Comments by "" (@psychcowboy1) on "NBC News" channel.

Also, I respect people with the compassion and insight to propose solutions to make people's lives better. Outside of being a self-help guru, has JP ever offered a solution to anything?
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@richardlefaive1944 If he has helped people fix their problems great. I have no problem with that. The issue I have a problem with is on politics and science he is a complete charlatan, and flocks of people believe that they are smart because they think JP is smart. I have asked dozens of fans to produce anything insightful he has said anywhere, usually to blanks stares, annoyance, and occasionally some astounding revelation like 'clean your room'. I pulled a Sokal hoax to see if any fans would fall for it; 7 out of 8 did. Number 8 called it a ridiculous statement; kudos to him for getting the sham. JP fans are routinely DT fans, leading to the hypothesis of 'If you think JP is smart, are you a smart voter?' As to my own 'qualifications', I have a list of solutions to the world/US problems, more insightful that even Bernie. Today Trump called back planes that were going to bomb Iran. Probably the smartest thing he has done. Giving a medal of freedom to the economist loon Lafler, not so much.
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@richardlefaive1944 That JP is 100% wrong on the 'agreeableness negatively predicts success in the workplace", that 'violent crime has plummeted over the last 50 years', and that the 'most likely problem we will have in 100 years is too few people, rather than too many people' doesn't bother you? Comment on this if you want; brilliant or junk science -- "How are you going to orient yourself in the world. The post modernists have no answer to that. Without any attempt to grapple with the cognitive dissonance they default to this loose egalitarian Marxism. If they were concerned with coherence that would be a problem, but they are not concerned with coherence...the force that is driving the activism is the is mostly the post modernism rather than the neo Marxism." Thanks for the discussion.
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@richardlefaive1944 1. "Life is maximally experienced when lived in the narrow area between the edge of comfort and panic." I suppose this means that boring is not a maximal experience, people want excitement. Most 4th graders know that. 2. "That we are moved by and adsorb new ideas and values through stories. " We learn from stories, e.g. books? Ok, again 4th graders already know that. I answered your questions, now if you don't mind answer mine, A. the quote, B. 100% wrong on agreeableness, violent crime, and we will have less people and that will be a problem in 100 years. Thank you.
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@richardlefaive1944 JP: "Agreeableness negatively predicts success in the workplace." YOU: "It is JBP's field. He is pre-emininent in it. So I find it highly unlikely that he is wrong in this point." RESEARCH: Association for Psychological Science, 2014: Which Personality Traits Are Most Important to Employers? "Again, conscientiousness and agreeableness came out on top. In the analysis, conscientiousness was the trait most closely associated with overall job performance, with agreeableness coming in second." JP is 100% wrong, and the fact that he is pre-eminent in the field is even more damaging. He has studied it a lot I guess; he still doesn't get it.
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@richardlefaive1944 JP: "Violent crime rates have plummeted over the last 50 years. DATA:disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime 1970 Population - 203,235,298 Violent Crime - 738,820 2017 Population - 325,719,178 Violent Crime - 1,283,220 And you call him smart and pre-eminent? OK. I call him junk science wrapped in a sense of gyrating self importance. Do me a favor, go to his YT description and find anything smart he has said. Thx.
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@richardlefaive1944 So JP is smarter than the Association for Psychological Science also?
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At 6:40 JP says he doesn't have fans. It seems beyond ludicrous that he does not know that. He also says that what he says is complicated. Really? He has complicated ideas? Like where? He also apparently is denying that his fans don't stack up at the conservative end. Weird. Apparently JP thinks we have a problem and his ideas are resonating. I wonder what the problem is and what his solution is? Apparently he thinks we are under threat from chaos. I wonder where this chaos is coming from.
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Was Peterson smart in this interview? Can you point to where?
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Do these seem reasonable and JP getting on top of the argument: "How are you going to orient yourself in the world. The post modernists have no answer to that. Without any attempt to grapple with the cognitive dissonance they default to this loose egalitarian Marxism. If they were concerned with coherence that would be a problem, but they are not concerned with coherence...the force that is driving the activism is the is mostly the post modernism rather than the neo Marxism." This guy has a nice vocabulary, but does he ever have a point? Still waiting for it. 'The ignorant Left says you can place the responsibility for hierarchy and inequality at the feet of western civilization and capitalism...that is unbelievably wrong.' Challenge to any JP lover: What exactly does JP mean here? That capitalism doesn't create inequality? Then he says 'The problem with hierarchy is that it produces inequality.' Help me out here. Didn't he just agree with what he said was unbelievably wrong? Jordan thinks he can understand society and government duty to either regulate greed or not regulate greed by reading a paper about lobsters? Nice job Jordan. JP - 'The Left is not serious about inequality'. Did you get that from your lobster book also? "When you're in that place of where you're facing things courageously and you're speaking the truth... you are imbued with a sense of fundamental meaning, and that meaning is the antidote to the catastrophe of life." Wow, that is some serious intellectualism.
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@inkredibl Read the Ian Burns paper identifying that the JP lobster paper is JP grappling an imaginary foe in his head he labels as the ignorant Left...pure strawman to the glee of his gullible fans. Capitalism is a reason that we have inequality. He is 100% wrong on that. And no one is saying that animals do not have hierarchies, we all knew that before his 'Hey I read this lobster paper and I found something cool I can make millions on speaking tours with.'
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@christopheryoder8292 Read the Ian Burns paper identifying that the JP lobster paper is JP grappling an imaginary foe in his head he labels as the ignorant Left...pure strawman to the glee of his gullible fans. Capitalism is a reason that we have inequality. He is 100% wrong on that. And no one is saying that animals do not have hierarchies, we all knew that before his 'Hey I read this lobster paper and I found something cool I can make millions on speaking tours with.'
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Peterson had an intelligent valid idea? What was it?
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Change my mind challenge. I bet no one who loves JP has any clue what he means here: 'The borders around what constitutes economics are not obvious. The equity doctrines are absolutely deadly.' Second change my mind challenge: point out the most smart insightful comment in this video you can find. I can't find one.
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You don't find someone annoying when they claim to be the only one who understands things, like in this one JP explaining who the Left and Right are, like he has it figured out and he has appointed himself to explain it to us?
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Why are the lifeguards hand paddling to make a rescue? Ever heard of a kayak paddle?
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Also JP has said that we are rapidly approaching ultimate genocide, but he is not too worried about what is happening in the US. These are of course categorically opposite statements. That he contradicts himself doesn't really surprise me actually. Compared to STEM fields, fake science fields like psychology generate thoughts like a ping pong ball randomly hitting neurons in a lotto machine. JP has also questioned whether we have a population problem; e.g. 'Who says we have a population problem?' Gee, I don't know JP -- Africa, India, China, oceans full of plastic, homelessness, water and food shortages. One fan said I am attacking JP fans because I know I would lose in an actual debate with him. I don't think so. Anytime, any place, any issue. How about it JP?
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@richardlefaive1944 Sure, I will figure out which vid that is from. In the meantime, take a shot at these, genius or charlatan: "How are you going to orient yourself in the world. The post modernists have no answer to that. Without any attempt to grapple with the cognitive dissonance they default to this loose egalitarian Marxism. If they were concerned with coherence that would be a problem, but they are not concerned with coherence...the force that is driving the activism is the is mostly the post modernism rather than the neo Marxism." This guy has a nice vocabulary, but does he ever have a point? Still waiting for it. 'The ignorant Left says you can place the responsibility for hierarchy and inequality at the feet of western civilization and capitalism...that is unbelievably wrong.' Challenge to any JP lover: What exactly does JP mean here? That capitalism doesn't create inequality? Then he says 'The problem with hierarchy is that it produces inequality.' Help me out here. Didn't he just agree with what he said was unbelievably wrong? Jordan thinks he can understand society and government duty to either regulate greed or not regulate greed by reading a paper about lobsters? Nice job Jordan. JP - 'The Left is not serious about inequality'. Did you get that from your lobster book also? "When you're in that place of where you're facing things courageously and you're speaking the truth... you are imbued with a sense of fundamental meaning, and that meaning is the antidote to the catastrophe of life." Wow. Did JP get that from Everything I learned in Kindergarten and then pasted some fancy words over it?
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@richardlefaive1944 This is super fancy words to state a very simple concept; a trademark of JP and charlatans as a matter of routine. His YT page description is similar over-indulgent vocabulary of 'the dance of nature and knowledge in the search in transcendental expression' and similar garbage. "When you're in that place of where you're facing things courageously and you're speaking the truth... you are imbued with a sense of fundamental meaning, and that meaning is the antidote to the catastrophe of life." Translation: When you are confident, that helps you succeed and understand your life. I learned that in kindergarten.
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"We have this idea by the ignorant Left that you can place the responsibility for hierarchy and inequality at the feet of West and capitalism, that is unbelievably wrong, hierarchy produces inequality and people stack up at zero, they can't get away from the bottom and unequal distribution, the Left say it is a unique side effect of Western civilization and capitalism, the lobsters have hierarchy an inequality, you don't blame something a third of a billion years old on capitalism." [Let's unpack this nonsense. A: Heads up Jordan. Everyone knows that hierarchies are a third of a billion years old, and no one is blaming them on capitalism and the West. B. The hierarchy of capitalism produces inequality where the poor stack up at the bottom but you can't blame that inequality on capitalism? Whoops.]
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