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Cuck Philosophy does not miss (hexbear.net)

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[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 25 points 3 months ago

Jordan Peterson is really easy to critique though, like babies first philosophy 101 class easy to critique. The fact that he became popular and was taken seriously is a whole indictment of the state of popular philosophy. Like, for god's sake, popular philosophy was in a better state when the existentials were at the helm, which is saying something since the existentialists were pretty shit most of the time.

[-] REgon@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

He isn't even a philospher, right? isn't he a psychologist? and a jungian one at that lol, uhhh yeah my shadow self is why I'm depressed, gotta go read the hero with a thousand faces to figure out why my childhood wasn't good.

[-] HamManBad@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Yeah he was at the forefront of popular philosophy going from edgelord existentialist nerds to edgelord hacks completely devoid of meaningful philosophical consistency. Ironically, JBP is the embodiment of postmodernism

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 8 points 3 months ago

He was a psychologist, but his books are much less about psychology and more about philosophy of society, the mind, and the nature of evil. There are elements of psychology to it, but it has more in common (from a literature perspective) with Marcus Aurelius than a Jung.