stupid title that only a cunt would want to be the host of

The Atlantic jumps in bed with Peterson

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/why-the-left-is-so-afraid-of-jordan-peterson/567110/

Well, Caitlin Flanagan is the female Jordan Peterson, so that makes perfect sense.

I can never figure out who "The Left" is anymore.

thx for the C Flanagan warning so I don't click on that.

It's a garbage article, but perhaps notable for being in a popular publication that sometimes flirts with liberal ideas.

lol does this just boil down to "why do people keep criticizing JP's regressive garbage ideas"

It's more like a content- and evidence-free screed about how the left is dying and millions of would-be liberals are now tuning in to Peterson, thereby creating a full on panic to delegitimize Peterson at all costs. It doesn't real give any reason why people like Peterson outside of vague hints about him being against identity politics.

It also features the spurious claim that Peterson is as much an enemy of the alt-right as he is of the left.

it's a pretty garbage publication

lol at 'thinking something is stupid' = being 'afraid' of it