Comments by "Nikola" (@NiMi93) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

  1. "The most interesting things about fantasies about the end of the world about the various cults through history is that they are often accompanied by certain forms of behavior that one might characterize as ascetic. Asceticism is an important part of many religious and secular movements -the end is approaching, the apocalypse is nearing, so then we should fast or perhaps we should flog ourselves, it is interesting how many similar patterns we can see in our time. Whether you are preoccupied with climate change or systemic racism, you should engage in some kind of ascetic atonement in advance of the great reconning -and this I think infests a lot of contemporary progressivism; the desire to eat rabbit food, constantly trying to eliminate things from one's diet; the desire to engage in abstention from reproduction because climate change is so cataclysmic. You can find all of this in ancient religion." "One of the additional underground advantages of being a doomsayer is that you can present yourself as the ultimate virtue-seeking redeemer by claiming to be obsessed by nothing but large-scale disaster. You can construe yourself as virtuous by the depth of your concern, and you can abdicate your responsibility to actually deal with less self-dramatizing problems that constitute problems you could solve and address if you put your mind to it in the real world."
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  2. I hate to see what is happening to Jordan Peterson -but if it were any person that is sharp enough to face this beast head-on, it is him.
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