Comments by "LS O\x27Brien" (@lsobrien) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder"
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As Peterson goes around the world saying all he does, I’m told, and told again, that he “is being heralded as one of the world’s foremost public intellectuals”. (Just why do these journalists rely on the exact same turns of phrase? And why are they not honest enough to admit that they are the ones heralding?)
Many of those who in fact know something of postmodernist theory or neo-Marxist philosophy — because, hold onto your fins, they are not the same — can’t take the man seriously. In his joining of those distinct categories to create his big, terrifying Other or Them, he’s, in Wolfgang Pauli’s phrase, not even wrong.
That’s certainly not to say leftists more generally shouldn’t engage with him. Peterson may not be a serious thinker, but the committed following he commands is very real. As a result, when a good portion of them seem to believe the BS that a minority x is a threat to everything they hold dear, matters necessitate a response.
“The anti-Western philosophy that is being pursued so assiduously by the radical left.”
He’s reinforcing the falsehood that the effigy that some untrustworthy theorists before him have erected, and branded cultural Marxism, is far more dangerous than the populist old-school rightism currently swamping the corridors of power, and not at all under the dreaded guise of cultural theory. It’s the responsibility of others to point out the obvious, however tiresome: this bogeyman is so clearly made of straw.
And go further, by stating the case that that other movement, typified by Trump, Putin, Modi, Erdoğan, Duterte, Berlusconi, Orbán, Morawiecki, and all those other revolting nationalists, is a rather more pressing concern. One to be opposed, and not strategically aligned with because they do battle with the forces of secularisation, relativism, equality and all the other heresies born from, or supported by, liberal thought. I repeat, Jordan Peterson a “classic British liberal,” a traditionalist, communitarian and pragmatist, self-proclaimed scourge of postmodernism, a Nietzschean, opportunistic crusader for Enlightenment values who encourages men to “offer your sons up as a sacrifice to God,” is not a serious thinker.
Should anyone else insist on using the same archaic language as the man of the hour: it’s not the barbarians at the gate or in the trendy coffee shops we need to be worried about. It’s the barbarism inherent to our institutions. Because it is that which leads us — collectively — to make the same mistakes again, and again, and again; with ever more tragifarcial consequences, in this the nuclear-tipped Anthropocene.
Personal tragedies inevitably follow; false prophets not far behind. Offering easy answers (for a fee), and a embrace that, ever so subtly, turns to constriction. How pathetic, how troubled, how sad an age that propels frauds like Peterson to stardom. How frightening.
https://medium.com/@lukeob/seriously-the-conclusion-to-questioning-jordan-petersons-politics-b7abb3857cee
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