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Showing posts with label Peterson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Peterson. Show all posts
Sunday, July 13, 2025
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Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Not quite religion, not quite self-help: welcome to the Jordan Peterson age of nonsense
"Critics agree the writing is nigh on unintelligible. But the source of its success, I think, is that, like Peterson's previous works, it comes up with a set of spiritual "rules for living", which, in this case, he claims to find encoded in various religious texts. The tone, too, may be part of the appeal: it is grandiose, high-flown and at times near-hysterical, but also mesmerising in the manner of an evangelical preacher, whipping his audience into a spiritual frenzy..."
Friday, November 22, 2024
Thursday, November 21, 2024
We Who Wrestle With God by Jordan Peterson review – a culture warrior out of his depth
Eve's yielding to the serpent's temptation, for instance, is viewed as the characteristically female error of sentimental, pseudo-compassionate acceptance of the unacceptable that you see in bad parents, especially mothers, who "cripple their children so that they can make a public show of their martyrdom and compassionate virtue".
Well, there is certainly a discussion to be had about toxicity in parenting, but finding it in the second chapter of Genesis requires impressive single-mindedness (and it is worth noting that Jewish exegetical tradition, unlike Christian, has never been that interested in Eve). Peterson claims that analysis of the patriarchal subtext of the biblical stories is a ridiculous distraction, observing that Genesis depicts both men and women negatively. What he does not seem to acknowledge is that discussing patriarchy is about recognising patterns of social power embedded in the stories, rather than whether specific men are painted in favourable or unfavourable lights. This makes it impossible for him to grant that such discussions can help us avoid some of the spectacularly destructive exploitation of biblical material that has reinforced the demeaning of women throughout Christian history...
Sunday, June 9, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Sunday, December 3, 2023
Sunday, November 26, 2023
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Boy Problems – Mother Jones
Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist whose lectures pack concert halls around the world, was the first to find fame for speaking to a generation of lost boys. In 2016, he went viral for pushing back against legislation in Canada requiring teachers to adhere to a student's preferred gender pronouns. Peterson told people like Mark to stiffen up but also that it was not their fault. He said men have long been stifled by a world that is set up for women to succeed at their expense. He had lectures that might deconstruct episodes of The Simpsons or expound on the psychology of Pinocchio. Then, he would explain that feminism is part of "the murderous equity doctrine," or that white privilege was a "Marxist lie."
If Tate has been the brawn, then Peterson parades as the brain: A former professor who specializes in the works of Carl Jung, Peterson conceals bigotry in pseudo-intellectual digressions. "There's this whole narrative that masculinity is being attacked. And these guys are the heroes of it," said Mark, during a phone conversation we had in July...
This has given some politicians an opportunity. Reclaiming a mythology of manhood has become an important project for the nascent populist right. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) has been the most prominent politician to take on masculinity.
"The loss of high paying, blue collar work for men has been a catastrophe for this nation and for men," writes Hawley in his book Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, "robbing them of employment, family, dignity and hope." In Hawley's vision of gender, men can only find their purpose in the old breadwinner role, which is why he opposes a welfare state. "If government can supply everything a father or husband once did by working," he writes, "what is the point of manhood? The culture of dependence destroys men's agency and their sense of self-worth."…
Sunday, August 6, 2023
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Friday, February 3, 2023
Jordan Peterson’s ‘zombie’ climate contrarianism follows a well-worn path
Last year Peterson came in for scathing criticism from climate scientists after claiming climate models were mostly useless. Peterson had badly misunderstood how models work, they said, with one saying: "He sounds intelligent, but he's completely wrong."…
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2023/feb/02/jordan-petersons-zombie-climate-contrarianism-follows-a-well-worn-path
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/commentisfree/2023/feb/02/jordan-petersons-zombie-climate-contrarianism-follows-a-well-worn-path
Sunday, February 13, 2022
Maple leaf flags, conspiracy theories and The Matrix: inside the Ottawa truckers’ protest
…"It was definitely time to take a stand," says Spencer Bautz, a 24-year-old who drove his truck here from Saskatchewan on day one. Dressed in a black cowboy hat, Bautz described vaccine mandates as "medical segregation" and argued that exclusions for the unvaccinated were an infringement of their freedoms. His views, he said, had been greatly informed by the thinking of the psychology professor and culture war provocateur Jordan Peterson...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
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