A lot of people have attacked me for that – I’m the stupid person’s smart person. But you know, I’m not so upset about that definition. What are they? The smart person’s smart person? And I thought you weren’t elitist. Part of the role of an intellectual is to articulate what people know but can’t say. In that sense, I’m doing my job.
In the full quote Peterson says that he knows other people have called him 'the stupid person’s smart person' but he's now using the label for himself. This is very typical 'I'm not owned' coping behavior. He wants to reframe himself as someone who is humble instead of it being that only stupid people think he's smart.
If I think a movie is bad but can't say why, then reading a movie review that talks about why said movie is underwhelming will help me figure it out. I don't like marvel movies because they're like amusement park rides (Scorcese said this), but all i knew before that op-ed was that i didn't like them. But I like to know why I don't like things.
Peterson is clearly the edgy-cishet-comedian type of telling it how it is, but like many Peterson quotes this isn't bad out of context, but bad when he says it because of who he is. Washing your penis is also good advice, but when Peterson says it you know it's going to go back to tradition/hierarchies/chaos/stupid-Jung-archetypes/FEEEEEMALES, etc.
Also telling that he probably doesn't know why he's a dumb-guy's smart person, he probably thinks he's actually insightful even though he's not cited too often in his actual field he got a PhD in, and isn't a real philosophy prof to get to write about indecipherable Jung stuff like Zizek gets to write about Lacan.
here's the article https://archive.ph/FPg5x
In the full quote Peterson says that he knows other people have called him 'the stupid person’s smart person' but he's now using the label for himself. This is very typical 'I'm not owned' coping behavior. He wants to reframe himself as someone who is humble instead of it being that only stupid people think he's smart.
"The role of a smart person is to articulate the unexamined emotional impulses of people"
"To confront and examine them, right?"
"Yesssss....."
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I mean there's levels to that,
If I think a movie is bad but can't say why, then reading a movie review that talks about why said movie is underwhelming will help me figure it out. I don't like marvel movies because they're like amusement park rides (Scorcese said this), but all i knew before that op-ed was that i didn't like them. But I like to know why I don't like things.
Peterson is clearly the edgy-cishet-comedian type of telling it how it is, but like many Peterson quotes this isn't bad out of context, but bad when he says it because of who he is. Washing your penis is also good advice, but when Peterson says it you know it's going to go back to tradition/hierarchies/chaos/stupid-Jung-archetypes/FEEEEEMALES, etc.
Also telling that he probably doesn't know why he's a dumb-guy's smart person, he probably thinks he's actually insightful even though he's not cited too often in his actual field he got a PhD in, and isn't a real philosophy prof to get to write about indecipherable Jung stuff like Zizek gets to write about Lacan.
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