/lit/ - Literature

>>18576362
>i see the technological endeavor has dramatically improved peoples lives on a material basis
>i see the religious side provides us with meaning and structure
What a bugman.

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>>18576362
He is a boomer conservative, they exist literally to be punching bags for liberals and progressives. also he made kind of a fool of himself, which is not really his fault, he is evidently kind of mentaly ill.

>>18576362
>Capitalism good
>But Capitalism destroys traditional values
>But Capitalism is still good because... IT JUST IS OKAY????

>>18576362
Because his arguments are always two steps from becoming neo-nazi arguments. Back in the day you could interpret him as a liberal who followed his maxims in a principled way: Not anymore.

>>18576362
Probably because hes a lobotomized grifter of the right

>>18576382
>religious side provides us with meaning its like religious people are constantly on the brink of admitting they don't believe it themselves

He's a midwit who makes a living selling self-help books to adult children.

>>18576362
lol

>>18576362
>can say that I really enjoyed his biblical and archetypal lectures
He's ignorant as fuck, get better sources.

>>18576362
Because they're mentally ill

>>18576382
So does he just pretend that Nietzsche and what he was responding to never happened? God is dead but we can stuff him with straw and use his hide for cargo cult purposes? Behold the power of lukewarm conservatism. Let's just bring x back from the dead so we don't have to deal with change.

>>18576428
He speaks of a 'higher purpose' but that higher purpose is just reason to delude yourself into slaving away for 40 hours a week. Lel.

>>18576362
You can't be a successful white male in todays society without a bunch of angry trannies trying to tear you down. Just look at how much irrational hate Elon Musk gets for using his fortune to put people on mars.

Its not any more complicated than that. These people would genocide you if they could.

>>18576544
Elon catches hate from car guys, who are almost exclusively right leaning.
Peterson is allowed a platform on global media and is praised by the NYT.
Who is your boogeyman here and do they actually exist outside of literal who twitter 'journalists'?

the more interesting question to those who hate him is what would you replace him with, he's clearly fulfilling a need that people have, who/what would do a better job of it

im personally lukewarm towards the lobster man

>>18576571
I think a more genuinely religious person would do a better job but I understand that people might be reluctant to listen to such a person in these times. I find him generally harmless in any case

>>18576571
uhhh Franzen?

>>18576571
>what would you replace him with
The Greeks. More worth in the first 12 lines of the Sentences of Sextus than there is in all of the 12 rules by peter griffinson.

>>18576571
Adolph Hitler, but without the baggage.

His bible stuff and stuff where he talks about psychology is interesting. But his ratio of talking insightfully about things he understands to talking absolute shit about subject he clearly doesn't understand is way out of whack, one of the worst ratios amongst prominent public intellectuals today.

>>18576648
>prominent public intellectuals today
I can't think of a worse source of information than those

>>18576571
Take his eclectuc views on meaning and goal setting, trash his politics

they dont like him because what hes saying doesnt help their cult democratic cause, simple as that, its not about anything he says in particular its just us vs them stuff and they realized he might be relatively effective in deradicalizing people

>>18576362

Who hates him?

>>18576661
seems like a sweet job if you can get it though. Just turn up to a venue, spew opinions for an hour, cash the cheque and go home

>>18576500
Someone has never read Jung

>>18576362
How the heck can someone be a fan, or a follower, of Peterson, Shapiro, Crowder, Seder, The Young Turks, or any other at least partly political channel? It's just the same crap all the time, they just shit out of their mouths constantly, you don't hear anything worthwhile. You saw one video? You've seen them all.
It's mindboggling how retarded the idea of following any of these "thinkers" is, it's the equivalent of being a fan of Danielle Steel.
Stop posting Peterson, unless of course your discussing his book.
The guy wrote one crappy longwinded book, and after he got popular he summarised it in a shorter book and sold that. He's not worth discussing, he's brought nothing new to the world of literature, or anything else for that matter.