I am not pushing Peterson as some kind of monolithic voice of truth, my thread has to do with Wolff's and Martin's ignorance and dishonesty more than anything.
Now this: "Peterson doesn’t challenge this system; he encourages an acceptance of it. Those in the establishment must love him for distracting and bamboozling so many. Talk about being herded towards slavery and ultimate destruction!"
Peterson challenges the new forms of liberalism and academic leftism that IS very much part of the system! He does not encourage young people to embrace the corporatocracy and its Disney distractions! As for the establishment loving him, sure - this is possible, but more likely for his utility in exposing the depth of depravity and denial of the left and heating up the social wars.
"What are all Peterson’s millions of admirers going to do with all this new-found wisdom, sense of purpose and personal responsibility he’s impregnated them with? Create a bright new world of love for us all?"
Thank you for lending extra truth and weight to my argument about how the left shun wisdom and responsibility as "luxuries" that'll have to wait because there's an emergency to 'save the world'. The left are blind to the fact that it is precisely wisdom and responsibility that will save the world, and precisely the lack of it that led to the end of the world in the first place. And the implication in your beautiful little paragraph is that the left WILL create a bright new world of love for all with their stubborn defiance of wisdom and responsibility!
"Or are they just going to piss it all away by blaming some imaginary ‘left wing’ conspiracy against the soul and those too ‘weak’ to not pull themselves up by their bootstraps?"
Or are the left going to piss themselves away by blaming God, the world, society, capitalists, Patriachy, heteronormativity, and everything except themselves for their own miserable failures?
Peterson - for all his flaws and his omissions, councils precisely the opposite of what you claim. Don't blame, just look honestly inside yourself first, set your relations right, clean your room, and ... (ahem!) be the change you wish to see.
Ghandi . . . Christ . . . Both of which may have been fools, JP too . . . but you are the much bigger fool for so hysterically denying the valid criticisms of your lefty peer group mob! JP is only one of a growing chorus. My mother is another. I'm another one, and I've been doing it for 30 years.
And sorry, but Wolff is a pompous, sloganeering ideologue and that A. Martin interview amounted to nothing more than two spoiled brats indulging in a snaky, dishonest, ignorant smirk fest.
It's bad enough we have to disagree on essentials, but do you people have to have such lousy taste on top of it?
I don't know if this board has taken a downturn or if it's me that's changed, but this RAT is jumping ship.
Dan, unhook me! But c'mon, leave this post up purdy pleeze. People need a good laugh.