Hi everyone I'm from Ryan the BigBrainChungus podcast. I'm gonna be making an episode focusing on dismantling some of the Jordan Peterson ideas on Saturday. So far I'm gonna focus on his idea that hierarchies are natural and organized by competence as the central thesis of the episode. Are there any other arguments out there that you all think are crucial to critiquing his politics? I'm still doing the research part of the episode so any good lefty take downs of his work that anyone could recommend I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance.
Thank you I really appreciate your comment. I think his attempt to resurrect a dead god puts him at ends with Sam Harris. I find it fascinating that a lot of the new atheists types went from calling themselves militant atheists to Christian atheists. I hope to expand on the what you mentioned. Thank you I will be sure to include it in my show notes.
I think the best thing you can do, if you can stomach it, is watch a couple of his "Maps of meaning" lectures and notice the kinds of things he likes to repeat and focus on. It is very fascinating to me that his very odd ideas that were not popular in mainstream or in academics eventually became widely known after his rise to fame from the whole "refusing to use pronouns" thing. I'm sure someone could follow his path from a rather respected clinical psychologist to what is really more of an anthropologist through his career, while at the same time moving from being a more typical academic in psychology, to being completely niche in what he later worked on.
Thanks for the tip. I will try to endure the pain of his lectures.