Jordan Peterson

Is there a rule about throwing red meat to your fans to help elevate your public profile? If there is, then he's nailing it.

Getting thrown off twitter is surely a great career move for right wing characters. Demonstrates their points about the left and the Marxists. He can talk all about it directky to his followers, gathered on Telegram and Truth Social.

Peterson's big fault is his absolutism on science, he is anal about statistics, citation and backing with evidence.

It makes his positions unnuanced for today's world, especially social media.

I wouldn't say that about him at all. He was on JRE talking about climate models being nonsense (even though they've been very accurate thus far) because they're just abstractions and the systems are too complicated. Correction all models are abstractions. In science you cannot factor in all influential variables because all systems are too complicated.

This is a completely hypocritical position because modern statistics is heavily model based.

He just cherry picks what he likes and shuns what he doesn't like, which surprisingly most intellectuals do with a heavy ideological bias.

A Missouri Catholic Democrat (I forget his name) borrowed the phrase from Bismarck - 'Kulturkampf' (culture struggle) in German.

Not really, it's his way of playing to his audience. You can make a good living from people who have stroppy or aloof notions about the world. Gemma O'Doherty made a few quid from patrion for example online crowd funding.

Not to put Petersen on that level because he is without question a very smart man. He can make some good points (very few imo) but as I say he is aware of his audience and as such he tends to keep in step with these ideas without fully approving them to maximise his popularity.

Look at it this way. You won't stand out from the crowd by saying "climate change is man made and we need to do something about it" (You along with 97% of professional opinion). However taking the opposite opinion you do and you'll have a sizeable following from people who watch "science on you tube".

My bad

he comes across as being very narcissistic, i wonder what disorders he has......

I agree with a lot of his opinions but not all. This statement about not caring about Ukraine pissed me off. I do care about Ukrainians and would never accept any appeasement to the Russian mafia. He always spouts on about how brutal the Russians are, why the hell would he think treating with them and conceding is a good idea?

I booked tickets to see him in sept I'm seriously considering cancelling them. His daughter is a brain washed one trick pony too from listening to her.

What is going on with his daughter Makila?

After only a few months of seeing a man she describe as a Stalinist with a demon inside she has a child with him and a shotgun wedding. This ends in divorce.

She then dates a man in Romania called Andrew Tate. A very colourful character who has been accused of trafficking sex workers.

And now she has just got engaged to a man that claims to be a devout Christian and has the same first name as her father.

Daddy issues?

if millions of men and boys who do not read or attend philosophy suddenly flock to one and fill forums with "he's a high qualified bla bla" then by all means enjoy but be wary and suspicious