pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
Plus he has a massive knob
have to admit i started off fairly sympathetic to him a few years ago, but lately, with all the stuff version's been mentioning, not so much. i'm sure he has some interesting points or good advice but i'm not convinced, given all the other bs, that it's worth ardently defending him over.
it seems like the standard path for a "public intellectual" is to start off doing fairly respectable work in their own field, then increasingly reach beyond their area of expertise to make overgeneralized, lazy arguments about complex social issues as they become more famous. being famous makes you dumber.
What lazy arguments? I also did like him better before fame, but mostly people attack because they don't want to hear 'intellectuals' (he never call himself that) simplify things. Yeah, well if there's something's intellectuals need to do more nowadaya it is exactly that. I think they don't mainly because they're all specialist while he s more like a classic polymath type, who can synthesize things.
He didn't do himself any favours in the Zizek debate. Did anyone catch that? Zizek definitely 'won' but it was a fairly affable affair all told.
The problem with the polymath tag is one of the major criticisms I've seen time and time again is that he doesn't know what he's talking about outside of psychology.
the vids version posted for one.
i'm not interested in defending post modernism but those videos make his criticisms look pretty unconvincing.
It was pretty crappy sure. Though for all the banality I still think his initial attacks on communism had merit.
Yeah and Zizek is simply better at doing that live stuff. Off the cuff. Playful. Win over the crowd. Get the jabs in. But in the end I think he warmed to Peterson somewhat. Might give it a rewatch. There were some nice moments.
His entire shtick is that people need to forget about silly things like activism and get their own houses in order. Turns out he's a drug addled lunatic with insane ideas about diet and health. He's in no position to be preaching to anyone.
Aren't you? Mr Vigilant Citizen?
Who's doing cross disciplinary work for the layman to understand but him?
He is genuinely right about what to do with the alt-right types. It's a masculinity crisis, but not how people usually think
His defence for free speech is much much deeper and interesting than anything else
He is an icocnoclast on almost every topic : his views on DMT, fascism, music, ADHD, technology, dependency etc
Doesn't any away from any topic and willing to stick his head out
etc
how can you defend something as ineffable as free speech? It's like trying to defend the existence of God.
I guess for him that's one and the same thing.