Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Jordan Peterson Critique | Philosophical Genius?" video.

I'm a lawyer, and have read the books Peterson claims to rely on. I don't agree with his viewpoints, I don't find them original in the least, and can easily criticize him point by point. He slips in unsupported opinions all the time, and tries to make it look as though he has supported them scientifically. He is just pandering. This critique is too generous. I feel for him as a person because he and his family have had to struggle with health issues that are well beyond what most people have, and they are not to blame for it. He feels they need money because of these struggles, and that is why he is doing what he's doing. He's riding this wave. I could never do it, but maybe I should be more assertive.
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THIS. The man needs money. I don't like his views, but I can't help feeling for him as a person. His family was dealt a bad hand through no fault of their own. Maybe I'm too generous, considering.
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Dana Chapin You're right, but his daughter has had issues from a young age, and one of his neices (or cousins, of that generation) died from something similar. As ssp said, though, a lot of self-dramatizing for sure.
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@sspbrazil Love Gabor Mate.
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It's called making money in the new media.
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@sspbrazil I do see through what he's doing, but they have real medical problems as well. What is more disconcerting is how new media grifting has become normal. You wonder who makes an honest living, and you wonder why any young person would want to.
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He frankly doesn't know more than I do. I've seen this combination of Nietzsche and Jung recycled before, and it always draws in young men. This is not new. His use of the new media is new. He also knows how to manipulate people into believing they are not sufficiently intelligent to criticize him. Always beware of that move. I saw his website a few years ago, and he recommended a number of original texts. I had read them all -- apart from his own book. It's not that tough. Your intuition is correct -- he is often illogical. He can make people believe he has supported his point with evidence and sound argument, when he hasn't. He said a bunch of smart but unrelated stuff.
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@xxxstar90dustxxxr I can't believe I wrote this months ago and just happened upon it again. Yes, Peterson presents the amalgam of Nietzsche and Jung that is recycled every two or three decades, and I'm not impressed at all. He routinely misrepresents views he disagrees with, in the most tendentious way. I feel more for him as a person, because I've come to feel more and more sorry for him. I don't see him as a chronic complainer but as a person who has genuinely suffered. As for his videos, there is only one I have ever seen that is valuable, and it was where he did an interview on creativity at a major art museum in Canada. It was genuinely good. It was also one where he somehow managed to refrain from inserting his political opinions, except to say that educators need to be more sensitive -- not indulgent, but sensitive -- to creative children's needs. I was shocked. Laughing!
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How could you possibly know that? You know Einstein's theories are now studied by seniors and grad students in physics, don't you? As are Kant's theories by philosophy students, etc., and Cantor's by mathematics students. I think you have a skewed picture of "intelligence." It is something you can build, if you work hard.
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@sspbrazil I can't disagree, TBH. You may have called it perfectly.
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