Jordan Peterson is mystifying. He’s a boring, tendentious, unoriginal authoritarian who gets most everything wrong. He’s not an atheist, as the following clips show, so why do atheists pay attention to him?
Here is the quick Jordan Peterson video that I did few months ago on Facebook that sent the Peterson cult into fits. Peterson in his own words. Part 1. pic.twitter.com/AIjtnTvQo2
— Dusty Smith🐓 (@cultofdusty) January 28, 2018
Peterson in is own words part 2. pic.twitter.com/jjJWO3HmhL
— Dusty Smith🐓 (@cultofdusty) January 28, 2018
He has written a book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (of course a conservative book is all about arbitrary rules), which gets savagely reviewed.
Peterson, who has become one of the most prominent critics of anything that can be labelled as “political correctness”, is especially conservative on gender and family roles. “Female lobsters . . . identify the top guy quickly, and become irresistibly attracted to him,” he writes. Generalising from the crustacean to the human he adds, “This is brilliant strategy, in my estimation.”
Apparently, the secret to success is to appeal to the vast audience of male lobsters.
Oh, look. David Brooks gives Peterson a thumbs up. Now we know what kind of person favors our Canadian authoritarian.