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(apologies for ranting)

Your observation is important. I have such an ambivalent impression of JBP, and it has been that way for years now. He is inarguably smart. He will say things that resonate with fundamental truths, at a deep level, and which often play to the values of a conservative audience. To those things I'll say, "This guy has the right idea." Then he will go and do a lecture and literally cry over the atrocities against Jews in the Holocaust, despite the fact that in the same speech he mentions 60 million deaths in Bolshevik Russia without ever saying a word about white Christians, or about the Jewish makeup of Bolshevism.

I'm even ambivalent about the reason why he does this, for example, when he rejected outright the audience question about Solzhenitsyn's discussion of Jewry in Two Hundred Years Together. I wonder if it is because Jordan knew that addressing these issues would cut short his rise to stardom? Or does it mean that he is part of a controlled opposition effort, placing him in a position to be a pressure release valve? I lean toward the former most of the time. I think he wanted fame and attention, and to 'go there' would be like having a Toyota that was transforming into a Maserati, but you run it into a brick wall before it can finish.

I thought his 5-min mini speech titled 'A Message to the Truckers' was a barely concealed request to end the protests. Just more ambivalence. On the one hand, here is Jordan criticizing the government. He has allowed truckers to appear on his channel to voice their demands. On the other hand, in the video I mentioned Jordan says that reasonable people will start leaving now, leaving a higher majority of extremists 'holding the line'. This is based on Jordan's opinion that most restrictions at the provincial level are being downgraded so the protest has 'mostly won'. So if some people don't agree, namely because the vaccine mandates that spurred the movement to begin with haven't been lifted, then Jordan is setting up the interpretation that the truckers who remain are extremists.

That, to me, sounds like a way to simultaneously be the conservative 'muh guy' while also having the out:


I mean, I know several people who basically aligned themselves against (and ridiculed) 'conspiratorial thinking' because of their Jordan Peterson fandom. Yet what Jordan Peterson is stating here, in five minutes time, is a straightforward conspiracy theory. More ambivalence. Does Jordan's usual admonition, for everyone to stop criticizing high-lvl facts and work on their own low-lvl facts, apply in this case? Or is it fine to trash the hierarchy in this case? If hierarchy is the answer to everything, how does Jordan want to explain that the highest levels of it here are as corrupt as he agrees they are?

It's as if all of JBP's ordinary talk about the ontology of hierarchies/status is held separately in the minds of his fans from his actual politics (from his real assessment of practical matters). Whereas I see the inconsistencies, and this makes me skeptical.

He has books to sell, it would be financial suicide to do so. We can be anonymous online, he can't exactly explain 'gas the jews', buy my new book.

Yep, it's called acting. He's a lying charlatan. He has already been outed and yet still dimwits are upvoting this communist slimebag. He is just another gate keeper alt-right zionist faggot.