A real cultural leader.
Posted on 07/05/2018 4:32:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Trump has also had a huge impact on our culture since he came down that escalator. His ability to form narratives, his ability to see next moves, his ability to tie the Democrat-media complex in knots, his purposefulness, his drive, his relentlessness are all a part of his leadership. More than most understand, he has been one of our greatest leaders in the cultural as well as political realm...
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The other leader to note, is not particularly political. He is, oddly enough, Canadian. He's taught at Ivy League schools. He's a clinical psychologist and teaches in Toronto. He gives two-hour, somewhat stodgy intellectual lectures that get three quarters of a million likes.
I don't hold any of that against him. Neither should you.
Jordan Peterson has had the number-one bestseller on Amazon for virtually half a year. He is majorly followed by huge demographic groups, including Millennials. His humorous anecdote about serotonin levels in lobsters has changed the lives of more millennials than heretofore thought possible.
He has, without intent, caused a quiet revolution in the cultural sphere of the world. He has brought the Millennial male out of the prison of the über-feminists. He has brought sanity to the gender confusion movement. He has destroyed the strongholds of "privilege." He has – gasp! – defended Western civilization readily, and effectively, without even calling it our last, best hope.
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This is why the left is now targeting him. Leftists protest. They write propaganda pieces against his teachings and write (and say) more against him each week. This is because he is effective. He, in a real sense, is setting the captives free. He is, in many ways, as important to the resetting of sanity in the world as Trump.
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How could somebody be “leading the culture” as much as Donald Trump - and I’ve never heard of him?
A real cultural leader.
Vox Day dismantles Peterson in detail. In the unlikely event anyone is interested, you can search YouTube.
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Trump sees life as a struggle too ......... in a little different way than the clinical psychologist.
If this Peterson fellow has "brought the Millennial male out of the prison of the über-feminists" ........ great. That must be one hell of a prison.
-—— his ability to see next moves——
I would argue that the President does not see next moves but already knows next moves because he forced the next move. By planning three moves ahead, it is not difficult to force the next move.
The amazing thing is that he does it every day, some days more than once
Heard him talk in Houston last month. Read his 2nd book. Watched many of his YouTube videos. He is worth listening to. Lots of common sense and logic. Progressives hate him. What’s not to like?
Because he is Canadian most likely. Wife & I discovered Peterson via Joe Rogan’s podcast. Brilliant man who’s using the scientific method to destroy publically the disordered thinking of the left and the right where applicable. His new book is a worthy read, IMO.
I stumbled upon him by accident about a year and a half ago while surfing You Tube. I enjoy listening to his lectures while I work.
Jordan Peterson doesn't get much discussion on Free Republic. This place skews older. On Twitter, Reddit, and Youtube, where the young kids are, he's much more popular.
That seems extraordinarily unlikely from what I’ve seen. JBP can be long winded (he is a university professor after all), but he speaks truth, endeavors to speak truth, opposes those who demand we speak lies.
His dismantling of Postmodernism makes him extraordinarily valuable all by itself, and he’s doing many other useful things.
I don’t know, but I do recommend you watch some Peterson. Highly worthwhile.
I was already familIar with him when this interview came out. He completely dismantles Leftist Brit TV personality Cathy Newman, and she’s so clueless she didn’t even realize what had happened.
Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
Here’s the full version of one of his talks to a college audience:
The Queen’s University Talk: The Rising Tide of Compelled Speech
https://youtu.be/MwdYpMS8s28
In it you see his defense of free speech and opposition to tyranny, you see the reactions of the mostly younger crowd who came to hear him speak, and you see insane screechings of Leftist protestors who came to disrupt his speech. It’s long, but I believe highly worth it.
I’m here to tell you the 2h spent watching these 2 videos should be worth it to you, and I think after watching you will agree.
Joe Rogan! Yes! He’s having an impact that’s hard to quantify- yet. Without Rogan, Peterson wouldn’t be as widely known. He gave and continues to give, Peterson exposure to a massive audience. My son has been listening to Rogan since he started doing podcasts. He learned about Peterson and a host of other people and ideas from Rogan.
Peterson is despised by the left and they’re working to bring him down. I applaud him for speaking his mind, for exposing ideas and points of view most young people have never known. I don’t agree with him always, but the point is getting people to use the brains God gave us and THINK.
From a quote often attributed to George Orwell: "In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act"
Peterson shows the Left the sum total of the content of their "message": Zero.
Whatever.
My millenial sons turned me on to JP, and we often listen during long drives. I’ve even downloaded some podcasts myself for trips.
His discussion with Cathy Newman went viral, and what is almost more interesting is his analysis of that interview. He notes how decent she was before the taping, and then she twisted what he said again and again. He speaks very carefully and dismantled her arguments. He points out how interested she was in power, not in truth. He says something great about how expecting to learn from a discussion is much more interesting than trying to trap someone in certain gender generalizations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
The idea of expecting someone with whom you are talking to know something that you don’t is part of his great 12 Rules for Life which I am reading now.
His ideas on Postmodernism are right on.
His discussion with Stefan Molyneux is also wonderful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcEJr8h_yGM&t=3401s
Freepers should get on board.
He is attacking them from his position as a well-respected rational thinker and authority on mental soundness.
When the Left realizes they have no defense against Peterson, they immediately collapse to ad hominem attacks.
Case in point, Peterson reduces Michael Eric Dyson in debate to where all Dyson has left is to accuse Peterson of being a "mean, mad white man."
Here is a brief clip of that exchange...C-SPAN Video Link.
Yes, I’ve watched that discussion, and don’t disagree. Disagree on the mixed bag. I think he’s having an enormously positive influence on the younger age cohorts.
Trump is 90% instinct, about 10% planning, which he leaves to his staff.
I’ve never seen a president since Reagan whose instincts were almost always right
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