Comments by "ricardo kowalski" (@ricardokowalski1579) on "Tom Nicholas"
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27:04 "peterson' comments outside the BBC show... celebrate the capitalist west "
Complete strawman
3:50 Peterson is talking about English journalism tradition . This is NOT the "west", This is NOT an endorsment of capitalism. The on-screen quote merely says that Peterson considers Orwell a "hero", not a champion of capitalist west
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24:00 (publication) "besset by roadblocks"
And yet, the author misses the point that this is exactly what Orwell and Peterson are saying: the right to say what others do not want to hear
1984 was a book nobody wanted published. Not the communists, not the "british capitalist establishment". And yet the book DID get published... but where ? Was it published in the soviet union? Or was it published in the awful capitalist west ?
The issue is not that Peterson celebrates the west, or capitalism. The issue is that ONLY under western capitalism CAN a book like 1984 be published
As an important english tradition, it is worth remembering that Marx has to flee to England to be able to publish his works. And publish them IN ENGLAND he did. Not in Germany, not in Russia, not even in Italy. He had them published where he found the liberty to say what others do not want to hear .
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28:18 "important to down the Nazis first"
This is where the author fails to understand the disappointment of Orwell on mankind as a whole. Orwell wants to bring down EVERYTHING, he merely has a preference of the order: nazis first , Stalin and communist second, and the "opressive" English establishment later.
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Questioning what "western culture" means, and the three points put forth ( 31:00 ) does not support the premise that Peterson doesn't understand Orwell. You should explore that issue, but not crutch and claim a strawman (Peterson doesn't understand Orwell) to make the point (western culture is ill defined)
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