Cathey Newman 'There is no comparison between Chairman Mao and a trans activist' Jordan Pieterson 'Why not? ' 'Because a transactivit isn't killing millions of people'
He's a stirrer like! I'm not a sure exactly what to make of him. I think he's excellent entertainment value and the analogy's and parralels he draws in the Bible are faciniating he actually makes me want to read it Although I have listened to a load of his lectures and the Joe Rogan podcasts I'm still none the wiser as to wether or not he actually beleves in God. On one hand he is a consumate show man and balls to the wall capitalist - on the other, there was a paticular 20/40min section on one of Rogans podcasts where you could visably see (and obviously hear) him excessively indulging whimmsical subjectivity he was veering out of his lane tying himself up in semantics and pedantics until even Joe was like 'what's the craic? And totally miss-interprets a solid half hour of chat.
I think he's great, no doubt about that, an original thinker. However his ruthless staccato delivery seems dilberatly in effect so that the interviewer or listener cant help but over-reach, like when Newman takes one to many liberties and suggests than he perhaps considers women to be less intellegent than men. This of course has never been stated and neither of them remotely believe that he thinks that yet Newman can't resist sticking the hand in the cookie jar and there's almost a linguistic sadomasochism being indulged. It's hard to explain, but it's almost as if he's 2 dimensional in a debate like that, very tall, very wide - but if decides to alter his stance 90 degrees he's invisable - or untouchable.
No my major gripe an yea it is a major gripe because Cathey Newman is just as guilty of this is they approach the defintion of sucess as wages, reward, material, immutable but to me personally this is pure obfuscation. The grimey sludge that I stink off, that 99% of people stink of - this desperation to parade their disagreeablity as if it was some great human quality and your worth is essentially measured by and with the amount of excess trinkets you can accumulate.
I hate that notion. I mean obv I want a Lambo, taliored suit and crystal goblet, but what I REALLY WOULD LOVE is absolutely nothing at all. This probably sounds like pure bullshit coming from me but what coul you want more than an absence of want. Also his pithy dismissal of art for arts sake everything hs to be about building and evolving and improving and tidying - I would love to hear his critic of Tracey Emins Bed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
That said I would much rather listen to Pieterson than Alan Watts
Who else is in this sphere of humanity,