As if only he has the right to proclaim which morals are proper (talk about pride being a sin!). I’m still trying to wrap my head around “Remember when pride was a sin?” That’s a pretty moralizing statement for him to later berate “woke moralists.” That’s so Peterson: to endlessly complain about others moralizing while he’s moralizing. He’s like someone who just got dumped by his girlfriend and immediately posts how she was a lousy girlfriend the whole time and he’s lucky to be rid of her. Here’s what he tweeted : “Remember when pride was a sin? And Ellen Page just had her breasts removed by a criminal physician.” Twitter suspended him for hate speech, which he responded to by posting a rambling, huffy video ending with Peterson saying “up yours, woke moralists-we’ll see who cancels who!” His anger still not sated, he posted another pseudo-academic video warning of the dangers of Twitter, citing arguments and studies that had been presented years ago-all widely known during the time he was using Twitter to promote himself and screw the dangers. Okay, I know he’s just playing his cranky old grandpa on the porch griping about new-fangled ideas that are sending this culture “to hell in a handbasket.” (Yes, he really used that phrase.) Still, his faux confusion is so lame. Apparently, it’s pretty easy to confuse a Ph.D., bestselling author, and “smartest mind in western civilization” when you give him two choices: Elliot or Ellen. The target of Peterson’s ire that got him suspended is actor Elliot Page ( The Umbrella Academy ), who has so rattled Peterson’s noggin that he’s unable to remember Page’s name.
Your basic blue pill versus red pill scenario from The Matrix : the red pill shows you reality and the blue pill allows you to live in blissful ignorance. Often they are willing to trade away actual freedom, morality, intelligence, and safety in order to feel that way. People want to belong to something that makes them feel free, moral, smart, and safe among like-minded. To be fair, cultish loyalty is common among all religions, political parties, and sports teams. He recently joined fellow conservative gadfly Ben Shapiro’s (see my article about Ben Shapiro here ) Daily Wire+ where their ads describe Peterson as “The smartest mind in western civilization” and “one of the most important minds in history.” That’s taking hype to a dizzying new level, a little like proclaiming Fifty Shades of Gray as the greatest work of literature ever written.Īs to why I refer to his followers as cultish: the essence of a cult member is to embrace someone’s teachings and opinions without rigorous critical analysis. Now his infectious influence has spread even wider, becoming a pandemic of bad ideas and limp thinking. If only Uncle Jordan’s hearty bro advice wasn’t so lazy and superficial. He articulates their self-doubt, anger, and frustration. He is guru to many disaffected young white men who feel under attack just for being born male and white. He has 4 million followers on Instagram, 2.1 million on Twitter, 1.5 million on Facebook, 5 million subscribers on his YouTube channel, and his books have sold millions of copies. Pied Piper Peterson has a large following of cultish devotees that are deeply influenced by his words. (There will be a big surprise when I do.)įirst, we need to understand why when Jordan Peterson says something-even something as juvenile as the tweet that got him suspended-it’s important. I’ll return to the silly reason for all his pearl-clutching theatrics in a moment. In reality, he’s just an embittered crank. He sees himself as a cultural lightning rod absorbing the charged bolts of wokism that is setting ablaze traditional values. “And I would rather die than do that.” Death wasn’t one of the options in Twitters’ terms of service agreement, but Peterson is nothing if not self-importantly melodramatic. “The suspension will not be lifted unless I delete the hateful tweet in question,” he announced. He has announced his bold decision to publicly martyr himself-like all good cult leaders-by choosing death over retracting a recent tweet that got him suspended by Twitter.
Peterson is mad as hell and he’s not going to take it anymore.
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