Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

  1. There are a handful of childhood/adolescent vaccines that are very safe and beneficial for most people, and the young were missing those and taking these instead. Disgrace.
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  2. They sound idiotic to me. Instead of hiring a real lawyer, they take this to FACEBOOK??
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  3. ​@GraceHarwood88 What is "behaving normally?" We've had women astronauts, men in nursing, girls whose best subject was math, boys whose favorite subject was French, . . . And???
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  4. Every solid European system uses knowledge-based education.
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  5.  @LawSavant  P. S. Your style is too pretentious. Work on that.
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  6.  @LawSavant  You seem to think I'm advocating for the cultural evolution I've described. Why?
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  7.  @LawSavant  I like your dog thumbnail.
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  8.  @LawSavant  Even better.
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  9. @Quinta Perfeita What is something good?
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  10. @Quinta Perfeita I wonder if one of my replies was shadowed. To take the example of marriage without children: when I was 18 or 19, I thought that was tragic. Today, almost all of the happy marriages I know are without children. It used to surprise me, and I thought those "must be" exceptions. Then I gained more life experience, and the numbers kept rising on one side only.
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  11.  @chet9128  "You get what you give?" I would take that deal every time.
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  12.  @mikesmith-nj1ij  Human nature is to be more radically adaptable than any other living species, and in particular, to be cognitively flexible. No other species has language or culture, and the range of ways of life human societies have created through time and space is astounding. If you start with your own way of life, you could never imagine how other peoples have lived and live now.
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  13. @grannyannie2948  You're the one who wrote some of the most vicious, embittered posts on this whole thread, no mean feat (pun intended). Hence you do sound as though you made mistakes a' plenty, and have taken to advising minor teens to do likewise.
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  14.  @jenniferwildflower4249  Exactly. Why does no one else know this? The attacks all miss the mark completely. I think they are just jealous of her because of her second husband, who sounds like an absolute peach.
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  15. Super analysis of Piaget. Really wow.
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  16.  @stuartmoore6310  I think the fact that we cannot trust other people's perceptions anymore is the most frightening thing. You could time stamp everything, and it would make no difference. What I find interesting is that it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and clear consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, everyone praises him. Why is that?
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  17. I self-funded Sorbonne, had to learn a third language to go. But that's misleading: under the leftist government in France at the time, all universities in France were tuition-free for everyone. A thousand a month to live meant having everything you needed.
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  18. Why is my post shadowed, but I keep getting notifications to additional replies in the thread? I'd rather have what La République Française gave to all qualified applicants alike (and my own work and savings) than to benefit from what the Gates Foundation decided to bestow upon me.
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  19. ​@dudebruh88 I recommend listening to someone who actually did it: David Goggins.
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  20. How so?
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  21. That's funny. I was just reading a book by Norman Doidge, a friend of Jordan Peterson's, who made the point about the extreme variability in what human beings find attractive in a mate, and how neuroplasticity in humans (something that is the product of our evolution, and has made us the most adaptive species on earth) has led to that remarkable variability. The book is called The Brain That Changes Itself. BTW, any man who doesn't see that Naomi Wolf really likes men, and hence expects good behavior form them, might want to stop pointing fingers and look in the mirror instead. If you don't know how to read women to that extent -- that you don't see that Wolf is a woman who likes men a lot -- then you might want to work on that for the sake of not missing out on a good thing the next time she crosses your path.
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  22. You mean no one knows that Hanson is a warmonger? Wow. He can give Hillary or Samantha Power a run for their money.
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  23. Their focus is on the most affluent and the students who are admitted to the Ivies. No one who has to work has these problems. They have real problems.
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  24. @haydenwayne3710  This is just another move in the one-upmanship game. They know what to say to get special consideration in school, at work, etc.
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  25. @haydenwayne3710  Here's an idea. She has a Yale Law degree. Why doesn't she represent some parents whose children have been harmed? I know they exist. I've represented severely handicapped children and children with cancer pro bono, with my little state school degree. We need to start seeing through all of these people. Don't buy her book. Buy your kids some books.
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  26. Good observation
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  27. It was interesting. I did not suffer much guilt. I suffered intense fear and isolation.
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  28. Those eight-figure bonuses had nothing to do with it . . . 😂
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  29. "You're going to pay me enough in one year to set me up for life, and after five years, my children and grandchildren will be set for life? No! No! I can't take that money! Taking it would be wrong!!!"
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  30. 💯
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  31. @arthur0227  And the men who defend him are unmanly. I'll say it. 😅
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  32. I don't mean this as advice, but as a sincere question (this means the answer could be "no"). Is it acceptable to teach children to refuse to answer various kinds of highly personal questions from other adults, including school? That's what my immigrant parents taught me. Questions of this nature are a violation of privacy. They have nothing to do with parental abuse or neglect, where teachers, therapists, and medical professionals are mandated reporters -- and rightly so. I'm raising this for purposes of discussion. Could this cause more problems than it solves? How do you avoid these invasive questions without attracting attention?
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  33. Sane and stone cold crazy -- there is also that. I'm "Euro-left" and this new mob active here is something I cannot recognize except as pathological. I have no explanation for the new insanity. Peterson just called it a toxic brew. He is being too kind.
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  34. We need to talk about self-mutilation. We do. Why is this happening?
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  35. Marx was a real pater familias. This is sheer bourgeois decadence. And they are convincing you of nonsense. "Marxist" is just the new code word. They are talking about the top 10%, which is their focus. It's natural. It's their crowd. It has nothing to do with my life -- probably not yours, either.
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  36. @Dean, Hanson is a relentless warmonger and Peterson makes many good points but gets stuck too often in ressentiment and surprising flashes of inexplicable anger -- which in 2023 is a sure moneymaker. I studied ancient Greek philosophy in Paris, BTW. I think I can evaluate these two cogently.
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  37. Hanson is a backward warmonger. His way will lead to more problems for the US, at least at this juncture. Apart from the sheer immorality of it! He is no different from the DNC in that regard. (Blech!!)
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  38.  @axhed  It might sound that way if you don't, like, read and stuff. (My room is messy. Books all over.)
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  39. What I find interesting is that it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, everyone praises him. Why is that? This was not a therapy session, by the way. Wolf is an immensely accomplished person and even went back to school late in life to complete her doctorate, at OXFORD. She resisted the COVID hysteria. And her husband is a veteran. Sounds to me like a truly successful life. If someone like that can still feel what it was like to be a vulnerable, idealistic, naive teen at Yale, in awe of all the famous people there who turned out to have feet of clay, then maybe that really is a big deal? When Dr. Peterson's wife became ill, he himself had a problem, with prescribed drugs. You don't hold that against him, do you? Then why this?
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  40.  @kwg5044  Gee, thanks. No snark from me, either. My late dad was a vet, too . . . WWII, ultimately with the 8th British Army (he was from Yugoslavia). When he got very old, and had to have a very long operation, some of the aftereffects of his wartime trauma resurfaced. I was an only, took care of him alone. The most recent close friend I've made was a Marine for 13 years, joined right after 9/11, then went to art school on the GI Bill. (He doesn't like debt. :) BTW, one thing I've always liked about Naomi Wolf is that she obviously likes men a lot.
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  41.  @3dmaster205  Men in general did not assault her, two specific men did. Some men (and probably some women as well) made it easier for those who did to do so. I see no general statements about general men.
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  42.  @3dmaster205  Sure, dear. Say. I have an idea. Turn off the sound and watch the (very beautiful, not that it matters) facial expressions and gestures. There you go.
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  43.  @benjaminz2523  All I can say to people like you is THANK GOD my father was an immigrant, very Mediterranean, had a gun, and was known to be capable of using it. In the area where I grew up, that kept me safe. My best friend in high school and my best friend in college were both raped. (The father of the latter thought the incidence of rape was greatly exaggerated, by the way.)
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  44.  @3dmaster205  She's not whining. You are.
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  45. So true.
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  46. The Market will never punish a pseudo-intellectual, nonsense-laden discourse like this one. Nor is it punishing identity politics, now is it, Dr. Peterson? Well then.
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  47. ​ @jeffdo9195 How do you know?
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  48. ​@MrCldean1828 The reason this is nonsense is that Harvard has SO much money, it can fully fund the education of thousands of needy students every decade. It won't.
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  49. @JayM928  He did compare it to the strict merit pool -- those who are not children of alumni, faculty, donors, or "special development" (which would be an actress, for example, or a musician --- which is a form of merit, and thus may not be comparable to legacies, etc.).
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  50. What I find interesting is that it was Naomi Wolf who demanded accountability and consequences for bad acts, and somehow she is getting dismissed. When Dr. Peterson points out how important accountability is, and brushes aside excuses, everyone praises him. Why is that? Wolf is an immensely accomplished person and even went back to school late in life to complete her doctorate, at OXFORD. She had already earned a fortune from her writing and raised two children. She did not do this for material reasons. She could have just, you know, bought a yacht or something. She also resisted the COVID hysteria and pushed back on the vaccine mandates. And her husband (second husband) is a veteran. Sounds to me like a truly successful life. If someone like that can still feel what it was like to be a vulnerable, idealistic, naive teen at Yale, in awe of all the famous people there who turned out to have feet of clay, then maybe that really is a big deal at 19? When Dr. Peterson's wife became ill, he himself had a problem, with prescribed drugs. You don't hold that against him, do you? Does he "wreak of being violated?" He has dissolved into tears many times since his ordeal. So what? But she can't even talk about what happened to her, and do so unemotionally? You're making the case for the people who insist that we live in a "rape culture."
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