Jordan Peterson thinks it makes sense to compare humans with lobsters

[luka]

hes far more benign than Milo.

[vimothy]

more benign, but also more credible - which makes it worse, in a way

[luka]

marginally more credible. he's already more laughing stock than bogeyman.

to the point ive almost begun to find him endearing. he's relatable.

[vimothy]

is "laughing stock" a good description of peterson? why are there so many articles about - some praising, most denouncing - him?

[luka]

i can realate to the vanity in the picture corpse posted. i know what happens when people
start playing attention, telling you how great you are. goes to your head
and why shouldnt it?

[luka]

is "laughing stock" a good description of peterson? why are there so many articles about - some praising, most denouncing - him?

twitter is a better weathervane than thinkpieces

[Corpsey]

It's all that seratonin

[luka]

hes got a great figure. and he dreses like craner.

[luka]

i was reading this bubbes guy this morning, slotherdjik
its been freaking me out a bit cos theres a lot of my ideas in there
i would say he is the continental answer to peterson. basically the same (bluffing)
technique but better read. i sort of see them as my people in a way.
so although i know theyre ridiculous i also feel affectionate towards them.

b

[luka]

like this is me

What then are the conditions necessary to invoke the demon, and how does one make it talk? The enclosed space, like the magician’s circle, is a given. Within the circle the magician is protected. The demon is safely contained. The therapist’s room, like the magician’s circle is a special kind of space. The rules are suspended. Reality is more malleable there, and experiments can be made in relative safety. Old habits are sloughed off, new selves are tried on for size, like costumes plucked from the dressing up box.
This is the frame. The bubble. It is unimportant whether the frame is formally demarcated but it is must be there, at least implicitly. By sealing off the outside world, what is formed is analogous to the bubble universes of speculative physics. Ideally, what happens in the bubble universe allows the client to be stronger, wiser, kinder and more contented on returning to the wider world.

[luka]

it's not thinking in any meaningful sense of the word. it's something else. less reputable

[vimothy]

twitter is a better weathervane than thinkpieces

idk, twitter is more self-selected

[firefinga]

Isn't that guy the equivalent of this "alt-right vs SJW" - thing in "academia" ? Meaning, he is the 4chan college professor or something?

You can't take this circus seriously, anyways.

[vimothy]

sloterdijk = peterson is a pretty hot take

[version]

Semi-related: David Foster Wallace on lobsters

http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf

Apparently he ended up eating a couple anyway.