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Reading an article about him being banned by Twitter and I just cannot believe this..


In an act of hateful solidarity, fellow right-wing culture warrior Dave Rubin shared a screenshot of Peterson's original tweet, and got his account suspended as well.


Jordan Peterson is NOT right-wing. All you have to do is read the foreword to his book to know that. It's written by Norman Doidge who wrote "The Brain That Changes Itself" and is a friend and colleague of JP.

I might take screenshots and post the fkn thing!!
 
Karl Jung and the rest of the Kabbalah shills that iv been programmed to venerate by popular media

(just consider how many movies are based on Lovecraft aka Jungian epistemology)

The wholesale indoctrination of society into proto-jewish mysticism is the ultimate unspoken phenomena
 
AbbeyLee said:
Reading an article about him being banned by Twitter and I just cannot believe this..


In an act of hateful solidarity, fellow right-wing culture warrior Dave Rubin shared a screenshot of Peterson's original tweet, and got his account suspended as well.


Jordan Peterson is NOT right-wing. All you have to do is read the foreword to his book to know that. It's written by Norman Doidge who wrote "The Brain That Changes Itself" and is a friend and colleague of JP.

I might take screenshots and post the fkn thing!!
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I'd be interested in these screenshots
 
That Jordon Peterson is held up as the single permissible intellectual figure of our time (by the controllers and their key internet asset/connection to the modern yoof Joe Rogan) is a sad indictment.

Also, his entire ascent to notoriety was based on a staged conflict he had with academic neo-marxists (who they also control but felt needed to be taken down a notch)

They manufacture these so called culture wars, can you not see this ? The whole thing is a pantomime
 
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brainonbugs said:
I'd be interested in these screenshots
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Ok, turned out I really only needed one page. I read it three years ago so it's a bit hazy. I have bought the next book but haven't read it.


So Norman Doidge is talking about JP's house, which has all these Socialist Realist paintings everywhere, of Lenin and other Communists commissioned by the USSR. He got them cheaply after the Soviet Union fell.

He was obsessed by ideologies and how leaders like Stalin and Hitler (and followers) can end up committing absolute genocide. So of course he studied the Holocaust as well as the Soviets:





Then Doidge talks about his own relatives who were victims of the Holocaust. This is the key passage -- basically what I said about JP being labelled right-wing:




And this just shows it's not written by Peterson himself heh:

 
AbbeyLee said:
Ok, turned out I really only needed one page. I read it three years ago so it's a bit hazy. I have bought the next book but haven't read it.


So Norman Doidge is talking about JP's house, which has all these Socialist Realist paintings everywhere, of Lenin and other Communists commissioned by the USSR. He got them cheaply after the Soviet Union fell.

He was obsessed by ideologies and how leaders like Stalin and Hitler (and followers) can end up committing absolute genocide. So of course he studied the Holocaust as well as the Soviets:





Then Doidge talks about his own relatives who were victims of the Holocaust. This is the key passage -- basically what I said about JP being labelled right-wing:




And this just shows it's not written by Peterson himself heh:

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Brilliant. The book is awesome especially the audio book.
 
romans_ghost said:
Michael Parenti and charles bukowski i guess, idk im sleep deprived and dont know just how political i can get in here hah
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I don't know Michael Parenti but Bukowski -- that man has contributed to keeping me alive. I'm sleep deprived as all hell too so brain is mush 😵‍💫

...This:





brainonbugs said:
Brilliant. The book is awesome especially the audio book.
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I got a lot out of it. He's the first person in my life who's actually explained to me why order is a good thing. Everyone else (ie. parents, school, society) has just bossed me around or expected me to behave like they do naturally.. Which backfired spectacularly haha 😣
 
AbbeyLee said:
I don't know Michael Parenti but Bukowski -- that man has contributed to keeping me alive. I'm sleep deprived as all hell too so brain is mush 😵‍💫

...This:







I got a lot out of it. He's the first person in my life who's actually explained to me why order is a good thing. Everyone else (ie. parents, school, society) has just bossed me around or expected me to behave like they do naturally.. Which backfired spectacularly haha 😣
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I recently bought a parenti shirt, its gotten a lot of looks lol, hes yet to say one thing in his videos that i find to be wrong
 
romans_ghost said:
Majority of his lectures are around an hour and a half long, this is his classic, yellow parenti!

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I know. I looked and I need 10 mins or less cos of my "ADHD" from living on YouTube. I watched a very short one and he seems to be along the lines of Chomsky, who really knows what he's talking about.
 
AbbeyLee said:
I know. I looked and I need 10 mins or less cos of my "ADHD" from living on YouTube. I watched a very short one and he seems to be along the lines of Chomsky, who really knows what he's talking about.
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Something i had to do in order to take in new books after psychosis ruined my attention span, was listen to an audio book once all the way through,without stressing if i zoned out. And come back to it in a week or more later and go through it again. Helped me to retain new info. You could also possibly find short clips of his works, or if you frequent your local library at all, they might have books of his if youre lucky. Hes really spot on with all his political commentary
 
romans_ghost said:
Something i had to do in order to take in new books after psychosis ruined my attention span, was listen to an audio book once all the way through,without stressing if i zoned out. And come back to it in a week or more later and go through it again. Helped me to retain new info. You could also possibly find short clips of his works, or if you frequent your local library at all, they might have books of his if youre lucky. Hes really spot on with all his political commentary
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Well he's written 20+ books I think? I go onto Goodreads and read all the quotes (and save the best in my notes).


These are good:

"The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force."

Michael Parenti, Against Empire



"No system in history has been more relentless [than capitalism] in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, devouring the resources of whole regions, and standardizing the varieties of human experience."

Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
 
AbbeyLee said:
Well he's written 20+ books I think? I go onto Goodreads and read all the quotes (and save the best in my notes).


These are good:

"The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherein a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force."

Michael Parenti, Against Empire



"No system in history has been more relentless [than capitalism] in battering down ancient and fragile cultures, pulverizing centuries-old practices in a matter of years, devouring the resources of whole regions, and standardizing the varieties of human experience."

Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
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Talking about him, i decided to wear my parenti shirt to church today, it has him and a quote of his, "the dirty truth is that the rich are the great cause of poverty"

I was wearing this shirt last time i was taken to hospital for low blood sugar, and the cop who came on scene scoffed and asked me if i really thought like that, like bro i just passed out and you wanna talk politics. Aint like its directed at him im sure
 
AbbeyLee said:
I know. I looked and I need 10 mins or less cos of my "ADHD" from living on YouTube. I watched a very short one and he seems to be along the lines of Chomsky, who really knows what he's talking about.
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I prefer Chomsky to Parenti. Parenti puts the ideological element in more than Chomsky does...I feel like, with Chomsky, you can get something out of his content with only a general interest in foreign policy or international relations, whereas with Parenti you are more likely to appreciate it if you come more from an ideological, anti-imperialist standpoint. And from what I remember Parenti seemed to be pretty tolerant of the Soviet or PRC-aligned regimes which opposed the United States during the Cold War.

I mean you can certainly put events in context (repression/persecution from the USA or USA-aligned nations) and dispel the misplaced notions and propaganda which was historically circulated about many of those regimes. But as a left-winger you should recognize the fatal flaws and abuses in many of these countries, that's what I think anyway.

His son Christian Parenti wrote a pretty good book a while back called "Lockdown America", about the prison system.
 
jasperkent said:
I'm sticking to the last 100 years.

Joseph Campbell
Carl Sagan
Martin Luther King Jr
Gloria Steinem
George Carlin
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert

Edit: I fully recognize the fact that my list is mostly white, mostly male, heavily comedic, and all American. These are people who strongly influenced me personally, not necessarily the whole world.
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Oh, and a couple more BIG ONES:
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Tina Fey
John Prine
 
AbbeyLee said:
I don't know Michael Parenti but Bukowski -- that man has contributed to keeping me alive. I'm sleep deprived as all hell too so brain is mush 😵‍💫

...This:







I got a lot out of it. He's the first person in my life who's actually explained to me why order is a good thing. Everyone else (ie. parents, school, society) has just bossed me around or expected me to behave like they do naturally.. Which backfired spectacularly haha 😣
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I get that. Listening to an audiobook of his on your psychedelic of choice, would reccomend 😂
 
And I got through half The Tibetan Book of the Dead one night. Now that might be good on psychedelics lol

 
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