- Joined
- Jan 19, 2021
We all know today that many young people come from fractured homes.
Be it divorce, death or the sperm donor skipping town, many kids never had a stable role male role model during their formative years.
Even if the child's father is in their life, they're the weekend dad the kid sees every other weekend, or is working all the time tying to support the family.
So it's no surprise that in this father-role vacuum young people are drawn to parasocial relationships with internet talking heads like a moth to the back porch light.
Arguably the largest of these web-daddys is Dr Jordan Peterson.
Love em, or hate em he seems to have a good message: straighten yourself out before you go straightening your neighbors out.
His lectures on the allegories of bible stories seem to be a good secular fit to our time, considering "the masses" seem to need some sort of glue that holds everything together...
Anyway he seems to be the most honest of the bunch. I havnt checked anything out of his recently so I could be wrong on that front.
Other examples are Sam Hyde, who's edgy skits have turnt into "life chats" where he puffs on a fat cigar alone in a parkinglot and gives life advice like an older brother or cool uncle would give you.
He seems, not quite a grifter yet..not quite doing it out of compassion.
You also have Joe Rogan and the rest of the "intellectual dark web", if that still is a thing, that radiates off of him.
His podcast was more of a "stoner friend" simulator than father figure, but he still has disciples who look to him to parrort any point of view of his with out looking into the topic.
There's plenty more I'm sure, these are just the big 3 that come to mind.
Side note: What I notice with these types, along with people who are considered intelligent and E-celebrity ( Neil Degrasse Tyson, one of the Weinstein brothers)
Is their ego grows the more attention they get. They begin speaking with authority on subjects that are not their expertise and lemmings parrot these opinions like their own. But then again people have been doing the same woth Tv talking heads for decades.
You also have your disciples if these people.
If you can figure out their internet daddy you could also probably figure out who else they listen to, what they have read, their general opinions.
So I suppose its a double edge sword.
Depending on the person, they might be better off talking one of these people's suggestions being they never had a stable father figure around. Considering they dont take the schmucks word as gospel but rather as advice.
And the other side is the almost cult presence some of these people have. If you listen to QandAs at the end of Peterson's lectures many young confused men in Uni look at him like the pope but with all the answers.
What's your take on this?
I wouldnt mind hearing your ideas on "friend simulators" too.
You know, watch someone play and give commentary playing a video game online as a substitute for playing with a buddy at your place. Or people who watch reactions to movies/songs and what have you. Shit I've seen people post Meme Reaction videos. There must be some real loney people out their.
Be it divorce, death or the sperm donor skipping town, many kids never had a stable role male role model during their formative years.
Even if the child's father is in their life, they're the weekend dad the kid sees every other weekend, or is working all the time tying to support the family.
So it's no surprise that in this father-role vacuum young people are drawn to parasocial relationships with internet talking heads like a moth to the back porch light.
Arguably the largest of these web-daddys is Dr Jordan Peterson.
Love em, or hate em he seems to have a good message: straighten yourself out before you go straightening your neighbors out.
His lectures on the allegories of bible stories seem to be a good secular fit to our time, considering "the masses" seem to need some sort of glue that holds everything together...
Anyway he seems to be the most honest of the bunch. I havnt checked anything out of his recently so I could be wrong on that front.
Other examples are Sam Hyde, who's edgy skits have turnt into "life chats" where he puffs on a fat cigar alone in a parkinglot and gives life advice like an older brother or cool uncle would give you.
He seems, not quite a grifter yet..not quite doing it out of compassion.
You also have Joe Rogan and the rest of the "intellectual dark web", if that still is a thing, that radiates off of him.
His podcast was more of a "stoner friend" simulator than father figure, but he still has disciples who look to him to parrort any point of view of his with out looking into the topic.
There's plenty more I'm sure, these are just the big 3 that come to mind.
Side note: What I notice with these types, along with people who are considered intelligent and E-celebrity ( Neil Degrasse Tyson, one of the Weinstein brothers)
Is their ego grows the more attention they get. They begin speaking with authority on subjects that are not their expertise and lemmings parrot these opinions like their own. But then again people have been doing the same woth Tv talking heads for decades.
You also have your disciples if these people.
If you can figure out their internet daddy you could also probably figure out who else they listen to, what they have read, their general opinions.
So I suppose its a double edge sword.
Depending on the person, they might be better off talking one of these people's suggestions being they never had a stable father figure around. Considering they dont take the schmucks word as gospel but rather as advice.
And the other side is the almost cult presence some of these people have. If you listen to QandAs at the end of Peterson's lectures many young confused men in Uni look at him like the pope but with all the answers.
What's your take on this?
I wouldnt mind hearing your ideas on "friend simulators" too.
You know, watch someone play and give commentary playing a video game online as a substitute for playing with a buddy at your place. Or people who watch reactions to movies/songs and what have you. Shit I've seen people post Meme Reaction videos. There must be some real loney people out their.
