Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Jordan Peterson Weeps Over Climate Activism" video.

I don't think JBP is arguing to keep things as shitty as they are, I suspect he's having a bucket of trouble dealing with the effects of the almost complete failure of his generation to do anything constructive about climate change. What David doesn't say is this was at the Hoover Institution which is a right wing think tank based at Stanford University. I've watched the first few minutes and found out where David's excerpt comes from which is near the end. Right at the start Peterson crapped on about how Justin Trudeau's a liar with a cleverly crafted public persona. The hypocrisy of that is JBP is also somebody with a cleverly crafted public persona. I don't know if he's lied like a politician but he's certainly overstepped his area of expertise and been wrong. He's doing this talk at a right wing think tank lambasting the left and yet claims not to be a right winger. But then he's so FKD up these days I think he's still suffering after affects from his drug issue. I do find that sad because before that he was a decent psychology professor. He might have been crap at politics, the climate and technology but he knew his stuff on psychology.
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@s0515033 I don't know if we are ultimately doomed as in its 100% going to happen, but I'd agree that if we don't change its effectively 100%. And that's the common thread through everything right now. No matter which way people vote NOTHING CHANGES and its not just the environment its everything. I just watched this lecture about US foreign policy and the guy explains it perfectly and he explains why Ukraine has happened and then he said "this is why Trump is president." WTF??? Then I realised it was from November 2017. Yeah the Ukraine thing has happened just like climate policy the political establishment are NOT listening and won't do anything to change. They are so wrapped up in their little bubble world of pandering to billionaires that they can't hear us. So I see your point, but I don't think we are doomed YET, but fark the task is hard.
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@s0515033 You're right on all fronts. The single biggest problem are the billionaires who have lost grip with reality. I'm an engineer and spent most of my COVID time looking at economics, because I am always up against them and there standard "Who's going to pay for that?" or "How will you pay for that?" What I found is that most economists think they know what an economy is but actually don't. The best source of WTF is going on is a guy named Mark Blyth (Brown U.). He's a political economist not a political scientist or a straight economist. Political Economy is the study of how politics and economics interact. Instead of treating them as separate subjects to theorise about they look interact in the real world and how it works. Mark Blyth was one of the very few people who predicted both Trump and Brexit and he said it wasn't hard if you just looked at what was going on. It sounds so damn simple and practical, especially to an engineer like me. I did aerospace engineering and we are trained to consider complex systems as conglomerates of sub-systems. We are trained to always consider the effects each subsystem has on all the others so that we don't do something that screws up the whole show. Here's an intro into Angrynomics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXJD5rE4omY If you can understand that we should have upgraded the economics computer after the 2008 GFC, instead of patch and you've made the first major step to understanding. Its like we are trying to play games designed for PS4/5 on a PS 3 with an Xbox handset. Its slow, incompatible, crashes constantly and the store we got it from doesn't care BECAUSE HE GOT A BONUS.
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