Jordan Peterson Was Always Cringe
You Fell For A Psy-Op.
A few months ago, I attended a coffee gathering with some like-minded men. The discussion turned to Dr. Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and university professor. My former student, a bright young fellow, simply remarked,
“I’ve never understood the appeal of Jordan Peterson. He takes simple ideas, and complicates them with fancy words.”
The young man was then pilloried by those around him, mostly Boomers and Millennials, who for their own reasons defend Peterson: the Boomers, because Peterson is a 1960s moderate, and they yearn to RETVRN to the 60s. By contrast, Peterson is a surrogate father for Millennials, who were themselves raised by single moms and weak dads. My ex-student, instead of arguing, wisely changed the topic.
Yet, recent events have shown him to be correct; Peterson is a weak man who obeys his base passions; a man who, though an expert in authoritarianism, cowered in the face of Covid tyranny. He also forsook his native Canada when things got tough, fell under the sway of drugs to cope with his wife’s cancer diagnosis, and, bribed by Zionists, cheered Israel’s slaughter of women and children. Peterson has no steadfast beliefs — he has abandoned every one of the 12 Rules For Life which he prescribes for others.
And he is not even that smart.
I mention this now, because the following clip of Peterson debating an atheist went viral.
The snippet itself is irrelevant. The host of this debate may have cornered Peterson into an unwinnable position. Perhaps the clip was deceitfully edited. It does not matter: the trance Peterson has woven over his followers has begun to wane.
I am glad to say that I was early to catch on to Peterson’s intellectual grift. By 2018, I realized that a man who worships Nietzsche (to the exclusion of other philosophers), makes The Bible into a Jungian wildwood, and writes openly about lustful dreams he had involving his close relatives… is likely mad. His academic ramblings are also nonsense:
Like language, truth is more like a process. And I would say it’s a process you actually embody rather than conceptualize abstractly… This is what I like about the existentialists. There’s a kind of emphasis on pragmatic truth… because they claim that your truth is something you should act out, not merely hold, because to act out is to believe in.”
—Jordan Peterson, Canadian Society For Academic Freedom’s 2017 AGM
Basically, if you’re a midwit, then Peterson comes across as an intellectual, because he sounds smart.
Peterson probably has good insights into psychology. I do not know, as that is not my field. Yet, when he ventures outside of medical science, as he frequently does, then he comes across as ignorant. In his 1999 Maps of Meaning, for example, he affirms without evidence that Christianity derives from gnosticism — a laughable position for those who understand early Church history. These errors would not be fatal, had Peterson any deeper insights, but other than teaching young men that they must be disciplined and purposeful (“Clean Your Room”), Peterson offers nothing.
I will admit, Peterson was useful for a few years. He opened the door for many young men to join the right-wing, although that was not his intention. I know of men who improved their personal lives thanks to Peterson’s work. Yet, the man is now past his best-buy date. It is time to remove him.
This is especially true because Peterson is no longer neutral: he has outed himself as an enemy of the right. During his recent appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Peterson scolded the “woke right,” hinting that Rogan should stop platforming comedian Dave Smith and podcaster Darryl Cooper. Peterson said that “antisemitic” right-wingers are “psychopathic” and suggested that they should be purged from conservative politics.
This is not the time to purge anyone from the right, except those who divide us in our fight against Leftism. The globohomo regime wants to wreck us and our families through perversion and the murder of white people. Its intent is genocidal; now is not the hour to worry about racist, antisemitic, or otherwise bigoted right-wingers. Who cares?
Since he is now a foe of the right, Peterson should be shunned, and he himself should withdraw from public life to revel in his ill-gotten wealth. He no longer serves as a battering ram against Leftist overlordship.
Thankfully, there are thinkers on the right, such as
, who are worthy of emulation. Haywood, a successful former lawyer and entrepreneur, has lessons to teach young men which go above and beyond Peterson’s tripe academic sermons. (There are many others, of course, but Haywood immediately comes to mind.)Still, Peterson serves as a useful case study. Some intellectuals, not strictly on the right, can still be valuable to conservatives at specific times. Glenn Greenwald, a homosexual journalist with a large conservative following, fits this role; despite his perverse proclivities, Greenwald has helped destroy neoconservatives, establishment leftists, and other odioius vermin. Yet, as the right gains ground, men like Greenwald must be cast aside in favour of capable, heterosexual family men.
(And, frankly, I suspect that Greenwald is more sincere than Peterson — but that does not matter.)
This may be Macchiavellian, but you know that I’m correct. Time will only tell whether the good guys win — but we won’t be taking Peterson with us to victory.
Never found Peterson compelling, aside from his willingness to fight DEI. As you wrote, he wraps basic ideas in multi syllabic words to make them seem important and novel.
Peterson has always been a foe of the right. He is an admirer of Marx and a card-carrying globalist whose mission is to move young men away from ethno-nationalism toward liberal centrism. The signs were there all along. It took him turning up the crazy to 11 for normies to notice.
This is why we keep losing. The enemy is subtle. You people need to stop talking so much and pay better attention.