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Media whores are discourse arsonists
Dec. 3rd, 2022 10:36 pmI just watched a doc, The Rise of Jordan Peterson, and realized that popular media personalities are effectively discourse arsonists (hinted at twice in the doc by JP's former professor and by his friend) who need bigger and bigger fires to get their kicks and their pay check: DJT, Mihai Neamtu, Jordan Peterson, Tucker Carlson, Bill Maher, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, etc.
The most ironic and tragic character is of course J P because he studied authoritarianism, dictators, demagogues, groupthink and he preaches about individual fulfillment and responsibility to groups of hundreds that usually parrot his memeable tropes (e.g. clean your room) and other regurgitated pop psychology, or worse, fit his often nebulous or overly abstract dictums to their preconceived ideological extremism. There is more irony in his asking people to clean their room and him saturating his with tchotchkes of his utterings and (I am convinced) ironical communist propaganda "art" that sadly seems to have seeped into his subconscious.
Of course there is some truth, well-intentioned defence of freedom of speech and even good personal advice in Jordan's musings, speeches and books, but they are so wrapped up in manufactured controversy and meanness or at a minimum callousness towards others (e.g. disdain and caricaturization of trans people, feminists, leftists) that is hard to separate the two and take the man seriously. Read David Brooks' 2018 defense in a New York Times oped and more importantly the top comments to his attempt.
Note: I mentioned JP before in July re: Men's Rights Movement.
The most ironic and tragic character is of course J P because he studied authoritarianism, dictators, demagogues, groupthink and he preaches about individual fulfillment and responsibility to groups of hundreds that usually parrot his memeable tropes (e.g. clean your room) and other regurgitated pop psychology, or worse, fit his often nebulous or overly abstract dictums to their preconceived ideological extremism. There is more irony in his asking people to clean their room and him saturating his with tchotchkes of his utterings and (I am convinced) ironical communist propaganda "art" that sadly seems to have seeped into his subconscious.
Of course there is some truth, well-intentioned defence of freedom of speech and even good personal advice in Jordan's musings, speeches and books, but they are so wrapped up in manufactured controversy and meanness or at a minimum callousness towards others (e.g. disdain and caricaturization of trans people, feminists, leftists) that is hard to separate the two and take the man seriously. Read David Brooks' 2018 defense in a New York Times oped and more importantly the top comments to his attempt.
Note: I mentioned JP before in July re: Men's Rights Movement.
