From 153b715d7cfb29005dbac54ac2118064013a4c297c99f622b350055201ad6da0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicholas Johnson Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Subject: Fix Invidious links --- .../re-dr-pordan-jeterson-answering-the-toughest-question-of-all.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/entry/re-dr-pordan-jeterson-answering-the-toughest-question-of-all.md b/content/entry/re-dr-pordan-jeterson-answering-the-toughest-question-of-all.md index c41861e..0a2b0b4 100644 --- a/content/entry/re-dr-pordan-jeterson-answering-the-toughest-question-of-all.md +++ b/content/entry/re-dr-pordan-jeterson-answering-the-toughest-question-of-all.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ title: "Re: Dr. Pordan Jeterson: Answering the Toughest Question of All" date: 2023-09-06T00:00:00 draft: false --- -A few months ago a Youtuber that goes by the alias DarkMatter2525 made a video titled '[Dr. Pordan Jeterson: Answering the Toughest Question of All](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RGCKIOBBK7Y&dark_mode=true)' showing the confusing way public intellectual [Jordan Peterson](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson) communicates. +A few months ago a Youtuber that goes by the alias DarkMatter2525 made a video titled '[Dr. Pordan Jeterson: Answering the Toughest Question of All](https://yewtu.be/embed/RGCKIOBBK7Y?local=true)' showing the confusing way public intellectual [Jordan Peterson](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson) communicates. Peterson has a fairly large and dedicated following. I found a few of his psychology lectures online. They were alright. He's obviously very passionate and able to communicate clearly at least some of the time. I'm not going to criticize his opinions in this entry because I have no idea what he actually thinks. What I think he deserves the most criticism for is his way of using language. @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ He often frustrates interviewers and debaters because he seems impossible to pin What's particularly frustrating about Peterson is that the noises he makes on controversial subjects often sound sympathetic to conservative politics, especially when taken in today's social/cultural context, but then he refuses to give definite answers about whether he actually holds the views that his noises heavily imply and accuses people who challenge what it sounds like he's saying as strawmanning. -It's not just the fact that he isn't plainspoken or that he's long-winded. Plenty of philosophers manage to be intelligible despite being verbose and roundabout on occasion. It's that he strings together these highfalutin phrases that cannot be understood without clarification, but his attempts to clarify are equally vague. I think one of the best examples of what I'm talking about here is [this video](https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9ZZDmxCBUQo?dark_mode=true "Jordan B. Peterson Smashes the World Record for Word Salad"). +It's not just the fact that he isn't plainspoken or that he's long-winded. Plenty of philosophers manage to be intelligible despite being verbose and roundabout on occasion. It's that he strings together these highfalutin phrases that cannot be understood without clarification, but his attempts to clarify are equally vague. I think one of the best examples of what I'm talking about here is [this video](https://yewtu.be/embed/9ZZDmxCBUQo?local=true "Jordan B. Peterson Smashes the World Record for Word Salad"). I don't know Peterson's motives, but I don't believe he creates word salads on purpose. He seems to genuinely think he's making sense when he just isn't. He reminds me of [Deepak Chopra](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra) with the way he seems to hypnotize an audience with fanciful language that sounds deep and is grammatically correct, but incomprehensible. -- cgit v1.2.3