Need a plate of generic, insipid platitudes with a giant helping of bad science and misogyny?
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2023
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I used to like him. I fell for the crap. To my 16 year old brain what he said made a lot of sense. He had a handful of good points, and it made me believe the rest of the shit he peddled.
I see him now, I look back on how I hung onto his words like a lost lamb, and I can only facepalm.
I realised that the only thing he is good at is marketing, not psychology...
Being 16 is the best excuse you could have for believing anything that cretin says. You're good bro.
As the maoral-less L. Ron Hubbard would say...
"You don't make money selling a book, if you want to be rich, start a religion"
Peterson is just running a dumb cult of generic (kinda bad for most people) advice that hinges on the shared identity of sad lonely boys.
Peter Pan in the books is sad as shit, advice to never grow up and never try to be better just makes people more lonely and miserable.
Meh, all of the good advice he gives you can get from some other internet guru that isn't such a grifter.
"clean your room" and "wash yourself" really aren't that profound.
I'm still pissed that because he badly quotes and misinterprets Jung all the time, people assume Jung is bullshit by association.
I think that Jung is bullshit for reasons entirely unrelated to JBP. His ideas are interesting, but not scientifically sound.
I mean a lot of Jungs work is sorta bullshit.
lots of people thought Jung was bullshit way before JBP came around.
I didn't believe him, I believed the positive messages he send and implanted. I don't care about him nowadays, but I also don't regret internalizing certain stuff he preached. It wasn't totally bullshit of what he said, until a point where he completely drifted off.
Thankfully I stopped watching any of his stuff quite a while before that happened, so I dodged this whole mess and only saw the burning ship wrack from the distance. I understand the hard feelings of others who are more involved in this topic though.
To agree, that something someone said, was correct, isn't a bad thing. Even if the stuff that follows is off the mark.
To regret that, would also mean regretting failure, but without failure there's no progress.
I did what I did for everything, and I took it with a grain of salt. This had the unfortunate side effect of just not following others and keeping up with the latest trends. Oh well, I feel happier than ever before
But by that logic, there's a terrifying number of adults who also shouldn't vote.
How so? An adult has a fully-functioning brain, unlike a 16-year-old.
Anyone above 65 for example.
Even dementia patients still have right to vote.
I'll remind you that the GOP not only exists, but is the party of choice for a little under half of voters - MTG, DeSantis, Trump, Boebert...
Voting age should be 25, since that's the age when your brain becomes fully mature.