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> Jordan Peterson’s popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape… Yes, but that only proves he's the best public intell

> Jordan Peterson’s popularity is the sign of a deeply impoverished political and intellectual landscape… Yes, but that only proves he's the best public intellectual. In a world where everyone else is worse, why would you not listen to him. The article also says he speaks "as unintelligibly as possible", which couldn't be further from truth, so i don't know if it could be trusted. Halfway in the page it becomes obvious it's a hit piece to promote the author's book. I agree that peterson is overrated, but not for those reasons.

ForHackernews 8y ago
> Halfway in the page it becomes obvious it's a hit piece to promote the author's book. Uh... that's a joke. FTA: > By the way, an amusing aside: a few years ago my colleague Oren Nimni and I wrote a parody of nonsensical academic grand theory called Blueprints for a Sparkling Tomorrow... I'm not sure what to make of your inability to distinguish a parody of Grand Theory hucksterism from the real thing. Is this some kind of meta-commentary?
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- buboard 8y ago
  > that's a joke. So ? it's still a hit piece that ridicules the same stuff. Probably not for promotion though, i dont think anyone would want to buy it. Apart from vague opinionated irony , there is little in arguments here, and from my skim reading many are false (such as he talks unintelligibly)