Someone linked to it on another one of my jordan peterson hate threads
good lord
"I remember taking my daughter to the playground when she was about two. A particularly provocative little monster of about the same age was standing on the same bar she was gripping. I watched him move towards her, our eyes locked. He slowly and deliberately stepped on her hands with increasing force over and over as he stared me down. He knew exactly what he was doing. "Up yours, Daddio" That was his philosophy. He had already concluded that adults were contemptable, and that he could safely defy them. Too bad then that he was destined to become one. That was the hopeless future his parents had saddled him with. To his great and salutary shock, I picked him bodily off the playground structure and threw him 30 feet down the field. No, I didn't, I just took my daughter somewhere else, but it would have been better for him if I had."
That is 100% a real Jordan Peterson quote, though I forget what it was from.
W...
wha?....
What?
Do... do people not realize that they aren't required to say or write things down that are going on in their brain at all times?
Its okay to not say something, its okay to let things be forgotten.
Kermit Voice: Don't you see the Oedipal formation is the highest aspiration of the conservative, by sexual attraction to grandparents, you are subconsciously aspiring to the strength and virtue of the Greatest Generation. You can clean you room and clean the Europe from Communists. This is clearly laid out in Greek Mythology, which made Oedipus Rex.
Obviously JP didn’t succeed at coming out the other side, but it can be healthier to acknowledge the bizarre tangle of socially unacceptable impulses and desires that we harbor, rather than averting our eyes all our lives. Psychoanalysis is strange and uncomfortable because people are profoundly weird creatures.
Very weird, but also not that weird in a way for somebody who considers themself a Jungian psychoanalyst. I haven't read much Jung, but Freud was all about interpreting dreams as wish fulfillment, weird sexual shit, etc. Wouldn't be surprised if you had told me the quote came from Freud himself. That said, still hilarious.
Of all the things to write down. Let alone type with the intent to publish.
You can tell noone, fan or critic, has actually read any of his books because he writes weird shit like this literally all the time and it goes largely undiscussed
