11 Replies to “A Wonderful Set of Red Pills to Start Off Your Week”

  1. No matter what your cause, I think you shoot yourself in the foot, shin, upper thigh — hell, pretty much all over! — as soon as you call something a “manifesto”. I read or hear the word “manifesto” and I think of a loon in a cabin out in the woods or a sweaty dictator somewhere covered in costume military regalia.

    Unfortunately, Peterson goes for the loon in the woods look with a stack of firewood behind him in his video! Jordan, meet Ted; Ted, Jordan. That said, the Ikea Kallax shelf in the tasteful “walnut effect” finish behind Peterson reassures us that the man is, indeed, civilized. Or is at least within driving distance of an Ikea pick-up warehouse.

    Can we call Peterson’s work by a name that has perhaps a better image and reputation? Perhaps something with “declaration” in the title? Perhaps “12 Declarations for Life”? Considering Peterson’s work, how about calling it something catchy that plays on “Genesis” or “Exodus”? Let’s avoid “Revelations”, but you get the idea.

    Just throwing it out there. Am just saying that we should work to avoid the shibboleths of the Lethal Left: “manifesto” is an ugly word.

    [UPDATE: Ok, am blushing a little here. After actually starting to watch the content, I see that Peterson does speak about the title and his reasons for using “manifesto”. I see his point. But I still don’t like the word.]

    2. Even the lefties shied away from using the word “manifesto” for obvious reasons. Just look at the Port Huron Statement.

  2. Don’t get me wrong, I like the cat, but I can’t sit through 40 minutes of that. When he releases the book based on this I’ll happily download it.

  3. Peterson make the same mistake that all libertarians make: That humans are rational actors.
    From Heinlein to Ayn Rand to Vinge to Friedman, a constant trope in libertarian literature is the fictitious, or at least exceedingly rare generalized “competent man.” Einstein was competent, in his field, so was Heisenberg, so was Edison or Tesla, or Musk, or Gates.
    He also contradicts himself. He’s a better debater than philosopher.

  4. “The freedom we have been divinely granted.”
    Don’t get me wrong, I believe in Natural, or God-given rights, but it seems to me that in order to avoid having these rights violated on a wholesale basis, people have had to water the tree of liberty with the blood of patriots and tyrants, over and over, since forever.

    There are a few “conservative” posters here who believe that rights are granted by the state, not by nature, or God. I call those people “aholes”, and given power, they would violate rights just as much as the left does, because, given power, they want to be the arbiter of people’s rights.
    Neo-Con and Orange Juice come to mind, both of them think the right to bear arms is dependent on the state.

    1. Agree.
      Should be “Those rights we have most bloodily asserted”.
      For the fools and bandits never learn.The right to be “left alone” is soon to be most directly reasserted, before the morons pull in their horns.
      Pain and fear of more pain,seems to be the only language they can understand.

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