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.
The recent Joe Rogan podcast with Ted Nugent was VERY interesting also. Rogan fights moving to the right of things tooth & nail but because he’s very intelligent & strives to be honest with himself. So it’s been interesting watching him absorb & process what folks like Jordan & Nugent & others are saying that destroys the false narratives of the progressive left. He recognize the fallacies of the left but his own indoctrination in left thinking is still impeding his intellectual progress, IMO.
In any case, I love his podcast. He is 100% fair to every guest he has on the show.
Scott Adams awoke me to the power of psychology in understanding politics. And I continue to follow him.
But whereas Scott is a regular guy who likes to joke around, Peterson is a more melancholy guy who's deadly serious almost all the time. But it's easy to warm to the guy because he's amazing at communicating tough subjects.
Peterson understands psychology at a very deep level because he's read vociferously and is clinical psychologist who's worked with all sorts of people from the highly depressed/disfunctional to the highly successful.
His great strength is to bring academic scholarship to the masses of thinking people. Throughout my life and my years in schooling, I can't remember a professor with such a deep understanding of the human condition -- and somebody who makes the subject so interesting.
In sometimes goes off on deep tangents that strain the limits of understanding. But even then, you get the sense he's struggling to explain at ideas that have not made the light of day quite yet.
There are dozens of lectures on YouTube of him. So far, every one of them has brought me insights.
A tip I think not many people know: You can now very quickly (in seconds) convert a YouTube video to an MP3 audio for download to your phone or podcast device.
Type mp3 youtube in Google and click the "converter" link. The site is www.onlinevideoconverter.com.