But then Peterson adds that “hundred thousand Shakespeares wrote the Bible”… sure buddy.
My atheist father told me the same thing when I was 7. You can read the bible as literature and get valuable true insights about life? Yeah, obviously. It seemed to me that (just going by the podcast) Peterson mainly said some stuff that’s fairly obvious punctuated by absurd hyperbole…
The paper also notes that it’s a trend in all fields, and their findings also point to trends re: citing books rather than papers, as well as a sort of democratization of academia, with knowledge being less centralized than before, complicating the stats.Īfter listening to this podcast I’m confused by the Peterson Phenomenon. Everyone agreed that she should not have been reprimanded.įinally, if you read the paper that Jordan B Peterson cites re: humanities papers ( ), you’ll see that he’s not referring to there being no citations in the papers (which is what many assumed was the case), but that 80 % of humanities papers went uncited in the years following their publication (as in nobody was using them to support their research). So Jordan B Peterson basically went out of his way to make a point about his insistence on undermining the humanity and dignity of people who have the audacity of not conforming to traditional gender identities.Īlso worth mentioning that the disciplinary action that Lindsay Shepherd unfortunately endured at Wilfrid Laurier University was widely regarded as inappropriate and ridiculous in the Canadian media. Further, bill C-16 would not apply to universities. My son (also a regular listener) and I some times joke that we got our Masters in Economics from your old school, George Mason, and are now working on PhD’s from Stanford.įor a little context, that Russ unfortunately failed to explore, according to most experts, bill C-16 would not require anyone to use someone’s preferred gender pronouns. Once again Russ keep up the good work with EconTalk. Peterson to imply that Keynes advocated a policy of current gratification. At the Cocktail party in question, someone told Keynes, that in the long-run he had been right. By the mid-1920’s, Germany’s banks had indeed collapsed as Keynes had predicted. This bold move in the markets resulted in total loss, with Keynes forced into bankruptcy. As you probably know, Russ, Keynes followed his insights published in “The Economic Consequences of the Peace” by shorting German bank shares in 1918-19. My understanding is that the phrase was a throw-away line by Keynes at a cocktail party in the 1920’s. Peterson seemed to put down Keynes for the well-known quote that “in the long run we are all dead”.
Thanks to you Russ, I will now follow-up on you interview by looking into his work. As someone who does not spend much time on UTube, I did not have him on my radar prior to this EconTalk interview. There is hope in the intellectual swamp of postmodernism permeating academia more prophets like shall arise.Īnother very thoughtful and intellectual interview with Jordan Peterson. If book is as good as some of his youtube work some of the lessons will be applied in raising of my future progeny. My daughter bought his book as a Valentine gift to her fiance. Now I am sharing these findings with my friends. Now I am finally starting to identify the snake in my souls garden. Then I stumbled on youtube on Dr Peterson work in the first 10 hours of sifting thru his lectures I got coherent answer what is wrong with them and more importantly what was wrong with me.
I failed to formulate cogent answer to deep reason why I have had this phobia toward progressive mindset and revulsion toward political correctness. I wondered and I tried understand, why they disturbed me so much? I tried to analyze for years what was a cause that generated that willful blindness to evil in so called intellectuals. Here in America and in EU I suffered perpetual annoyance when forced to interact with apologists and past enablers of that horrid systems, by these pretentious academics acting as the useful idiots of now dead masters. I have lived at the tailend of collapse of marxist totalitarian ideas in the Eastern Europe. Last night I was planning to write a convincing letter of exhortation to Russ, to look into Dr Peterson - the emerging “Father Figure” on internet figure phenomenon and his work in light of his recent stellar ascent. What a philosophica delight.! Russ interviewing Jordan.
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