Manosphere Jordan Peterson - Internet Daddy Simulator, Post-modern Anti-postmodernist, Canadian Psychology Professor, Depressed, Got Hooked on Benzos

[Shpongoolio Trismegistus]

I think I've explored this community quite enough, and given some of you a sufficient intellectual beating.

I'll be taking my leave.

Maybe try actually reading books? I know it's hard, but it's worth it. You don't want to spend another 3 years of your life holding incorrect opinions about basic facts, do you?

 

[Lemmingwise]

Well, that's just not true. He was quite a well known figure in the scientific community well before any of the controversy surrounding his opposition of bill C-16. So, you're flatly incorrect on the facts there. Peterson is in the top tenth of the top one percent of cited researchers.

I've said before I'm a layman. Just pages before you showed up, I asked someone their assessment of his scientific contributions. I would have expected you to take issue then, but maybe you hadn't seen it. To some degree I stand corrected, but considering of all the people, positive and negative about peterson I've never heard such a resounding endorsement of his credentials, I take it with a grain of salt.

And since this conversation isn't happening in the scientific community it's bit of a moot point.

Take a, as a sample, a website like goodreads, and maps of meaning has about 5 reviews from before him appealing to the meme magic wave (the first 14 years since the book was published) and 505 reviews in the 5 years after he did so, so I'm not that far off from the mark.

Again, untrue. A corollary, how would you know? None of you have read it. It's literally his first and only textbook. How many hours of your life have you spent nibbling at his public image on this Scandinavian interpretive dance forum without the slightest context for his positions?

A cathedral is a public and communal building that stands the test of time. How would I know? I don't know. At this point it's probably about equal to the amount of hours I was enthusiastic about him. I wouldn't have read Jung if it hadn't been for Peterson, as well as some of the russian classics (although I was already in a russian literature phase).

The context is his public appearances, hundreds of hours of him talking about things, some of his public writings. What, I'm not qualified enough to have an opinion on the man who spent years of his life trying to appeal to the masses on tv?

The book is, fundamentally, an empirical description of the meta-structures of culture and the process of its generation via existential logical graphing as imagistically represented by schematic diagrams. In other words, it's an extremely comprehensive empirical explanation of how people generate belief structures, how they represent them to themselves, and why.

So, if you're a psychologist, or a scholar of philosophy, or a student of mythology, it's unfathomably valuable to have his work at hand, not merely because it applies such creative methodology in service of the depiction of these meta-structures which constituent the fundamental constituent elements of our collective consciousness (something that you can then do to your own fields and subjects of interest), but also because it provides a robust methodological paradigm for the analysis of the products of human thought.

I mean you're not really making a strong case for why it would be comparable to a cathedral, something that both takes a 100 years to build, hundreds of people to work their whole lives on it. There are useful guides on youtube how to run your minecraft server I'm sure. Invaluable to some, ignored by most.

Here's peterson's words on how the book was received

“I don’t think people had any idea what to make of the book, and I still think they don’t,” Peterson says. “No one has attempted to critique it seriously.”

link to (biased) article:

What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

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The first hardcopy sold fewer than 500 copies. A cathedral of a book.

It was good enough that Harvard had him teach it as a course for quite some time.

Yet Peterson advices young men to go into the trades instead of to university. That shows you his opinion of the value of what he was doing there. More harm than good, overall, by his words.

 

[marfusha]

Suspend me, punish me, spank me daddy Twitter.

This is just like when he was begging for his Uni to punish him for all the things he said and the most he got was a letter that said, "Please cut it out," so eventually he had to leave his tenure when he realized he wasn't going to be victimized.

True, he's always begging to be victimized

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

True, he's always begging to be victimized
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Ohhhhhh YES! Here's the links you can go to to CANCEL ME, YES!

PIN IT!

 

[Lemmingwise]

I've decided this will be my last post on this website. I like you, I think you're a reasonable person. However, I can tell you're not very experienced in the art of reasoning itself. I promise you that you will not develop that skill on the farms

Well one thing you might want to learn is that if you want to reason succesfully, you do more than just assert things. You need to actually support that assertion with evidence to make a good argument. Since you're not clear at all why you think I'm bad at reasoning, a pattern that has run throughout our interaction, I'd say at the very least I'm better at it than you.

And isn't measuring our egodicks the only thing that really matters?

Honestly, you could have picked a worse person to deify, because Peterson is generally very good at supporting his assertions with evidence, such as supporting the value of IQ tests or big five tests with how strongly those results correlate with results such as lifetime income, and the fact that the link is stronger than any other link in the field of psychology. You know, when peterson isn't making false claims about his own life, or defending the concept of white privelege as something to be ashamed for (but repackaged with different words).

If you learn to reason like peterson, you'll be in good shape. I hope your big ego thing is trolling, but I don't think it is. It reminds me of the person that sends compliments to the chef not because he had a really good food experience, but he likes to experience himself as a person who's opinion is that important.

It takes one to spot one, I guess. I like to think I've grown past it, but the fact that I want to 1up you proves otherwise.

But the announcing "this is my last post" perfectly encapsulates those delusions of grandeur, as if it's some type of thing fondly remembered, engraved in the history of the site. It's only the second time you've said it would be your last post. Some idiots end up making such announcement dozens of times. I think you're different though, especially after this light ribbing.

You were a nice momentary diversion, you taught me something about what william james and jung believed. I haven't yet gotten around to verifying if it's actually the case, but it's probably true. If your ego allowed it you might have learned something from the experience as well. You're at least partially self aware about your ego.

But there is a reason you chose to talk about these things here and one of those reasons is that you're not one of these fantasticly awesome and important harvard students you talk about.

 

[BluntyBitch]

I've decided this will be my last post on this website.

That's what they all say! See you back soon now

And isn't measuring our egodicks the only thing that really matters?

No, washing your balls is really what matters, did you not learn anything from the autism? You measure them After your room is clean and your manmeat washed & cleanly undie'd and Then we can talk, you know, real logick and RHEEsoning. But grill me a steak first bitch, I'm hungry.

But the announcing "this is my last post" perfectly encapsulates those delusions of grandeur, as if it's some type of thing fondly remembered, engraved in the history of the site. It's only the second time you've said it would be your last post. Some idiots end up making such announcement dozens of times. I think you're different though, especially after this light ribbing.

Tell him to bring coffee in the am, I take mine medium brew and black, cuz I'm sweet enough

Eta: seriously why were there no audist jannies yelling at Mr jizz over all his fucking double posting?

DO MEN GET HELD TO A LOWER STANDARD HERE OR WHAT??

If it's dark roast I might take a cube of sugar

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

Wasnt this also the Fatkins diet?

No, the Atkins diet was a minimal carb diet. Keto is closer to this all meat retardation, but that allows other high protein/fat food. AFAIK dietary fiber isn't prohibited by either.

 

[marfusha]

This all meat retardation is basically Autoimmune Protocol Diet without fruits and veggies.

 

[Noir drag freak]

One thing that bugs me about Jordan Peterson is that most of his advice is tame. His general audience is mostly working to lower middle class males. While most of his advice is solid, I do think that sometimes he comes off as naive. It shows when he talks about identity politics and the realities of modern dating. He’s stuck in the 1950s mindset of provincial Canada.

Blaming Foucault and post modernism is not going to cut it. Besides, Foucault was more descriptive than prescriptive. Also, I would argue that black and homosexual thinkers were actually precursors to the modern left. Though, I would argue that most of the ideas have been watered down.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I wonder what percentage of Lobsterson's 12 Rules readers actually did improve in the long term. Not just for a few weeks/months but years.

I would say without therapy and/or better self help books it's not possible for the vast majority of his mentally ill/depressed fanboys.

Hell, not even Lobsterson himself did improve (besides becoming rich) and he wrote the damn thing. Instead he does and says r.etarded bullshit. So he even got worse.

 

[GentlemanFaggot]

I wonder what percentage of Lobsterson's 12 Rules readers actually did improve in the long term. Not just for a few weeks/months but years.

I would say without therapy and/or better self help books it's not possible for the vast majority of his mentally ill/depressed fanboys.

Hell, not even Lobsterson himself did improve (besides becoming rich) and he wrote the damn thing. Instead he does and says r.etarded bullshit. So he even got worse.

Probably about as long as most self-help guru advice. They do some basic stuff that improves them in the short-term but when hurdles happen they end up revering back to old habits because most self-help gurus are just offering shortcuts instead of really addressing root causes of dissatisfaction or depression.

Then along comes the next guru to peddle new advice...

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

I wonder what percentage of Lobsterson's 12 Rules readers actually did improve in the long term. Not just for a few weeks/months but years.

I would say without therapy and/or better self help books it's not possible for the vast majority of his mentally ill/depressed fanboys.

Hell, not even Lobsterson himself did improve (besides becoming rich) and he wrote the damn thing. Instead he does and says r.etarded bullshit. So he even got worse.

They will get a brief rush of confidence after reading some self help advice but when it comes time to actually wash their penis, they say, “I’ll just do it tomorrow.”

 

[Bixby Snyder]

One thing that bugs me about Jordan Peterson is that most of his advice is tame. His general audience is mostly working to lower middle class males. While most of his advice is solid, I do think that sometimes he comes off as naive. It shows when he talks about identity politics and the realities of modern dating. He’s stuck in the 1950s mindset of provincial Canada.

His advice is common sense given from someone with credentials. He talks in circles, uses big words, drops a few scholarly names, and people ohhh and ahhh. Plenty of people’s parents told them to make their fucking bed. He gives the same advice but takes 20 minutes and drops citations. This same concept applies to his ideas in the political sphere — it’s academic doublespeak wrapped around right-wing principles, which is fine but people think his rambling is some kinda genius.

 

[Mepsi Pax]

"The world can be validly construed as a forum for action, and as a place of things"

This is the first sentence from Maps of Meaning. Why don't you impress me and tell me what you think it means?

The world is like particles, man, rubbing up on one another... bro like what if we NAMED the particles? Woaaah dude trippy and then they could like, marry each other and shit, make big particle babies, crazy dude! But bro aren't we just particles man? How did particles like name themselves dude? Yo you can't name that particle baby you like have no authority over that particle dude I had sex with it first - Basically philosophy in it's current state.

True, it's entirely subjective. But, say, in the trials I'm referencing, they saw well over an 80% cessation rate with chronic smokers after chemical induction of a mystical experience with psychedelics, and that isn't mere metaphyiscs- that's an objective fact.

Yeah but could they describe their trips with parti-colored pantaloons words that would be acceptable in the royal court of ineffectual assholes? I think NOT

Obvisuly I don't understand big J pedersons philosopy state,ent but u know if it has big sekrit meaning then maybe its not 2 smart 2 say for making it describe world and how it do's

 

[Two by Four]

I wonder what percentage of Lobsterson's 12 Rules readers actually did improve in the long term. Not just for a few weeks/months but years.

I would say without therapy and/or better self help books it's not possible for the vast majority of his mentally ill/depressed fanboys.

Hell, not even Lobsterson himself did improve (besides becoming rich) and he wrote the damn thing. Instead he does and says r.etarded bullshit. So he even got worse.

I started watching lobsterman's videos just before 12 rules for life came out; after some reflection I decided to gtfo of my current degree and study something else, eventually cut the toxic scum I'd been hanging around with out of my life, started exercising again, and just all around began to sort my shit out.

5 years since then and I've graduated, I work in a high-paying field, I'm engaged, and I'll be buying a house this year. I'm still a fat fuck though, but working on it.

You won't hear from most of the other people with similar stories, because they'll have fucked off the internet if they had any sense; plus it doesn't help that associating yourself with JBP is social suicide now, so yet another reason to not disclose that it was his book/lectures/whatever that set you on track. That and I'm no longer really a fan of his since I don't need his messaging anymore, I'm subbed to his youtube and will occasionally tune in if he has a good guest on (it's good when he has scientists on, less so when it's about hot-button political shite), I suspect similar people to me would feel the same.

I like the guy, his philosophy and books aren't terribly groundbreaking, but they're good, simple advice that I'm sure plenty of modern day bugmen didn't get from their parents/teachers because they all grew up in coddled hugboxes where everyone's a winner and participation alone is worthy of reward.

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Maybe try actually reading books? I know it's hard, but it's worth it. You don't want to spend another 3 years of your life holding incorrect opinions about basic facts, do you?

Oh no, you can't fool me:

 

[Yeeted Teet]

His advice is common sense given from someone with credentials. He talks in circles, uses big words, drops a few scholarly names, and people ohhh and ahhh. Plenty of people’s parents told them to make their fucking bed. He gives the same advice but takes 20 minutes and drops citations. This same concept applies to his ideas in the political sphere — it’s academic doublespeak wrapped around right-wing principles, which is fine but people think his rambling is some kinda genius.

Most self help advice is pretty basic, what people struggle with is doing it consistently. Forming good new habits is difficult, and if something about his delivery manages to inspire people to actually follow through that's a lot more valuable than the content itself. He's rambly and pretentious but if someone who really needs to clean their room is impressed by that, it's not the worst thing.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I wonder what percentage of Lobsterson's 12 Rules readers actually did improve in the long term. Not just for a few weeks/months but years.

I would say without therapy and/or better self help books it's not possible for the vast majority of his mentally ill/depressed fanboys.

Hell, not even Lobsterson himself did improve (besides becoming rich) and he wrote the damn thing. Instead he does and says r.etarded bullshit. So he even got worse.

Is all completely subjective so someone might be saying how a self help book changed their life but they look to you as the same as always with maybe extra smugness and not much else.

People who say they were in a slump and some 12 rules for life or The Secret gave them the feels and help them get over it are probably being honest but most of people get emo at some point and get over it eventually regardless. Is like those stories you see in the comments on music videos where someone will say how they were all depresed and wanted to blow their brains out before the shitty corny song from the video started playing and it totally saved their lives, or maybe emotions are flimsy and more easy to sway than most think,

 

[C0d3]

So, it's not precisely about habits, per say.

per se*
also, kill yourself you pseudointellectual sped.

 

[George Floyd Sneed]

per se*
also, kill yourself you pseudointellectual sped.

My favorite part is when he dropped the stilted, pseudointellectual writing style when it became obvious to him that nobody was impressed by his intellect. Pretty much standard fare for most lobsters.