ok not really but wouldn't it be dope if he was
Rule 1 Stand up straight with your shoulders back
Rule 2 Treat yourself like you would someone you are responsible for helping
Rule 3 Make friends with people who want the best for you
Rule 4 Compare yourself with who you were yesterday, not with who someone else is today
Rule 5 Do not let your children do anything that makes you dislike them
Rule 6 Set your house in perfect order before you criticise the world
Rule 7 Pursue what is meaningful (not what is expedient)
Rule 8 Tell the truth – or, at least, don’t lie
Rule 9 Assume that the person you are listening to might know something you don’t
Rule 10 Be precise in your speech
Rule 11 Do not bother children when they are skate-boarding
Rule 12 Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street
What do these dull platitudes have in them that is so appealing to the present and future shock-troops of 21st century fascism?
The man lives in my city and I'm interested in fighting his message and his influence on my peers. I think better understanding his place in the current ideological landscape can help me with that.
Belphegor posted:Why is this the right-wing manifesto of the year?
What do these dull platitudes have in them that is so appealing to the present and future shock-troops of 21st century fascism?
i think maybe the fact that they're really dull and obvious but at the same time are being put forward by a guy with an 'intellectual' veneer might explain their appeal. like none of those points are very controversial, there's a 'common sense 'thing to them, but this guy who we are assured is very smart is saying them.
i guess he's doing an interview on a podcast with zero books which i just saw RK trashing on twitter like a week ago
le_nelson_mandela_face posted:forums poster "thug lessons" has become a follower of Nick Land based on extremely convincing pink blogs that appear to have been written by a malfunctioning demon
show me the tweets where this happened pls
bit188 posted:le_nelson_mandela_face posted:forums poster "thug lessons" has become a follower of Nick Land based on extremely convincing pink blogs that appear to have been written by a malfunctioning demon
show me the tweets where this happened pls
i dont know about tweets but he posted openly in support of it on the racist loser moron gamer offsite
see also: iq
just imagine the carnage if they got to have a mishima or a celine, instead we get to bask in the poetry of yiannopoulos humiliating himself in court defending the honour of his unpublishable word turds
shriekingviolet posted:there's a real poverty of thought in the opposition and even though it won't save us from their brute idiot violence, we should almost be thankful they don't demand a better quality in their demagogues and are willing to settle for any half baked charlatan.
just imagine the carnage if they got to have a mishima or a celine, instead we get to bask in the poetry of yiannopoulos humiliating himself in court defending the honour of his unpublishable word turds
it is fairly astonishing how lacking the present right is given some of the reactionary artists and intellectuals of the past. i stumbled on an alt right novelist a while back and it was the worst shit imaginable just on a basic level of craft
lo posted:shriekingviolet posted:there's a real poverty of thought in the opposition and even though it won't save us from their brute idiot violence, we should almost be thankful they don't demand a better quality in their demagogues and are willing to settle for any half baked charlatan.
just imagine the carnage if they got to have a mishima or a celine, instead we get to bask in the poetry of yiannopoulos humiliating himself in court defending the honour of his unpublishable word turdsit is fairly astonishing how lacking the present right is given some of the reactionary artists and intellectuals of the past. i stumbled on an alt right novelist a while back and it was the worst shit imaginable just on a basic level of craft
they just dont need to bother, and who would want to, everythings so tired now, weve done all this before, but now the structure of western monopoly control on everything is far more entrenched and the rot at the heart of imperialism has progressed to such a stage that nobody needs a charismatic demagoge or whatever, they just need a guy telling us his dad rules for why racism is fine as the seas fill up with shit and the forests burn and the world slides inexorably closer to the coming gigadeaths
For decades, students have been yawning through his rants on good posture, only to interject with "will this be on the test?", and snickering that a nebbish weirdo considers himself the last bastion of manliness. Now he has an army of millions of pepes and Greek Statue Guys ready to martyr themselves for whatever platitude pops into his head. He's somehow bumbled into the quintessential academic power fantasy.
lo posted:shriekingviolet posted:
there's a real poverty of thought in the opposition and even though it won't save us from their brute idiot violence, we should almost be thankful they don't demand a better quality in their demagogues and are willing to settle for any half baked charlatan.
just imagine the carnage if they got to have a mishima or a celine, instead we get to bask in the poetry of yiannopoulos humiliating himself in court defending the honour of his unpublishable word turds
it is fairly astonishing how lacking the present right is given some of the reactionary artists and intellectuals of the past. i stumbled on an alt right novelist a while back and it was the worst shit imaginable just on a basic level of craft
i've thought this as well -- that the quality of reactionaries is really lacking today. at other points in history, a strong reactionary movement has forced leftists to step up their game. the French utopian socialists that influenced Marx (Saint Simon, etc) talked about how working through Maistre's arguments were a huge help
but then i realized the delightful irony of pining for reactionaries to reclaim the same vital force they allegedly had in a Romanticized past
toyotathon posted:i don't give a shit about jordan peterson and that dadvice list should be embarrassing, but that it's wormed its way here is mission accomplished, all the same. fame money spends easier than scholar money i guess.
whatever
I 'wormed' it here to laugh at it, together.
also it seems like you give like three or four shits about Jordan Peterson
Belphegor posted:Rule 6 Set your house in perfect order before you criticise the world
as someone whose life was seriously derailed by years of anxiety-driven perfectionism: do not ever, ever take this advice
Belphegor posted:I 'wormed' it here to laugh at it, together.
its not funny
swampman posted:Belphegor posted:
I 'wormed' it here to laugh at it, together.
its not funny
Oh come on, you know he made up that rule about not disturbing skateboarders after some teens threw their energy drinks at him
Bablu posted:it's cool that this guy, michael ignatieff and richard florida are the top most famous university of toronto professors. glad i paid tuition there
I used to clean offices at U of T and Richard Florida's corner office was filled with kitchsy bullshit and his bookshelves were filled with dozens of copies of his own books in languages he doesn't even read. Literally 80% his own books
lo posted:it is fairly astonishing how lacking the present right is given some of the reactionary artists and intellectuals of the past. i stumbled on an alt right novelist a while back and it was the worst shit imaginable just on a basic level of craft
yeah, i like impper but fuck and destroy was unreadable
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