I have spent at least 100 hours over the past 6 months listening to the lectures of Youtube sensation and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson.
His critics view him as a life-guru for blundering, angry white men—as the leader of the “Incels” (short for “involuntary celibates”) who are useless both to women and to society. He has been called “the belle of the alt-right” and “the stupid man’s smart person,” and, my favorite, “a Messiah-cum-surrogate-dad for gormless dimwits.” He is, according to the New York Times, a patriarchical pseudointellectual, riding his devilish dark horse into stardom and corrupting everybody in his path, at best an idiot fraud and at worst, the most dangerous thinker in the West.
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