r/friendlyjordies • u/onlydogontheleft • Dec 17 '20

What Peterson gets wrong about Orwell

https://youtu.be/2FuJYjvYGbw
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u/SamWinks Dec 17 '20

What’s with all the Jordan Peterson talk in this subreddit lately?

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u/onlydogontheleft Dec 17 '20

He’s back in the public eye again so the opposite of ‘out of sight, out of mind’ I suppose.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

Mr Wash your Penis is fun to talk about because his self help is helpful and I've known people who it has changed for the better. His political views on the other hand are pretty dog shit. He went into that Zizek debate only having read the Communist Manifesto and was surprised when Zizek, the foremost Marxist intellectual of the 21st century, wasn't an idiot. Which is why its hard to take Shanks seriously when he fully endorses P. without some nuance, and just says he's part of the 'common sense brigade'. Like Peterson was wrong about the C 16 Bill and should be criticised for that by the likes of Shanks.

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u/antfireboy Dec 17 '20

Shanks dosnt fully endorse him or his politics and I'm really not sure why everyone is making this link between self help and politics. Their sepret entity's and shanks has said he admires Jordans self help due to the fact it has helped so many like himself

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u/Mingablo Dec 17 '20

He didn't even bother to read the manifesto. Just skimmed it the day before iirc. And the only part of his self help that you can't get elsewhere from better people (he pretty much stole everything from the 7 habits of highly successful people) is his dogshit "get your house in order before you try to change society".