Before his rise to fame he was just your average conservative loser who was generally disliked by students and consequently fucked with, had dreams of having his own church, believed his dreams were prophetic, and created nonsensical works and lectures that usually ended up involving the bible somehow. He became a big name for two things to my knowledge, one of them being transphobia; he claimed he wouldn't use pronouns if forced by the state and was one of the proponents of the lies about bill c16. The other big thing being "caring about the poor young men" where he correctly identifies that people are not doing well under capitalism but just suggests usual right wing garbage.
He made a bad self-help book that was primarily average, mundane advice most people have heard like cleaning your room, but mixed in a lot of insane shit with it. From what I remember, he wrote in the book he wanted to throw a toddler, he suggests never letting kids do things you dislike, and he had more sympathy for an alcoholic man than he had for a woman stuck in an abusive relationship. Somewhere along the way he became popular with incels and spewed even more misogyny (i.e forced marriage). At one point there was a site that quizzed you on whether quotes came from Peterson or a fundamentalist Islamic priest, they were indistinguishable. He generally likened masculinity with order and femininity with chaos. Whenever challenged on this or similar controversial things he would bloviate and weasel his way out of answering directly, like one time he was asked if believed in god and he would not give an answer that definitively said yes or no.
He's also a proponent of "cultural Marxism" which is a nazi conspiracy theory. Despite despising the left and socialism, he's obsessed with Soviet art and even named his daughter Mihkaila. His daughter is also very weird and has dated a human trafficker and might have tried to kill him. She gave him covid twice while he was recovering from his Russian benzo treatment. They both are fans of the meat only diet and Peterson claims apple cider got him sick, kept him awake for like 3 days, and gave him a sense of doom. He said this on Rogan where even Joe called him out on that, he immediately back tracked the 3 days. It doesn't seem like he's ever fully recovered from his benzo addiction, like he cries a lot and I think there have been behind-the-scenes anecdotes about him not doing well generally but idk any off the top of my head. He got the Russian treatment because it was a very bad way of going about treating the addiction that would not be done in Canada or the US I think, so that's probably part of it. Benzo addiction is supposed to be very bad and going cold turkey can outright kill you from what I've heard.
I think he's pretty much a joke now, like he's publicly said woman can't be in the workplace with men and he said he was pro-segregation before being challenged, after which he immediately back tracked again. He also brings up fairy tales and stuff a lot while frequently crying. He's also said people quitting smoking was proof of god or only possible because of god, something like that. Peterson was also absolutely owned by Zizek in a debate or some public talk. Olivia Wilde is making a movie with a character inspired by him, she dubbed him the king of the incels I think and called him this weird miserable man or something to that affect. He also backed out of a debate with Richard Wolff after saying no Marxist would debate him.
Him and his daughter generally seem to be just milking their fanbase that's primarily white men doing bad under capitalism, as most people are. I find him particularly disgusting for that because someone I knew fell down the right wing rabbithole because of him. Early on everyone would try to weasel around his obvious right wing tendencies and call him apolitical or center-left, which is obviously bullshit. He's also a climate change denier that takes oil money and on more than one occasion his fans have asked him about the "Jewish question" during his tour.
Cass Eris, an actual psychologist, has an entire series dedicated to ripping apart his book: he's also a bad academic with a ton of noncitated claims and cases of stretching conclusions from different studies. He was once asked to testify and the court just outright labeled him a lunatic more or less. The sub enoughpetersonspam also has a lot of stuff about him.
Benzo addiction is supposed to be very bad and going cold turkey can outright kill you from what I’ve heard.
It's similar to alcohol in that it depresses CNS function and when it's suddenly gone you get a lot of nerves that suddenly don't have this depressant effect able to fire with little to no stimulation which can cause seizures and probably other symptoms including death
I guess I can appreciate that if you have actual psyche credentials there's a lot you can get into, but I'll probably be peacing out after the first couple of parts.
Before his rise to fame he was just your average conservative loser who was generally disliked by students and consequently fucked with, had dreams of having his own church, believed his dreams were prophetic, and created nonsensical works and lectures that usually ended up involving the bible somehow. He became a big name for two things to my knowledge, one of them being transphobia; he claimed he wouldn't use pronouns if forced by the state and was one of the proponents of the lies about bill c16. The other big thing being "caring about the poor young men" where he correctly identifies that people are not doing well under capitalism but just suggests usual right wing garbage.
He made a bad self-help book that was primarily average, mundane advice most people have heard like cleaning your room, but mixed in a lot of insane shit with it. From what I remember, he wrote in the book he wanted to throw a toddler, he suggests never letting kids do things you dislike, and he had more sympathy for an alcoholic man than he had for a woman stuck in an abusive relationship. Somewhere along the way he became popular with incels and spewed even more misogyny (i.e forced marriage). At one point there was a site that quizzed you on whether quotes came from Peterson or a fundamentalist Islamic priest, they were indistinguishable. He generally likened masculinity with order and femininity with chaos. Whenever challenged on this or similar controversial things he would bloviate and weasel his way out of answering directly, like one time he was asked if believed in god and he would not give an answer that definitively said yes or no.
He's also a proponent of "cultural Marxism" which is a nazi conspiracy theory. Despite despising the left and socialism, he's obsessed with Soviet art and even named his daughter Mihkaila. His daughter is also very weird and has dated a human trafficker and might have tried to kill him. She gave him covid twice while he was recovering from his Russian benzo treatment. They both are fans of the meat only diet and Peterson claims apple cider got him sick, kept him awake for like 3 days, and gave him a sense of doom. He said this on Rogan where even Joe called him out on that, he immediately back tracked the 3 days. It doesn't seem like he's ever fully recovered from his benzo addiction, like he cries a lot and I think there have been behind-the-scenes anecdotes about him not doing well generally but idk any off the top of my head. He got the Russian treatment because it was a very bad way of going about treating the addiction that would not be done in Canada or the US I think, so that's probably part of it. Benzo addiction is supposed to be very bad and going cold turkey can outright kill you from what I've heard.
I think he's pretty much a joke now, like he's publicly said woman can't be in the workplace with men and he said he was pro-segregation before being challenged, after which he immediately back tracked again. He also brings up fairy tales and stuff a lot while frequently crying. He's also said people quitting smoking was proof of god or only possible because of god, something like that. Peterson was also absolutely owned by Zizek in a debate or some public talk. Olivia Wilde is making a movie with a character inspired by him, she dubbed him the king of the incels I think and called him this weird miserable man or something to that affect. He also backed out of a debate with Richard Wolff after saying no Marxist would debate him.
Him and his daughter generally seem to be just milking their fanbase that's primarily white men doing bad under capitalism, as most people are. I find him particularly disgusting for that because someone I knew fell down the right wing rabbithole because of him. Early on everyone would try to weasel around his obvious right wing tendencies and call him apolitical or center-left, which is obviously bullshit. He's also a climate change denier that takes oil money and on more than one occasion his fans have asked him about the "Jewish question" during his tour.
Cass Eris, an actual psychologist, has an entire series dedicated to ripping apart his book: he's also a bad academic with a ton of noncitated claims and cases of stretching conclusions from different studies. He was once asked to testify and the court just outright labeled him a lunatic more or less. The sub enoughpetersonspam also has a lot of stuff about him.
It's similar to alcohol in that it depresses CNS function and when it's suddenly gone you get a lot of nerves that suddenly don't have this depressant effect able to fire with little to no stimulation which can cause seizures and probably other symptoms including death
Wow thanks if he wasn’t such a shit I’d feel bad for them thanks for al the info
Gonna watch these! ...holy shit it's 41 parts averaging 45 minutes each.
I guess I can appreciate that if you have actual psyche credentials there's a lot you can get into, but I'll probably be peacing out after the first couple of parts.