If you watch nothing else today, watch Jordan Peterson taking apart Justin Trudeau and, by extension, Canada and international wokism. I started to collect some choice quotes, but gave up because there are just too many. (The longer video is here.)
Me, I just wonder when the worm will finally start to turn…
My chronic complaint is that I read at least four times faster than most people’s speaking cadence, and so I don’t normally watch videos. They just take too damned long to relay their substantive content, and most vloggers bookend their vids with minute after minute of pleading for subscriptions and likes and sponsor clicks.
I told you that so that you would understand this:
I’m glad I made one of my rare exceptions for this one. It’s MASSIVELY worth 25 minutes.
Another thing I’ll mention: I have a degree in psychology, which had a concentration in research methodology and statistical analysis. It was a job I did professionally early in my career until I pivoted to focus on software engineering.
I am *very* skeptical of psychology as an empirical science. Empirical science discovers, characterizes and verifyably tests the hard linkages of cause and effect in the realityFact (r)(tm) natural world.
Humans are messy and indedeterminate, and therefore aren’t good subjects for hard empiricism. The best you get is a sort of loose correllative soft science that maintains reliability across groups, which then makes a weak at best claim of being able to predict an individual’s future behavior. As predictive science, it rests in the shadow of voodoo, hence the long standing replication crisis in psych. As descriptive narrative however, it carries a lot of weight, and has some significant value describing the dynamics of the individual human psyche and its interactions with other human psyches. Unfortunately, most people with mistake this value for the authority of hard empirical science.
I told you all that so as to give context when I tell you this: the sort of correllations Dr. Peterson describes as it pertains to the “Dark Tetrad” (People whose personality traits include Narcicism, Machiavellianism, Pyschopathology and Sadism. ) and the goings on in Canada capture some essential truths of our social and political currents in the West, which has disrupted its ability to protect itself from its exploitative Dark Tetrad people.
The Dark Tetrad. Our politicians. If someone wants the job that is prima facie proof they should never get near any levers of power.
I watched both videos. It was a worthwhile investment of 2 hours. His analysis of the left guilt tripping conservatives is pretty astute and ultimately depressing. I am fairly pessimistic about the future of the republic and its effects on my family. I am now 70 and the country has been on a downward spiral, with a few upward movements, for as long as I remember. I moved to Idaho from California and now have half my family here. At least some of my descendants will has a bit of liberty before the eventual collapse of society.
Howdy, Neighbor – Having moved to rural NV from SoCal I find myself wondering if I will die here from having to fight to regain Liberty & Freedom, or in bed from depression resulting from losing that fight. Right now, it seems to be touch & go.
JP is brilliant. Way beyond me. I have nothing astute or insightful to add. I am just a normal human.
Remember to click on the cog-looking icon always on the lower right of videos – click on it and you can change standard to 1.5 speed; makes videos shorter, but still you can follow easily.
An IT lady told me about this deal and I use it always – really helps keeps one’s sanity!!
Canada is a colony of Cuba and, to a lesser extent, Venezuela.