Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Joe Rogan Experience #1556 - Glenn Greenwald" video.

56:13 THANK YOU JOE ROGAN (Now we know why the Russiagate nonsense was so important to push and push.)
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Love how you said that.
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@KeefWard Yes! Plus they clearly had fun. Really great.
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@rodrigosimoes9284 No, Stacey is correct. Listen to Mate, Greenwald, Hedges, Blumenthal, Scahill, Norton, Taibbi, Halper, even Wolff, etc., etc., for a while. Of course the current DNC is now right of center, compared with these types of parties in other developed countries, including the English-speaking world -- and compared to where the DNC itself was before Reagan/Thatcher.
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@nilnil7325 They are liberal in the British sense: neoliberal corporatists.
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@rodrigosimoes9284 Because the whole spectrum has shifted to the right. Eisenhower was to the left of Biden.
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@johniekemp The new journalistic "standard" is that if it makes money, it's true. Hey, people have mortgages.
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@ellea3344 Thank you, Stacey.
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The Clintons and Trump normalized a LOT of things we never accepted before. Now Hunter's mental state, and Joe's, are no big deal . . . Lying? It's what you do. Nevermind their corruption. All normal, now. "Everybody does it."
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@JD-pp3ml No he isn't. Greenwald is a civil rights lawyer. Trump is as volatile as Caligula was. If he can be persuaded to pardon Snowden and Assange, good! They could both make a home in a third country.
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@rodrigosimoes9284 Then I don't care about your opinions, either. No worries.
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It's all about COVID. It is a referendum on COVID. If the public does not care about whether Biden is compromised, and if the corporate oligarchs are heavily invested in China and want smooth relations with China, Biden can't be "blackmailed." Nor will anyone need to blackmail him. Easier to have someone as figurehead who wants what you want.
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Both Rogan and Greenwald think Biden is cognitively impaired. So, I wonder who will really be the President? Not Biden.
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@dnbjedi Well, read the critiques of Jung. The notion of archetypes is too strong a hypothesis. There is ZERO reason to think you need to believe in such things to obtain ethical guidance in any sense: either because they embody ethical truths in some way, or because they are a useful fiction, to help you set up a worthy goal for yourself, a North Star to orient your life. If you read the Socratic dialogues of Plato and Kant's work on ethics, this stuff would not impress you. Kant was very deeply Christian, AND saw the need to put ethics on an entirely nonreligious foundation. If you like archetypes, read Robert Greene for your entertainment instead. And anyway, which archetypes have staying power? This stuff doesn't speak to me and never did. I don't come from the same folk tradition as Peterson. The ethical truths we actually have in common, as people, are far less "fancy."
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@dnbjedi Wow, really? Yeah, come to think of it, I don't have that many friends who have ever read this stuff. After this insane pandemic social isolation, I really feel a need to meet more people who I have more in common with. :)
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@dnbjedi Start with Apology and Gorgias. Really eye-opening. It can be hard to get into Plato's dialogues, but once you do, super rewarding and entertaining. Gorgias is so contemporary it will give you chills.
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35:07 and 37:50 MUST WATCH and re-watch.
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What's your basis for saying that? Give us some time stamps.
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@user-gj7tc6gt2p Whoever wins, we get a "non-neurotypical president" for four more years. Some of the best-known pictures of kids in cages are from the Obama/Biden administration. I thought everyone knew that by now. If the DNC regarded Trump as an existential threat (and I agree he is) why didn't they start working in November 2016 to be absolutely certain to defeat him now? Both parties are acting as though this were an experiment to see just how far they can push us. I've never seen anything like it. If Biden wins, someone else will actually be president, like during a large part of Reagan's two terms. I wonder who it will be? Whoever it is, he is unlikely to be worse than Trump, but I support anyone, like Joe Rogan, who speaks out again this whole picture. It is nonsense.
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NICE questions from Joe Rogan. So happy for him as well. This is a scoop!
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Astounding, isn't it?
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Peterson slips in ideology and pseudo-facts that are outright false or misleading, often in a sinister way, but I feel for him as a person. He should have known better than to become addicted to benzodiazepines, but both he and his family have suffered from odd, debilitating illnesses, and he does have it hard -- objectively. He's not just whining. I understand why he does what he does to make money, but know that is why he's doing it. FOR THE MONEY. An amalgam of Nietzsche and Jung gets recycled every generation or two. He made it more popular by making it darker, strangely enough.
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@doilookwasted2u What do you know what someone else will write? Speak for yourself. "Oh I get it. You're an addict, too. That's why you defend Peterson, and excuse and exaggerate other people's drug use." -- That's how your jeering sounds. If a person is a hypocrite about their drug use, that happens to be relevant in evaluating the value of their advice. Not determinative, but relevant. (Too bad about your inability to write a book, by the way. Two can play your game.)
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@dnbjedi Archetypes greatly violate Occam's Razor. I have seen a foundation for ethics laid in a much more compelling way, without making such strong assumptions about where they come from or what basis they need to have in any "collective unconscious." So I reject the elaborate story. Kant, for example, can explain the foundations of ethics in a way that has nothing to do with archetypes whatsoever -- and he understands why he should. If someone says to you, "those stories do not speak to me, they leave me cold," what will you say in response? People who believe in hierarchies will say, or insinuate, that they are above the "nonbeliever" in the hierarchy, and that the hierarchy is real. Anyone who disagrees, disagrees because he has a "naturally" low position. You don't see this is implied by Peterson, and that it is nonsense? You don't see that in Socrates, you don't see that in Kant. It's a fraudulent move.
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Drug abuse is a reason to ask questions about the credibility of someone who sets himself apart as exceptionally wise about how to live life. They don't invalidate the person's message, of course not. I don't think it's beside the point. If someone sets themselves up as a wise seer, and he hid his drug problem (which Peterson did NOT do), what would you say?
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@dnbjedi Totally disagree with "everything is an opinion." Exactly why Socrates opposed the Sophists. "Everything is an opinion" always devolves into might makes right. A person who has spent decades in prison for something they did not do and had nothing to do with is not very high on any hierarchy, but they do know the truth, and they do know that their imprisonment is unjust.
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@adammckevin6330 And what if the man doesn't have an antidote for a snake bite, but as it turns out, he only says he does?
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