Just watched the J. Peterson video clip from above. Man, not much you can do about it but in that clip he comes across as a bitterly ranting, arrogant shmock with a popularity complex. (Not meant as an ad hominem, just an unfiltered observation on this particular gig of his.)
Unfortunately, he starts his excursion with a truism guised as a reproach to catch the audience and then, in two instances, scolds this very same applauding audience to underline his authority. I'd call that an overall poor performance. What's with all this bitterness? There must be better discussions featuring him.
Two things he said there though that I like . He seems to suggest to:
- raise all people out of poverty
- provide better education for all
Well, now I am curious what Peterson envisions to achieve that.
Well, after that cheesy, kumbaya question I would've probably reacted the same way, you have to know more about Peterson to understand the question that guy asked, Peterson wrote a book called "Maps of Meaning", and the guy in the audience strated brown nosing Peterson by ending his question with something like "humanity could discover its global Map of Meaning", also note that the guy who asks the question says "we could move beyond bill C-16", that bill is a Canadian bill which made Peterson famous due to his strong rejection and his public speech in congress against that bill, so Peterson's "No" was more than appropriate towards the Woke poetry that the guy disguised as a question, I bet the guy in the audience prepared and rehearsed that question all week before the interview thinking he was delivering "gold".
I guess he is tired that people praise climate change as the biggest catastrophe above anything else, and he is telling them not to be hyprocrites.
He proposed a solution, he mentioned Bjorn Lomborg's work, haven't read it thou, I saw that there is a recent video of Lomborg talking with Peterson, perhaps it is better explained there.
By the way, if you are familiar with Peterson, he is usually like that, he smiles sometimes but he is not a sweet character, actually I've seen him cry more than laugh, he always tells it straight, in fact in the first speech which made him famous in the UT, he is actually grinding his teeth while he yells at the crowd. He scolds the audience because he is not trying to be funny, and the audience was laughing thinking he made a joke. He is an interesting character, he seems dark and pessimist, but in all that pessimism he delivers some really uplifting ideas and truth. He is one of the great ones that will make a mark in history. And yes, I have a little bit of positive bias towards him.
