Posted on 04/01/2021 10:50:26 AM PDT by Bloodandgravy
Douglas Murray and I discuss, among other topics, the collapse of grand narratives on the left and the right alike, the potential for the resultant explanatory and motivational void to be filled by more radical ideological ideas, and the dangers posed by the mutual recrimination that all-too-frequently characterizes relationships across the left-right divide.
I might enjoy him if YouTube did not compel me to listen to him. I like to doze off to youtube, but unless I put on chess or something, no matter what I select, the very first video in the queue is Jordan Peterson every time, no matter what. If I fall asleep and a Jordan Peterson video plays, then literally Every single video in the queue becomes Jordan Peterson and only Jordan Peterson. I feel it is a form of compulsion, and I have switched from youtube because of it because it literally enrages me to wake up to 35 hours of exclusively Jordan Peterson because I fell asleep midway through a single video. I miss the heyday when the “algorithm” would pick the most quirky and wonderful things”
Peterson was thin before his clonazepam nightmare, but now he looks emaciated. I did not recognize him at first.
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