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I simply don't have time to engage with his lectures. I've seen all the summaries and they're just something I don't need. Thankfully. What I do see is him con
by rusk 9y ago
I simply don't have time to engage with his lectures. I've seen all the summaries and they're just something I don't need. Thankfully.
What I do see is him continuously parading around the podcast circuit and the polarised discussion online about him.
My gut reaction when I heard him on Joe Rogan was one of disgust, while quietly finding I actually agree with a lot of what he says. He's a guy who has access to "truth" (in the pragmatic, William James sense) that many of his attackers do not.
I don't believe he's on the level of any of those people you've put up him up alongside. I think he draws on their work, mediates and applies their ideas as a clinical psychologist does.
Clever, no doubt, and with a message that is undoubtedly of value to many, and certainly making a lot of money at it too.
- rwj 9y agoIf you agree with some of the things he says, why are you disgusted?
- rusk 9y agoThe term is called "Dissonance". It's okay and quite normal to have conflicting emotions about things. To have the head and heart in conflict. Peterson himself would say this is part of the process of getting to the truth. If you're just courting "comfortable" ideas all the time you'll get nowhere.
- psyc 9y ago>> I simply don't have time to engage with his lectures. I've seen all the summaries and they're just something I don't need. Then it's easier to understand how you came by your opinions of him. Quite a bit harder, if you'll excuse me, to understand why you wrote more statements about him than anyone else in the thread, though. >> I don't believe he's on the level of any of those people you've put up him up alongside. I agree with this 100% (and would bet my entire net worth that Peterson does too), did not intend to give that impression at all, and edited my comment to reflect that.
- rusk 9y ago> Quite a but harder, if you'll excuse me, to understand why you wrote more statements about him than anyone else in the thread, though. Fair enough. If he wasn't in my face everywhere I turned I wouldn't have had to perform such extensive meta-analysis of his epistemology. The problem with Peterson is that it's this aspect of him that's cloudy, and which frightens some people. His actual "teachings" as it were aren't really that interesting to me, but I fully support the pragmatic approach to self-help he promulgates.