The Jordan Peterson Thread

i suspect macdonald is also being a little tongue-in-cheek

Talking of Derek Bailey has this uncanny resemblance ever been point out before?

http://www.legana.org/e-newz/images/2014/08aug2014/2014aug31/great-grumpy-old-man.jpg

I don't doubt that those schools are expensive but lol @ citing elite educational credentials that consist of getting kicked out of, failing, or dropping out of a bunch of expensive schools.

If Simon Langton Grammar School is a grammar school, then there's no fees? I can't pretend to understand the English education system though.

grammar schools that are also part boarding school charge fees for boarding apparently: https://ngsa.org.uk/faqs.php

but i don't think this applies here -- it seems to be a normal grammar school with slightly up-itself trappings ("houses").

e.g. Ian MacDonald, NOT then editor of NME, was quoted in 1975 to have misdescribed the school as etc

We had houses at my bog standard comp.!

In this introduction milo says that peterson was correct to describe him as a “trickster figure” who emerges in “times of crisis.” Kinda weird to think of oneself as an archetype generated by the zeitgeist, much less a symptom of social disorder.

I get why he was flattered by it but still

jordan peterson's take on burger king pic.twitter.com/CtslgvVNNC

— ☀️👀 (@zei_nabq) December 16, 2018

That is an excellent impression

Unreal

I lost it when he brought up Solzhenitsyn

very good

A true philosopher king in the grand Platonic tradition.

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