Jordan Peterson is ultimately an intelligent individual. However, I think he is in the throes of a long-term nervous breakdown that he's never really recovered from. The quick mood changes, sudden emotional outbursts and general "out to get me" paranoia are all classic examples of that. Add on his previously admitted drug addictions, and addiction to social media and constant need to engage with it, despite his insistence on the opposite, and you have a huge clusterfuck of a situation for a very unstable individual.
His calls to de-anonymize the internet are both horrifying and symptomatic of his psychological issues. He might call them "troll-demons", Andrew Tate called them "The Matrix", and other people just call them haters, trolls, or learn to ignore them completely. And if he were in a better mental state, he would realize that he's calling for the complete opposite of what he claims to stand for. In the modern "cancel culture" world where you can be fired from your job, lose your livelihood, or even be murdered in certain places for saying the wrong thing, calling for the public outing of everyone or the segregation of opinions over your own hurt feelings is downright ludicrous and asinine. Thats no better than Fidel Trudeau trying to pull his psychology credentials from him for going against the current Canadian Communist Regime. The thing about JP is that he is privileged enough to where he doesn't really have to worry about the repercussions of "wrongthink" to the degree that the average person does. If he loses a couple of speaking engagements over a troon's hurt feelings, he can always make it up another time. But if someone on the KF is outed in real life for saying "Nigger Faggot" they might lose their home, job, spouse, kids. etc. Even a 2-tiered system of realnvs anonymous identities would effectively segregate the internet to a "ruling class" and "peasant class". We've already seen that on Twitter where until very recently, the Blue Checkmark
was the account of someone who
held the correct opinions and bribed the admins for favouritism was properly verified and held to a higher standard of authenticity vs. any anonymous person. And even in a freely available forum, people are naturally averse to posting unfiltered thoughts under their real names. I remember when the Gawker media sites forced logins under Facebook Twitter or other pseudo-authentic accounts and the site traffic dropped considerably.
The internet didn't make me dumber, more degenerate, or meaner. I think people give way too much shit about the lives of others. The internet vastly improved my life, I think I wouldn't be even 10% of what I'm nowadays without the internet. I live in a small city in a third-world country and I have learned about programming, 3d modeling - even made my own game from scratch - had access to the best resources about music theory you can imagine, learned English, watched a shitton of old and classic films, discovered music I never knew existed, and so on. It's a world of culture and learning that would be absolutely impossible for me otherwise.
I honestly feel insulted when people look at it decades ago and proclaim life was so much better than right now. Sometimes I feel these people wish I remained a fucking retarded ignorant peasant. I take it personally every time. At the end of the day, it's just good old elitism and classism.
The internet is both the greatest invention and the worst enemy of our modern day culture. As you stated, when held to it's ideals, it is an excellent opportunity for learning, connecting with other people, and advancing humanity as a whole. But on the other hand, government and corporate interests are ruining it as well, just like everything else that they touch. Once people with power and money realized that there was money and control, it was game over. Now we're in the throes of shadowbanning, crusades against "misinformation" which is just a code word for wrongthink against whoever is in power, and corporate governance where companies like Apple or Monsanto can greenwash their images, showing commercials of happy people and making empty platitudes about how theyre "carbon neutral" and "reinvesting in the future of earth". Meanwhile,
Nestle is sucking public aquifers dry while people and agriculture go thirsty,
DuPont has literally poisoned the entire world, and
child slave labor in horrific conditions is used for Lithium-ion battery production. But don't you
DARE say a "Bad Word
" on the internet lest you offend someone and get banned from some social media platform.
Sometimes he comes off like a guy who is being heavily blackmailed over some dark and terrible secret, sounds insane, probably true etc.
I wouldn't necessarily say that JP is being blackmailed, but more like he knows who butters his bread, so he toes the line where necessary. Since he no longer has to depend on his psychology degree for his livelihood, he can (rightfully) publicly stand up to and call out the Canadian
dictatorship government for their overreach and borderline dystopian "reeducation" efforts against him. But since he's now on the DW payroll, he's simping for the (((JEWS))) and defending Israel against all real and perceived transgressions.
Joe Rogan poses as a critic, but at most he offers approved, licensed safe semi dissidence. The Matt Walsh interview, that he's pushed so hard on Spotify says as much.
The funny thing about the Matt Walsh interview on JRE was that Joe didn't even push him with any really hard questions. Joe simply asking Matt Walsh to justify his religious beliefs for marriage and posting high school debate team level questions caused his entire stance to crumble like a newly constructed Chinese skyscraper. And the beauty of the whole thing was that you could see Matt realised it was happening in real-time as well. I tend to agree with and respect MW when he rails against trannies and pedos, and the general degenerate faggotry that is rampant in modern culture, but he definitely deserved the L in this situation.
