Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Jordan B Peterson" channel.

Clinical psychologists don't prescribe psychiatric drugs, psychiatrists do. You know that, of course? Thus psychologists, though they can acquire some knowledge of some medicines, tend to have pretty patchy familiarity with the vast majority. I would venture to say that pharmacists know more. Perhaps owing to his professional's respect for formal training, Professor Peterson relied on his doctor's judgment. Benzodiazepines are still very widely prescribed because of a dearth of alternatives, and they help most people without harming them. That's why they remain on the market. Professor Peterson probably heard this from his doctor. I assume so, really, because doctors discuss medicines with their patients before prescribing them. Perhaps the doctor mentioned risks but downplayed them. Who knows? It's pretty poisonous to accuse someone of lying on such threadbare grounds. (By the way, academics/psychologists/authors don't have constituents, elected politicians do.)
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@becomed1 Not one doctor prescribes them a lot? That's odd. Global benzo sales in 2017 were a little over $2b, and the cost per pill is low. https://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/benzodiazepine-drugs-market.html For the sake of comparison, mainline anti-depressants (SSRIs) are very widely prescribed and are a lot more expensive, yet their 2018 sales were only about $3b. https://www.visiongain.com/report/global-antidepressant-and-anti-anxiety-drugs-market-2019-2029/
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@becomed1 He never took a benzo and can't prescribe them, but "He knows." And you know he knows, because you're a nurse with experience with addicts. Ok. (That's some fancy epistemology you've got mastered. Hey, some people claim Bush knew in advance about 9/11. Can you settle that for me, too?) I'm not saying Peterson didn't know. I don't know one way or another. His record of successfully handling personal responsibility throughout his life argues against it, but I do not know. For all I know his doctor warned him sternly. That's my epistemology. I don't get carried away with it.
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Jordan my very good man, learn how to not jump in when Konstantin is telling you about life in Russia. He's the Russian. You're from Edmonton. Just sit still and listen, ok? (Unless he's been going on for simply far too long.) Other than that, please carry on in your inimitable fashion!👍
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All very nice. But I should still probably get around to The Golden Bough. Yes. Soon.
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NATO missed a chance at a "permanent peace with Russia," you say.😂 My heavens, you do have an awfully high opinion of Putin. (Did you believe in a 'permanent peace' with ISIS too?) Canvass the opinions of people in Russia's many neighbouring countries, like Finland, Poland, Georgia, the Baltic states and all the rest. You may learn something from their centuries of experience.
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Yes, but I think I could read his mind at one point: "Ok, stoner."
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You're referring to the so-called "law of regression to the mean," long rendered in ordinary language as "What goes up must come down." It can also be tied with some justification to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states (in simplified terms) that heat tends to even out across matter. But not everything that goes up comes back down again. For instance, numerous spacecraft have gone up in the air and ended up on Mars or have left the Solar System entirely, and they're not coming back. More profoundly, perhaps, it also tends to be uncertain just when a given thing will regress to the mean. The New York Stock Exchange periodically falls for a while and then resumes rising, but overall its rise has been persistent for at least the 139 years since the inception of the Dow Jones Index, and probably since the exchange's founding in 1792. Although a steady daily rise over one year or a thousand years seems extremely unlikely, it is in theory possible. More realistically, it should be expected that it will eventually return to its original now-minuscule value, since even the Solar System will not last forever. But no one knows when. My point is that it's not axiomatically true that the majority of people would be against wokeism at this time. Logically speaking, it could have gone on becoming more and more popular, or maintained a steady popularity, for a much longer time. A lot of uncertainty can lie behind the word eventually.
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For anyone wishing to avoid any unwarranted suggestion of conservatism given off by calling them neo-Marxists, I say It's time to start calling them the New Puritans. Rhetorically superior, I would assert, with advantages in accuracy too. It's my coinage and you're invited to use it.
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Enough misinformation! Harris' family background is as follows: Mother's side, 100% southern Indian; father's side, combined African-Jamaican and Irish-Jamaican in unknown proportions (but doubtless far more black than Irish). And anyone saying "Jamaica isn't black" disrespects the facts: 76% black/15% black-white (together 91%).
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What a lot of prattling on. 1) You are called terfs for wanting to keep men out of your toilets and change-rooms. 2) Toilets are "sacred" now? Sacred?
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Professor Scruton looked so hale here; and it wasn't long ago, just 16 months. He was 74. How fortunate to reach your mid-seventies and have your mind and your person in such good order. He outshines his interlocutors here, not merely by dint of sheer mental speed (Peterson in his way might be quicker) but by being approximately as quick yet much more relaxed, and that for well-earned reason. The well-prepared man is relaxed; the relaxed mind thinks well. I think we had in Roger Scruton a person who fed his mind with great care and fussiness, for a long time, and to great profit. The other two men are all right.
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Michelle Goldberg has to defend political correctness because she owes everything she's got to it. Nothing else could explain her presence here given that she talks and thinks at the level of a barely-above-average 20-year-old undergrad.
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Liberals think mining is 'icky.' (For one thing, it lacks any feminine aspect. That alone marks it for doom.) Thus next to no mines open in the West anymore. Brilliant! So we're now vulnerable in myriad ways. Here we learn most uranium now comes from Central Asia, a region thoroughly dominated by Russia and China. Fantastic!
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@edwinyapjr.2235 If sheer brilliance, panache, and quiet cerebral passion are your cup of tea, I heartily recommend Freud's Civilization and its Discontents, as would many who've read it. Not easy to find used and in good condition, if you get my meaning. In English get the Strachey translation (WW Norton). Cheers.
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1:03:05 "There might be one way of being a good person" What? I've never heard such a preposterous thing in my life. Possibly there is no more deranged group of people walking around nowadays than professors. (And don't be thrown off by the word "might." He wasn't expressing actual doubt there; he just doesn't know the word he wanted was "may," as in "I may not be a lawyer, but I still know this is against the law." It appeared he meant it.)
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Fitting if true. There was nothing good about her.
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Of course cleverness alone cannot propel one to the position of top UK prosecutor. It must come with a suave affability, in this case perhaps cynically overlying an intention to implement massive change...coercively. Let's recall how trusting Piers was in the 2020-2022 period, which has proved to be lastingly destructive in most places.
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You're claiming to "KNOW something about people" (psychologists) yourself.
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@jds3068 So should Los Angeles then tolerate a 50-foot statue of Charles Manson in full view of the public in a prominent area if it is on private property and available for purchase? Should St. Catharines tolerate one of Paul Bernardo?
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@factcheck1776 Nice reply.👏👏
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@chobin7982 I did answer you, over a month ago. My last two posts began with "What a dull" and "Who said humans." Those were my replies to your direct questions. I did not reply to your final post which began "Well I've yet" (1) because it asked no question of me and (2) (more importantly) it didn't interest me. You're a rude a*s*o*e and that is your problem. Just look at your replies to me. It's why you get fired and it's why you don't get along in the world. It also accounts for your misanthropy. Of course you hate people, since your behaviour makes them hate you, and they end up showing it—like me right now. Unsatisfactory relationship with your parents? It's the usual reason in cases, such as yours, of addiction to p---ing people off. You're also not very bright. E.g.: "Probably [...] guaranteed." Hahaha, which is it? And "worked a blue collar work" (!) What? What else but dullness can account for semi-literacy in a person who reads books? And yes, I've done manual labour. (And no, I have no religion or religious feelings of any sort.) I've no interest at all in dealing with a silly and ill-tempered child such as yourself. Once again you've demonstrated that adherence to far left politics arises out of personality deformations, but even the people shown to us by Orwell in The Road to Wigan Pier come off looking a lot better than you. You're the second-worst-behaved person I've ever faced online, and the worst was also a flaming leftist. So have a nice life. You may enjoy your adulthood once you reach it. As for me, I'm glad to say I'll be unable to receive posts from you anymore. Ta!
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@nicolesalter2726 That's not exactly what I said.
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@metapills <---"Thousands of bombs on Libya." Funny you should make that claim when Esprit de Corps, the Canadian military magazine closely tied to the CF, says that "In total, Canadian CF-18s [in Libya] dropped 696 bombs of various types."
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Dyson's performance here is to public debate what riot is to public protest: abandonment of regard for everything but one's own rage.
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I hope so. He seems a bit of a lightweight. Maybe he was a little intimidated; I thought I noticed that. I like his tie, though.
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Communists [with a straight face]: "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unless you call yourself a communist." 😂😂😂😂🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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How do you know that?
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At some point you shall have to let go of hope. It's trapping you.
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As though filling a doctor's prescription for a widely-prescribed medicine amounted to out-of-control overindulgence! Most people take Benzodiazepines safely and stop them uneventfully. Those who don't are unlucky for reasons that are not understood. Your comment has a poisonous, trashy tone. I hope you're not enjoying his suffering.
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@stephaniezank7717 What rank nonsense. Not a soul demands those things you listed in your would-be refutation. You deliberately deny the flagrantly undeniable: that Western civilization is routinely condemned as worthless while all others are automatically exalted simply for their non-Westernness, and that this judgement is held to be final and absolute to the point of constituting a touchstone of morality. Total garbage, all of it. All civilizations and cultures—all things to ever come out of humanity—are equally fair game, subject to praise or criticism from all.
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Well said. Yes, there is garbage in the West—and it's those very Westerners who call the West garbage. They're the poison, they're the mental and moral mutants, every one of them.
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Yes, it is important to note that, like smoking cigarettes, wokeism must be aimed at the very young, for people much past 20 who've never smoked or gone woke are quite unlikely to start. Those who do start in their youth may continue for years or decades or indeed into old age. But very few start at 30, and no one starts at 40.
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@CaptainSnackbeard Thank you for asking. It's mainly a wokester thing. They are passionately in favor of it in various forms, including the sort on street corners, stores and other public spaces, but especially the institutional, systemic variety. Now you know.
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@CaptainSnackbeard ...oh, I forgot: "Lol" — the favorite of 12-year-olds everywhere.
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If you'll excuse me, I'm needed back on planet Earth.
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For god's sake man, stop saying "poh-ten-tial." In the name of all that's decent, just stop.
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He didn't have chronic anxiety as I understand it. It had to do with life events, primarily his wife's cancer diagnosis. There's a great difference from a medical perspective. For one person the medicine would be a long-term treatment, for the other it would be to get them through a rough patch. They are often prescribed, for example, to bereaved spouses who are otherwise psychologically healthy.
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The medical profession, formerly: "First, you shall do no harm" The medical profession now: "Look at me, I'm Victor Frankenstein!"
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Sometimes he interrupts to just go on pointlessly. I can't believe how long he took to make a simple point about the correlation with openness (referring to the text on psychoanalysis his supervisor gave him when he was training). Man, don't give us your life story.
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I'll bet he has some good suits. As he himself pointed out, he found out what an English gentleman is and made himself into one, though a simulacrum or 'failure'. The attempt would not be made without any suits built by a good tailor. I agree that he's admirably relaxed, though.
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Why do these three students walk out in the first several minutes? F***.
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@sandyh9927 And who tf asked you, pos troll?
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I missed any mention of sleeping pills.
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@karlmaxwell9277 Relaxers is a better term for them. Their suitability for daytime use takes them outside the hypnotic category, even though they are used by some to help with insomnia. If you asked doctors or pharmacists if benzodiazepines are sleeping pills you'd never get a flat yes. It's fairer to say that, like alcohol, at prescribed doses they permit sleep in the tired rather than inducing it. But I don't disagree with you completely. There's overlap up to a point.
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@sovereignpsyche7968 Peterson himself calls them neo-Marxists, which is also ok. Neo-anythingism is what results when people pick and choose from the tenets or even just the tenor of any 'ism' and then tailor it to suit themselves. The result is often abhorrent to proponents of the original doctrine. Just earlier this month I began calling them the New Puritans. (This is an original coinage as far as I am aware.) Use it if you like. I also came up with Fundamentalist Progressives earlier this year. Cheers.
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@robertschulte2633 I think there's a lot of truth to what you say. When I hear or read objectionable talk from far-left PC types I may not be able to sense their real motivations but I categorize the motivations as: 1) Sincere but misguided, i.e., it's what they've been taught at school, home, or the media and they haven't or can't think it through; 2) Insincere and cloaking an attempt to be on the winning side; or 3) Consciously sincere but subconsciously a power grab with little real concern for what's fair.
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Join a political party and spend a lot of time in its activities. Decide what your most important concerns are and talk about them as much as possible with as many other members as possible. Make sure to speak to higher-ranking members and the politicians themselves as well. Find out who else in the party is most interested in the areas you are interested in. It's all about talking to people. Be prepared to spend time socializing with them too, eating and drinking. Be prepared to discuss important events, news coverage and books. Good luck!
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