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A long read for the younger folks, but this a really good read on the alt-right icon Jordan Peterson. I knew he was a hack, but didn’t understand why. He is intentionally vague and “not even wrong.” A family friend of mine was sucked into this garbage before I understand the guy, I wish I could’ve shared this article at the time!
Also, how does nitter work (the twitter viewer), does that preserve deleted tweets?
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Finally got around to reading this. Looks like comrade hakims takedown of peterson was mostly ripped from this, but this has a lot more emphasis on how baffling his popularity is, even from supposed western intellectuals.
This much should be obvious from even a cursory reading of him: If Jordan Peterson is the most influential intellectual in the Western world, the Western world has lost its damn mind. And since Jordan Peterson does indeed have a good claim to being the most influential intellectual in the Western world, we need to think seriously about what has gone wrong. What have we done to end up with this man? His success is our failure, and while it’s easy to scoff at him, it’s more important to inquire into how we got to this point. He is a symptom. He shows a culture bereft of ideas, a politics without inspiration or principle. Jordan Peterson may not be the intellectual we want. But he is probably the intellectual we deserve.