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« Reply #180 on: February 22, 2018, 08:11:17 PM »


The whole pod, more than two hours long, but chuck full of info.
This is a really good interview.
I watched this last night while half asleep and didnt hear 2% of what was said, worth re-listening to?
If you find human evolution/evolutionary biology fascinating like I do it’s worth a listen. If not then you can pass on it.

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« Reply #181 on: February 22, 2018, 09:59:02 PM »
I am, so i'll listen in traffic today i guess :goldberg

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« Reply #182 on: February 22, 2018, 10:04:21 PM »
Don't fuck with my thread asshole

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Re: The Intellectual Dank Wad [ ot ] Mandark doesn't read
« Reply #183 on: February 22, 2018, 10:09:07 PM »
Just where does that hostility come from?
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Re: The Intellectual Dank Wad [ ot ] Mandark doesn't read
« Reply #184 on: February 22, 2018, 10:13:28 PM »
They changed the title of the thread to Mandark's suggestion. I changed it back.

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« Reply #185 on: February 22, 2018, 10:17:39 PM »
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Re: The Intellectual Wank Dad [ ot ] Mandark doesn't read
« Reply #186 on: February 22, 2018, 10:21:26 PM »
don't tell me what to do you're not my real dad
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Re: The Intellectual Wank Dad [ ot ] Mandark doesn't read
« Reply #187 on: February 22, 2018, 10:24:49 PM »
don't tell me what to do you're not my real dad

I would never want the blame for that.

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Re: The Intellectual Dank Wad [ ot ] Mandark doesn't read
« Reply #188 on: February 22, 2018, 10:31:40 PM »
Seriously. If you can't handle me then log out Rumbler.

It's amazing how often you guys are ready to burn the forum down just to attack me. You keep this up and we get another ban etiolate thread. You guys turn into everything you made the forum not to be just because one poster doesn't put up with the bullshit from the worst here.


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Re: The Intellectual Dank Wad [ ot ] Mandark doesn't read
« Reply #190 on: February 22, 2018, 10:45:17 PM »
Seriously. If you can't handle me then log out Rumbler.

It's amazing how often you guys are ready to burn the forum down just to attack me. You keep this up and we get another ban etiolate thread. You guys turn into everything you made the forum not to be just because one poster doesn't put up with the bullshit from the worst here.

You are a ceaseless pussy lmfao

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Re: The Intellectual Dank Wad [ ot ] Mandark doesn't read
« Reply #191 on: February 22, 2018, 10:53:14 PM »
???

I get that you get butthurt, but that one didn't make sense.

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« Reply #192 on: February 22, 2018, 10:54:25 PM »
Back on topic:

Double Weinstein



Yeah the majority of these are going to be long. They're good for morning coffee, jog or workout.

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Re: The Intellectual Wank Dad [ ot ] Mandark doesn't read
« Reply #193 on: February 22, 2018, 11:09:02 PM »
Eric Weinstein looks like a late 80s wrestler at the end of a long career

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« Reply #194 on: February 22, 2018, 11:09:13 PM »
(30 for 30 voice) What if I told you... Jordan Peterson thinks ancient Egyptian is depicting DNA?

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« Reply #195 on: February 22, 2018, 11:46:54 PM »
Eric Weinstein looks like a late 80s wrestler at the end of a long career

What would be his wrasslin name? I imagine he wrestled with that freaky curly hair in this scenario.

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« Reply #196 on: February 22, 2018, 11:50:19 PM »
Since it's the 80s, probably Ric the Rabbi :doge

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« Reply #197 on: February 22, 2018, 11:59:52 PM »
The Hasidic Hercules

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« Reply #198 on: February 23, 2018, 12:05:58 AM »
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« Reply #199 on: February 23, 2018, 12:16:39 AM »
LOL IF YOU CANT HANDLE ME LOG OUT!

Holy shit like I dunno what color it is but you need a pill fo sho

Shit was funny, in a long tradition of thread title changes. Light hearted. Please understand.

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« Reply #200 on: February 23, 2018, 12:18:09 AM »
I'm not the one losing it and fucking with people's threads.

Send your chill pills to GR

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« Reply #201 on: February 23, 2018, 12:19:15 AM »
This is the most out of touch I’ve seen you. Why are you freaking out over a thread title?

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« Reply #202 on: February 23, 2018, 12:31:25 AM »
I have a running theory that Etiolate is Jesus, sent by God to give everyone their Ls. And we fuck with his thread for, what - thirty likes?
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« Reply #203 on: February 23, 2018, 12:33:19 AM »
Because it's about more than a threat title. People have been dogpiling Cindi tonight. Mandark is losing it because I called him out. Rumbler is messing witht he thread title as some sort of sad wolf pack behavior.

Everyone else is fine having fun except for a few people who are taking it personal and asking people to change their name so they can mock them more or change thread titles to mock those that threaten them.

Sometimes the bullying stuff here goes too far and people need to realize where the line is. Tonight, the bully mentality juiced up. Not sure if this is from cream posting or just the usual vile nature seeping out.  I think you should ponder why anyone giving pushback to the behavior makes you think they need to chill. 

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« Reply #204 on: February 23, 2018, 12:34:57 AM »
lol you have such a complex about Mandark

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« Reply #205 on: February 23, 2018, 12:42:52 AM »
Because it's about more than a threat title. People have been dogpiling Cindi tonight. Mandark is losing it because I called him out. Rumbler is messing witht he thread title as some sort of sad wolf pack behavior.

Everyone else is fine having fun except for a few people who are taking it personal and asking people to change their name so they can mock them more or change thread titles to mock those that threaten them.

Sometimes the bullying stuff here goes too far and people need to realize where the line is. Tonight, the bully mentality juiced up. Not sure if this is from cream posting or just the usual vile nature seeping out.  I think you should ponder why anyone giving pushback to the behavior makes you think they need to chill. 

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« Reply #206 on: February 23, 2018, 12:43:53 AM »
???

I get that you get butthurt, but that one didn't make sense.

Your constant victim complex is just the funniest thing in the world. You're such a sensitive humorless little bitch that you can't even let a joke title fly :lol

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« Reply #207 on: February 23, 2018, 12:47:17 AM »

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« Reply #208 on: February 23, 2018, 12:48:29 AM »
Because it's about more than a threat title. People have been dogpiling Cindi tonight. Mandark is losing it because I called him out. Rumbler is messing witht he thread title as some sort of sad wolf pack behavior.

Everyone else is fine having fun except for a few people who are taking it personal and asking people to change their name so they can mock them more or change thread titles to mock those that threaten them.

Sometimes the bullying stuff here goes too far and people need to realize where the line is. Tonight, the bully mentality juiced up. Not sure if this is from cream posting or just the usual vile nature seeping out.  I think you should ponder why anyone giving pushback to the behavior makes you think they need to chill.

Think that’s you, bro

I don’t even know who cream is. Cindi riling peeps up ain’t new. Thread title change was hilarious. It’s jokes. 

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« Reply #209 on: February 23, 2018, 12:48:45 AM »
I'm such an angry tyrant that I left in place etiolate's edit changing the title to "Great Rumbler's Child Porn Stash." :lol
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« Reply #210 on: February 23, 2018, 12:49:22 AM »
I take more shit than anyone. I only say chill when its becoming pathological with some of you.

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« Reply #211 on: February 23, 2018, 12:51:23 AM »
I'm such an angry tyrant that I left in place etiolate's edit changing the title to "Great Rumbler's Child Porn Stash." :lol
LMAO I didn't even notice that. It's like when a little kid gets put in time out and starts scribbling on the walls cuz it's the only power he has

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« Reply #212 on: February 23, 2018, 12:51:41 AM »
I take more shit than anyone. I only say chill when its becoming pathological with some of you.
Oh please you're a condescending prick all the time you don't get to complain about others being mean

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« Reply #213 on: February 23, 2018, 04:50:08 AM »
I take more shit than anyone. I only say chill when its becoming pathological with some of you.
Oh please you're a condescending prick all the time

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« Reply #214 on: February 23, 2018, 05:05:19 AM »
I'm such an angry tyrant that I left in place etiolate's edit changing the title to "Great Rumbler's Child Porn Stash." :lol

"I'm going to accuse you of being a pedophile because you changed my thread title"
                   - a totally normal, well-adjusted and definitely not triggered person

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« Reply #215 on: February 23, 2018, 05:33:44 AM »
Any particular work you'd point to? Extending this to Shosta as well. I wanna see what it was that blew your mind, if you don't mind me boiling the pathos down to something so pithy. :doge

No hour(s)-long videos, please. Not unless there's a transcript.
pls read this whole thing. I hate boring people and like to keep things short but I'm opening up quite a bit here.

Some background: I'm an uneducated person. I don't have a lot of exposure to philosophy. So for instance, I used to think Nietzsche invented Nihilism and that was just what he believed. Didn't know anything about Jung, even though we covered a little bit of him in my literature class in highschool. So because Jordan Peterson is primarily a professor of psychology, and a pretty good one, and also an engaging public speaker, he's got all these full length psychology courses uploaded onto Youtube, many of which (like the course on personality) are really fascinating in their own right but even more so because (like any great professor will do) intersperses or combines the content with useful or thought provoking additions. (Good example that comes to mind was his lecture on disgust as a basic emotion that arises from conscientiousness and shows how conservatism is like a sociological immune system which would literally keep people safe from disease. He expands on this by demonstrating the reliance on disease and purification as a metaphor in Nazi Germany and then capstones the lecture with the Parasite Stress Hypothesis, which is that the prevalence of infectious diseases in a region is a strong predictor for the emergence of authoritarian governments.) And he'll do this while also integrating moral philosophy (as it arises from basic psychological study) and namedropping philosophers and ideas. So in this way he really is the stupid man's smart man but that's actually quite the compliment in my opinion because he's exposed me to stuff I never would have discovered otherwise.

That's like 60% of what he does. But the stuff that straight-shook-me-breh was his bible lectures. Etiolate's right about this: since he's a long form presenter and some of the ideas are pretty involved (not complex, mind you, just consisting of a lot of steps) you're not going to get a good "bite sized summary" but I can try to tell you what got me.

Here's the one video I want you to watch. You can just listen to 30-45 minutes of it but I'd like you to at least give it that much.


The short of it: JP was really enamored with Jung's idea of the collective unconscious. The fact that there are archetypes that recur across all of human mythology and dreams was proof that most people share a deep underlying psychology, and this represented a kind of accumulated knowledge developed over hundreds of millions of years of evolution. If you think about information, there's the set of all the stuff we don't know or understand, and then there's all the knowledge we can articulate because we speak and have language, but in between the two there's knowledge that we know and act out but can't articulate (as simple as jumping away from snakes or as complex as someone is lying to us or the insecurity that we think we're frauds in our work).

And people who write stories or make music or paint paintings watch people, over time, sort of like long-exposure photography, and re-represent those behaviors in their work after having distilled it through their own psychologies, thus encoding that fundamental knowledge about humanity in their work, which is why archetypes can be observed at all. So they're basically like mystics or seers, sitting on the boundary of knowledge and relaying that information back to normal society. Which is why we value art at all, you know, because it teaches people about themselves, and anyone who's been touched by art knows that deep down.

And so Jordan takes that idea and says, well, the Bible is thousands of years old, and the joint work of hundreds, maybe thousands of people who have changed it incrementally over time, and it's like the ultimate mythology which has underscored western civilization. And since that's true, it's probably worth deconstructing for its collective observations about humankind. And they're not just observations, actually. They really represent truths about us in a profound way, in the sense that they contain fairly sophisticated theses about the nature of human consciousness, and individuality, and morality, much in the same way that something like the hero's journey represents the personal struggle against a crisis and the eventual rebirth and reconstitution of the psyche. So they're metaphysical truths.



What was it in this for me that blew my mind? Fucking everything, dude. Stream incoming: I'm a materialist, atheist, hedonist, moral relativist. I don't care about religion. Knowledge for me is hard empirical science. I'd never considered before that mythology or literature of all things could be a source of knowledge, or that truth could be encoded in every single one of us literally in our DNA or reflected through society, which is some crazy Spinoza-level monism. Just saying something like "artists are mystics" is straight up new age nonsense I would have never said before but here I am saying it. And never had I considered there to be a universal human morality because, you know, that's not self evident at all, especially when you don't believe in God, it's everything goes, man, but here I am now believing in a universal morality determined and discovered by evolution itself and baked right into our social structures and laws. And I never considered that ideologies of all kinds, like political ones especially but even stuff as simple as environmentalism and veganism, were primitive unsophisticated religions and rituals that replaced Christianity as a sophisticated value system, because we are hardwired to codify and act out and ahdere to value systems by virtue of being social creatures. Here I am saying I'm not religious and yet I'm revering Mother Earth just like a Wiccan would. And in the psychological lectures, you know, the idea that liberals and conservatives are just people of different biologically pre-determined psychological temperaments that serve important sociological purpose blows my mind too. It's one thing to respect other (common) political views because you're "nice" and "empathetic", which is arbitrary and takes some training, it's another thing entirely when the entire success of your society has been predicated on the interdependence of the full diversity of the personality spectrum and everyone needs everyone else or else society falls apart and dies. My whole goddamned worldview has been turned upside down in the span of a few hours of cumulative videos and it's affected my entire identity to its core.

So in short, Peterson tells the story of why we are through psychology, literature, and evolution. He offers people a positive, constructive philosophy of what to do informed by history, humanism, rationalism, and individuality (and this is so much different from everything I'd ever learned, which was negative and tore things down, for good reasons of course, like post-structuralism, and atheism, and moral relativism). And he advocates for an intentional society, which preserves the good stuff in the old value structure (traditionalism, perhaps?), and deepens and develops it for the future (because God is dead but we still need values or else communism kills 100 million people). And it's not surprising to me at all that hungrynoob had a fucking religious experience because of this guy. People are so hungry for this stuff, in our cold, dead, rational world. And they want answers for who they are and what they should do, because nobody's telling them, and there's so much power in a positive and human centric philosophy that doesn't require a tyrant living in the sky. And I can honestly say I felt the exact same thing.
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« Reply #216 on: February 23, 2018, 08:46:15 AM »
Bookmarked for later.

OK, thank you. I understand better now.

You might enjoy this series:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilisation_(TV_series)
All parts seem to be readily available on Youtube.
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« Reply #217 on: February 23, 2018, 05:41:57 PM »
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this obv wasn’t directed at me but if y’all don’t mind I’d like to try to give a thoughtful response because this is an honest post, and I feel like I could add something to the conversation.
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conservatism is like a sociological immune system which would literally keep people safe from disease

And in the psychological lectures, you know, the idea that liberals and conservatives are just people of different biologically pre-determined psychological temperaments that serve important sociological purpose blows my mind too. It's one thing to respect other (common) political views because you're "nice" and "empathetic", which is arbitrary and takes some training, it's another thing entirely when the entire success of your society has been predicated on the interdependence of the full diversity of the personality spectrum and everyone needs everyone else or else society falls apart and dies.
This is functionalism, specifically the kind that treats in organic metaphors. It has all the attendant pitfalls of functionalism, viz. struggles to explain change; deliberate between external and internal causation; and, since society is essentially just the name we give the large aggregation of means-end relationships, where culture (among other things) is the means, we’ve assumed the ends as given (which i assume for Peterson is going to be simple perpetuation of the ‘organism’). I don’t mean to give an overwhelmingly negative picture of this as a schema, functionalism has its proponents in the social sciences (although its organic variety is definitely passé), but it is one among several lenses to view ‘the social’.

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And he'll do this while also integrating moral philosophy (as it arises from basic psychological study)
could you elaborate on this? Point out where he talks about this?

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So in this way he really is the stupid man's smart man
i agree, in both a) the non-pejorative sense that it’s important to have gateways, so to speak, into academic discussions, especially ones which impinge on deeply felt needs in everyday, lived experience (more on that below) and b) the pejorative sense that we should be demanding a better gateway.

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he's exposed me to stuff I never would have discovered otherwise.
this is great! It’s exactly what you want out of a gateway, provided you keep reading. Just with respect to philosophy, if you took Peterson at his word, you’d come away with a gross misunderstanding or eclipsed view of: Newton, Nietzsche, the American Pragmatists, Heidegger, and French poststructuralism. Ditto any contemporary work done in phil of sci, phil of the social sciences or history of phil because he largely doesn’t engage with any of it. Again, this isn’t absolutely damning. Selective readings, or even outright misreadings, can still be philosophically productive (and happen fairly frequently)*, but, at least in my estimation, they shouldn’t determine our stances towards the sources in question.

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What was it in this for me that blew my mind?...I'm a materialist, atheist, hedonist, moral relativist. I don't care about religion. Knowledge for me is hard empirical science. I'd never considered before that mythology or literature of all things could be a source of knowledge, or that truth could be encoded in every single one of us literally in our DNA or reflected through society, which is some crazy Spinoza-level monism. Just saying something like "artists are mystics" is straight up new age nonsense I would have never said before but here I am saying it. And never had I considered there to be a universal human morality because, you know, that's not self evident at all, especially when you don't believe in God, it's everything goes, man, but here I am now believing in a universal morality determined and discovered by evolution itself and baked right into our social structures and laws. And I never considered that ideologies of all kinds, like political ones especially but even stuff as simple as environmentalism and veganism, were primitive unsophisticated religions and rituals that replaced Christianity as a sophisticated value system, because we are hardwired to codify and act out and ahdere to value systems by virtue of being social creatures. Here I am saying I'm not religious and yet I'm revering Mother Earth just like a Wiccan would.
theres a lot here, but where I’d like to start is the descriptors you outline initially. What follows is supposed to be ideal typical, I’m not saying this is what you experienced exactly. We start with a worldview that takes a (at the risk of sounding blunt) bastardized view of Newtonian mechanics as an exhaustive ontological description of the world. The world is at bottom a physical process of things bouncing off each other in predictable patterns; if we knew the sum total of things and their causes at any initial point of origin, we’d successfully be able to predict every resulting thing and cause from that point, including human activity. What’s more, there is no transcendent end or good towards which we should be orienting ourselves. Life doesn’t have any objective meaning beyond which we give it; and we experience this process of meaning-defining as rational deliberation but as we already know, this is just another thing that can be reduced to collisions between physical objects happening at some microscopic level (which level? tbd; it’s pretty much causal factors all the way down). So what we’re left with is self-interested eudaemonic accumulation until we die and return to nothing.

It’s not hard to see how someone can feel caged in by this worldview, and I think that goes to explain in large measure how liberated someone can feel when they shake it, or something like it, off -as you mentioned how hungrynoob, and possibly you yourself, felt. Suddenly, the world has meaning again, it’s re-enchanted vis-à-vis myth being made non-trivial, there are real values to strive/fight for and all of this is an intrinsic part of being human so there’s no need to experience a kind of schizophrenia when intentions clash with worldview. But I want to point out how this liberation was purchased. Myth was rescued, but only at the expense of completely naturalizing it. Everything gets shoved into a Darwinian framework even though it’s not clear why we should take ‘natural selection in a zero sum competitive environment’ as our guiding metanarrative. The good/end ascribed to what it is to be human is self-perpetuation, so not only have we not gotten rid of the anxiety-causing specter of the will to power, but now we have to contend with it in the cultural sphere, too. So it seems if the goal was to eliminate “the malaise of modernity” we haven’t gotten any closer to solving that problem.

Which would be a bummer if we didn’t recognize that the either/or we’ve outlined above isn’t actually the Sophie’s choice we made it out to be. It isn’t at all settled that the world is atomically physical in the way a certain understanding of Newtonian mechanics describes or that any endeavor outside the domain of empirical science wasn’t worthwhile (neither newton, nor the most logical of the postivists thought this). It isn’t settled that myth needs to be interpreted genetically in order to do the most justice to it (although I can think of two off the top of my head, cassirer and blumenberg, that do exactly this, just better than Peterson). And it isn’t settled that there is no ethical yardstick by which man is obligated to measure himself -the majoritarian stance in meta ethics is moral realism and the anti-realist position doesn’t necessarily imply relativism. That all of this is contained in scholarship with such a huge barrier to entry -in terms financial, time-wise, effort-inducing, etc.- constitutes a legitimate tragicomedy. And...

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People are so hungry for this stuff, in our cold, dead, rational world. And they want answers for who they are and what they should do, because nobody's telling them, and there's so much power in a positive and human centric philosophy that doesn't require a tyrant living in the sky. And I can honestly say I felt the exact same thing.
i think the fact that the person who has been one of the most successful at speaking to and capitalizing on this very real felt need did so publicly, freely, and accessibly speaks volumes.


*although I do think that in Peterson’s case since his narrative history of phil is tied so closely to his political project, the latter is undermined if we recognize the former for what it is, highly tendentious at best.

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« Reply #218 on: February 23, 2018, 06:43:06 PM »
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Everyone else is fine having fun except for a few people who are taking it personal and asking people to change their name so they can mock them more or change thread titles to mock those that threaten them.

Literal Nazis. :ohhh

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« Reply #219 on: February 23, 2018, 07:02:18 PM »


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« Reply #220 on: February 27, 2018, 02:04:55 PM »
This is the guy from the OP. Went over his Blue Church idea. I feel like he struggles to relate his idea, but if you've already gotten to the destination then it's a bit easier to see what he's getting at.



The guy himself is a harvard law guy who was a part of the boom and bust of the internett bubble. Started up mp3.com, was co-founder and CEO of divx.

I am curious if his Blue Church is the same thing as Eric Weinstein's TIM. (Tech, Information(which includes intel agencies), Media)

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« Reply #221 on: February 27, 2018, 04:02:18 PM »


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« Reply #222 on: February 27, 2018, 04:21:31 PM »
i sure hope theres a peterson zizek debate on youtube.

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« Reply #223 on: February 28, 2018, 06:37:34 AM »
it's so sad to see slavoj like this, regularly being coherent and on-topic

i just hope whatever terminal illness he's coming to the end of is painless for him

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« Reply #225 on: March 02, 2018, 01:17:36 AM »
https://twitter.com/PrettyBadLefty/status/969341599086936065
Takes like 5 minutes of looking at this guy's twitter to know he is an idiot himself.


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« Reply #227 on: March 02, 2018, 04:15:36 PM »
it's so sad to see slavoj like this, regularly being coherent and on-topic

i just hope whatever terminal illness he's coming to the end of is painless for him


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« Reply #228 on: March 03, 2018, 06:12:51 PM »


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« Reply #230 on: March 04, 2018, 06:15:09 PM »
i saw "intellectual" in the thread title, then noted etoilet started it, and sure enough: jordan peterson. i mean, i feel like i wasted my time confirming it.

:doge

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« Reply #231 on: March 04, 2018, 08:34:47 PM »
Yet here you are posting.

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« Reply #232 on: March 04, 2018, 10:57:03 PM »
Yet here you are posting.

And this is how third graders respond. :crowdlaff

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« Reply #233 on: March 04, 2018, 11:17:11 PM »
I might be more embarrassed for people defending goofiness like the lipstick argument than getting a tat.

Cause I feel the best possible case for Peterson would involve some kind of caveat about separating his more rigorous work* from his off-the-cuff bullshit, but from what I've seen hungrynoob is pretty representative of the fandom in terms of going to bat for the whole oeuvre.

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« Reply #234 on: March 04, 2018, 11:46:30 PM »

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« Reply #235 on: March 05, 2018, 01:56:14 AM »
I'm not exactly sure what a soyboi is, but if I had to describe one, I'd say "Jordan Peterson". I can't believe anyone can get riled up by a guy who sounds and comes off as such a gigantic pussy.

I'm sorry sir, but does THIS look/sound like a gigantic pussy to you:


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« Reply #236 on: March 05, 2018, 03:00:48 AM »
This thread is distinguished mentally-challenged listen to this guy instead
https://m.

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« Reply #237 on: March 05, 2018, 03:02:50 AM »
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« Reply #238 on: March 05, 2018, 07:49:30 PM »
Blyth talk is worth checking out, but I don't see the link between heirarchy or gender norms and authoritarianism that he uses in his Trumpetism reasons.  Neither are authoritarian by default. They need a lot of things associated with them to be authoritarian.

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« Reply #239 on: March 06, 2018, 11:50:56 AM »
Blyth talk is worth checking out, but I don't see the link between heirarchy or gender norms and authoritarianism that he uses in his Trumpetism reasons.  Neither are authoritarian by default. They need a lot of things associated with them to be authoritarian.
After an hour and a half of nuclear truth bombs your take away is to single out  a sentence on a slide by pondering the questionable correlation between authoritarianism and misogynists?
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