Your entire schtick is based upon the fallacious belief that someone has to be the perfect example of their beliefs and philosophies for them to be allowed to carry that message, or for that message to have validity. Personally I don't see the world in the rather simple terms you seem to....I don't assume that just because someone espouses a certain philosophy that they are always going to be able to carry it out perfectly. I don't require people to be perfect examples of humanity for me to be able to take value from them or for me to listen to what they have to say. Maybe you do, but I would suggest that's a somewhat short-sighted way of living your life.
You are typical of those who are part of modern outrage culture in that the lens you are choosing to view the world through is entirely combative and defensive to the point of exclusion over logic. I've never heard him 'preaching' anything personally, I've heard him talking about sets of ideas and saying that it might be advisable to consider those ideas if you want to have a successful life. I've never heard him claim that he's always able to live his life perfectly by those 'rules', he is after all a human with frailties and failures and like all of us will make bad decisions sometimes. I've never heard him suggest that those who choose not to follow his ideas are in some way lesser than those who do. Preaching doesn't seem to be an accurate description to me.
It's unclear exactly what his medical situation is as the way it has been reported is pretty unclear, although there do seem to be a lot of complications. If he was just going through a normal detox then yes I do tend to err on the side of saying just pull yourself together and do your cluck it aint that bad, but that's more about my ego than rational thought. I'm not privvy to all the relevant information (the same as all of us) so it's somewhat hard to pass comment on that.
I would be interested to hear what this 'bog standard right wing ideology' you think he is pushing is? I can't say that I've noticed that myself, I'd be interested to know more about it.
....and please, try to use paragraphs.
1. If he was pushing general self-help advice, then I wouldn't fault him for having personal problems. Yet when a core tenant of his philosophy is to set your life in order before criticizing others or trying to change the world & he builds his career upon telling people how to live and then it's revealed that his own life was in disarray while he was preaching this then it makes him a hypocrite. I don't even see how you can possibly deny this. When someone speaks out against cheating and then it's revealed they have been carrying on multiple affairs, would you similarly run to their defense? How about the preacher who it turns out was smoking meth and fucking rent boys? I guess you would be similarly quick to rush in and defend him, since "someone doesn't have to be a perfect example of their beliefs to carry a message". I am simply holding Jordan Peterson to the standard he sets for others - you seem to be implying we should hold him to a lower standard than he applies to others? Why?
2. Peterson gives moral advice. I find him to be self-righteous, therefore I brand it "preaching". This is a matter of opinion, not fact, so it doesn't really matter whether you believe he was preaching or not, I can still classify it as such.
3. Peterson was being guided through a medical detox and couldn't handle it which is why he went to Russia for a drug-induced coma. This is now a matter of public record, as detailed by his daughter. This is obviously irrational behavior - he can't bear the discomfort so he's looking for an easy way out of it. He hasn't got the strength of character to extricate himself from the addiction that he created with his own misguided choices, and through his own weakness he has possibly (hopefully) gotten himself brain damaged. Good riddance.
4. You deny Peterson is a conservative? Really? Have you even listened to him talk about politics? His entire political framework is built on the idea that change threatens the way of life we have now, that tradition & order are the bedrocks of our society, and that society evolves at our peril. This is Conservatism 101. Throw in the circus he created about his refusal to refer to a hypothetical trans person as their preferred pronoun (because for some unexplained, unclear reason this is the first step towards the re-creation of Stalin's Russia in North America), his victim-blaming mentality when it comes to the Me Too movement ("women wear makeup! that's sexually provocative!") & his espoused love for christian values and a pretty clear picture emerges of an old conservative, frightened & alarmed by progressive changes obscuring his basic, reactionary beliefs by talking nonsense about Jung and "archetypes" etc.
I understand that Peterson may have inspired you when you found his videos. I'm sure he had a big impact on you. All that profound, incredible wisdom like "clean your room" and "stand up straight" probably really touched and resonated with you, but you are letting your uncritical adoration blind you to even the simplest of facts about him like his fundamental politics.
