It might be impossible to think that someone who has broken your heart has helped you in your journey but in their own way, theyhave.

There is a reason some of the most beautiful songs and pieces of poetry are written in times of heartbreak, and why so many people write their most inner thoughts while dealing with the loss of a relationship. Heartbreak is life altering. Breakups open your soul, split you in two, and leave you in a state of overwhelming nothingness. Voluminous vacancy. Deafening silence.

Breakups are physically and emotionally devastating because love is all-consuming. It can't not be it's love. Breakups mark the end of an era. They signify that the life you once knew is no more. And it's agonizing. When it happens, you feel like there is nothing else to live for at least, that's how I've felt when I've had my heart broken.

Heartbreak is not just a state of mind. When coping with a breakup, people may experience physical symptoms like a change in appetite, headaches, body pains, and an overall sense of unwell, Jennifer Kelman, licensed clinical social worker, told Healthline.

So how are the physical side effects of a broken heart possible? A 2011 study conducted by neuroscientist Edward Smith (and colleagues) at Columbia University explains the heartbreak phenomenon. By using fMRI scans of participants who had ended a relationship within the last six months, results demonstrated that physical pain and the end of romantic relationships are related when it comes to how the brain perceives them. When participants were shown a picture of their former partner, scans of the brain showed activity in the same area that lights up when we are in physical pain.

Knowing this, it makes perfect sense that a broken heart can put us in defense mode. The brain is, after all, telling us that the pain we feel after a breakup is not just in our heads. It is absolutely warranted, which proves the point even more that we must be gracious and patient with ourselves when trying to cope with the end of a romantic relationship.

While in the deepest and lowest points of heartbreak, I've tried to read motivational quotes and inspirational stories about "moving on after a breakup," and I haven't been able to see the silver lining not while the wound is still fresh.

In 1850, Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote, "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." It's a popular piece of poetry for a reason, and it raises the question among the heartbroken:Is it really better to have loved and lost than to have never loved atall?

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Jordan Peterson is recovering from a severe addiction to benzodiazepine tranquilizers and was recently near death in an induced coma, his daughter Mikhaila said.

He is being treated at a clinic in Russia after being repeatedly misdiagnosed at several hospitals in North America, she said.

The University of Toronto psychologist who became an intellectual hero to a global audience by aligning self-help theory with anti-progressive politics was first prescribed the medication a few years ago to treat anxiety after what Mikhaila described as an autoimmune reaction to food. His physical dependence on it became apparent to his family last April, when his wife Tammy was diagnosed with cancer.

The last year, which saw him retreat from public life after swiftly becoming one of the most famous authors in the world, has been an absolute hell, said Mikhaila, also a well known speaker on diet, who advocates eating only beef.

In November, he went to a rehabilitation centre in New York. He has previously discussed his long history of depression.

Jordan Peterson writes a column for the National Post, most recently in November.

His conditioned worsened through the winter, Mikhaila said. He was driven to thoughts of suicide by a movement disorder called akathisia, a well known side effect of various drugs for mental illnesses. It is a sense of restlessness and an inability to sit still.

It became apparent that he was experiencing a paradoxical reaction to the medication, meaning the benzos did the opposite of what theyre supposed to do. These reactions are rare but are not unheard of, Mikhaila said in the script for a video shared with the National Post.

She said the family sought alternative treatment in Russia because they found North American hospitals had misdiagnosed him, and were prescribing more medications to cover the response he was experiencing from the benzodiazepines, Mikhaila said. He nearly died several times.

She and her husband took him to Moscow last month, where he was diagnosed with pneumonia and put into an induced coma for eight days. She said his withdrawal was horrific, worse than anything she had ever heard about. She said Russian doctors are not influenced by pharmaceutical companies to treat the side-effects of one drug with more drugs, and that they have the guts to medically detox someone from benzodiazepines.

Jordan Peterson has only just come out of an intensive care unit, Mikhaila said. He has neurological damage, and a long way to go to full recovery. He is taking anti-seizure medication and cannot type or walk unaided, but is on the mend and his sense of humour has returned.

Hes smiling again for the first time in months, she said.

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Over the course of Rene Zellweger's decades-long film career, the 50-year-old actress has been gracing screens with quirky, flawed, and eminently relatable women. Each performance is a gift. Zellweger's characters don't tend to be picture-perfect Hollywood creations. Rather, they seem like real people, caught in oftentimes extraordinary situations, and that's what makes them so memorable. Incredibly, two of Zellweger's most iconic parts, Bridget Jones of Bridget Jones's Diary and Jerry Maguire's Dorothy Boyd, almost never happened. Dorothy was supposed to go to Winona Ryder, and Bridget was supposed to go to a Britnot a woman from Katy, Texas. Co-star Hugh Grant had to defend Zellweger amid serious casting controversy: "Shes very funny, and shes been living in England a long time now, mastering the accent. Itll be a triumph. I know it will," Grant told Entertainment Weekly in 2000. Now, it's difficult to imagine anyone else being able to capture Bridget's brand of hot mess-meets-endearing, or the strength of Dorothy's emotional vulnerability. Not to mention her role in Cold Mountain, which won her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. As Zellweger is currently a frontrunner to win the Oscar for Best Actress for her work in Judy, let's take a stroll through her career highlights with this list of Rene Zellweger's best movies.

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1 Love and a .45 (1994)

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Zellweger's Texas accent is out in full force as Starlene Cheatham, a small-town criminal whose schemes with her boyfriend, the equally well-named Watty Watts (Gil Bellows), spiral out of control. Love and a .45 is a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde story, marrying illegal activity with romance.

2 Jerry Maguire (1996)

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First, show me the moneythen show me how many times you've rewatched Jerry Maguire. Today, Tom Cruise and Rene Zellweger are instantly iconic as the sleek sports agent and the single mom who becomes his sole employee (and the love of his life). To think: The parts were originally written for Tom Hanks and Winona Ryder! Zellweger's character, Dorothy Boyd, says one of the most romantic movie lines: "You had me at hello."

3 The Whole Wide World (1996)

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After watching Zellweger fall in love in Jerry Maguire, watch her fall in love again in this bewitching period piece based on a true story. Zellweger plays Novalyne Price Ellis, a schoolteacher in 1930s Texas who meets pulp fiction writer (and creator of Conan the Barbarian) Robert E. Howard (Vincent D'Onofrio) when he moves to town. Sparks fly.

4 Nurse Betty (2000)

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Betty (Rene Zellweger) is on the run from the men who killed her husband. But she's chasing her delusions all the way to California, where her favorite soap actor (Greg Kinnear) lives. Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock round out the cast of this acclaimed dark comedy. You may recall, when Zellweger won the Golden Globe for Best Actress, she was in the bathroom.

5 Me, Myself, and Irene (2000)

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It takes a strong actress to not be overshadowed by Jim Carrey's larger-than-life comedic style, but Zellweger pulls it off. Irene Waters (Zellweger) is trapped on a long road trip with Charlie Baileygates (Jim Carrey), a state trooper whose recent psychotic break led to the creation of a newand erraticpersonality.

6 Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)

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Why didn't Rene Zellweger win an Academy Award for Bridget Jones's Diary? It's a question we'll be asking forever. Bridget (Zellweger) is irresistibly charming in this comedy. And she's endearing enough to think that you, too, might also find yourself caught between Cleaver (Hugh Grant) and Darcy (Colin Firth).

7 White Oleander (2002)

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Following her streak of comedies, Zellweger had a supporting role in the drama White Oleander, a movie about a troubled woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) who murders her boyfriend, leaving her daughter (Alison Lohman) adrift in the foster system. Zellweger plays one of the teenager's foster mothers.

8 Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)

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Bridget Jones strikes back in the sequel to Bridge Jones' Diary. Bridget and Darcy (Colin Firth) are happily coupled up. Now, the challenge is staying that way. Like the first movie, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is an essential installment of the golden age of rom-coms.

9 Cold Mountain (2003)

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Jude Law and Nicole Kidman have so much chemistry in this Civil War-era epic that they could light a match. It's up to Zellweger's character, Ruby, to keep Ada Monroe (Kidman) surviving until she can reunite with Inman (Law). Ruby also provides a welcome burst of energy in the movie. She won the best support actress Oscar for her performance.

10 Down With Love (2003)

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It's the ultimate oddball literary rom-com. In 1962, Barbara Novak (Zellweger) writes an incendiary new self-help book: Down With Love, Not With Sex. Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor) is determined to prove her wrong by seducing her, and exposing the flaw in her plan.

11 Chicago (2003)

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Chicago is a movie-musical that needs no introduction. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, Chicago showcases Zellweger and Catherine Zeta Jones as locked-up women who manipulate public interest to get free.

12 Cinderella Man (2005)

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It's an underdog story for the ages. James J. Braddock (Russell Crowe) had given up his boxing career after breaking his hand. During the Great Depression, he rejoins the ring, much to his wife, Mae's (Zellweger) chagrin. Still, if he's the champion, then she's going to be his biggest champion.

13 New in Town (2009)

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Lucy Hill (Zellweger) is transferred from Miami to Minnesota in this rom-com, which manages to be warm-and-fuzzy despite the freezing cold it depicts. Hired to oversee a local manufacturing plant, she's at first turned off by the endless snow and quirky residents. Ted Mitchell (Harry Connick Jr.) is a particular source of tension. But soon, she finds things growing on her.

14 Miss Potter (2006)

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Beatrix Potter created some of the most enduring characters in children's literature: Peter Rabbit, Miss Moppet, Benjamin Bunny. Potter. This biopic tells the story of how one woman defied societal norms to write her own storiesand make her own money. Zellweger got her sixth Golden Globe nom for playing the author.

15 Judy (2019)

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After winning a Golden Globe, Critics' Choice, and BAFTA, Zellweger is practically the queen of 2020 awards season for her work in this Judy Garland biopic. Judy focuses on the last few months of Garland's troubled life.

16 What/If (2019)

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It's clear Zellweger is having fun in her role as Anne Montgomery, an extremely manipulative CEO who gets involved in a young couple's marriage by presenting them with a terrible choice. This over-the-top, highly dramatic Netflix show will have you racing to hit "next" at the end of each episode.

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I hit a hornets nest at the most propitious time ... Jordan B Peterson giving a lecture at the University of Toronto. Photograph: Rene Johnston/Toronto Star/Getty Images

The Canadian psychology professor and culture warrior Jordan B Peterson could not have hoped for better publicity than his recent encounter with Cathy Newman on Channel 4 News. The more Newman inaccurately paraphrased his beliefs and betrayed her irritation, the better Peterson came across. The whole performance, which has since been viewed more than 6m times on YouTube and was described by excitable Fox News host Tucker Carlson as one of the great interviews of all time, bolstered Petersons preferred image as the coolly rational man of science facing down the hysteria of political correctness. As he told Newman in his distinctive, constricted voice, which he has compared to that of Kermit the Frog: I choose my words very, very carefully.

The confrontation has worked wonders for Peterson. His new book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos has become a runaway bestseller in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, Germany and France, making him the public intellectual du jour. Peterson is not just another troll, narcissist or blowhard whose arguments are fatally compromised by bad faith, petulance, intellectual laziness and blatant bigotry. It is harder to argue with someone who believes what he says and knows what he is talking about or at least conveys that impression. No wonder every scourge of political correctness, from the Spectator to InfoWars, is aflutter over the 55-year-old professor who appears to bring heavyweight intellectual armature to standard complaints about social-justice warriors and snowflakes. They think he could be the culture wars Weapon X.

Despite his appetite for self-promotion, Peterson claims to be a reluctant star. In a sensible world, I would have got my 15 minutes of fame, he told the Ottawa Citizen last year. I feel like Im surfing a giant wave and it could come crashing down and wipe me out, or I could ride it and continue. All of those options are equally possible.

Two years ago, he was a popular professor at the University of Toronto and a practising clinical psychologist who offered self-improvement exercises on YouTube. He published his first book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, in 1999 and appeared in Malcolm Gladwells bestseller David and Goliath, talking about the character traits of successful entrepreneurs. The tough-love, stern-dad strand of his work is represented in 12 Rules for Life, which fetes strength, discipline and honour.

His ballooning celebrity and wealth, however, began elsewhere, with a three-part YouTube series in September 2016 called Professor Against Political Correctness. Peterson was troubled by two developments: a federal amendment to add gender identity and expression to the Canadian Human Rights Act; and his universitys plans for mandatory anti-bias training. Starting from there, he railed against Marxism, human rights organisations, HR departments and an underground apparatus of radical left political motivations forcing gender-neutral pronouns on him.

This more verbose, distinctly Canadian version of Howard Beales mad as hell monologue in Network had an explosive effect. A few days later, a video of student protesters disrupting one of Petersons lectures enhanced his reputation as a doughty truth-teller. I hit a hornets nest at the most propitious time, he later reflected.

Indeed he did. Camille Paglia anointed him the most important and influential Canadian thinker since Marshall McLuhan. Economist Tyler Cowen said Peterson is currently the most influential public intellectual in the western world. For rightwing commentator Melanie Phillips, he is a kind of secular prophet in an era of lobotomised conformism. He is also adored by figures on the so-called alt-light (basically the alt-right without the sieg heils and the white ethnostate), including Mike Cernovich, Gavin McInnes and Paul Joseph Watson. His earnings from crowdfunding drives on Patreon and YouTube hits (his lectures and debates have been viewed almost 40m times), now dwarf his academic salary.

Not everybody is persuaded that Peterson is a thinker of substance, however. Last November, fellow University of Toronto professor Ira Wells called him the professor of piffle a YouTube star rather than a credible intellectual. Tabatha Southey, a columnist for the Canadian magazine Macleans, designated him the stupid mans smart person.

Petersons secret sauce is to provide an academic veneer to a lot of old-school rightwing cant, including the notion that most academia is corrupt and evil, and banal self-help patter, says Southey. Hes very much a cult thing, in every regard. I think hes a goof, which does not mean hes not dangerous.

One person who has crossed swords with Peterson declined my interview request, having experienced floods of hate mail

So, what does Peterson actually believe? He bills himself as a classic British liberal whose focus is the psychology of belief. Much of what he says is familiar: marginalised groups are infantilised by a culture of victimhood and offence-taking; political correctness threatens freedom of thought and speech; ideological orthodoxy undermines individual responsibility. You can read this stuff any day of the week and perhaps agree with some of it. However, Peterson goes further, into its most paranoid territory. His bete noire is what he calls postmodern neo-Marxism or cultural Marxism. In a nutshell: having failed to win the economic argument, Marxists decided to infiltrate the education system and undermine western values with vicious, untenable and anti-human ideas, such as identity politics, that will pave the road to totalitarianism.

Peterson studied political science and psychology, but he weaves several more disciplines evolutionary biology, anthropology, sociology, history, literature, religious studies into his grand theory. Rather than promoting blatant bigotry, like the far right, he claims that concepts fundamental to social-justice movements, such as the existence of patriarchy and other forms of structural oppression, are treacherous illusions, and that he can prove this with science. Hence: The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory. Islamophobia is a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. White privilege is a Marxist lie. Believing that gender identity is subjective is as bad as claiming that the world is flat. Unsurprisingly, he was an early supporter of James Damore, the engineer fired by Google for his memo Googles Ideological Echo Chamber.

Cathy Newman was wrong to call Peterson a provocateur, as if he were just Milo Yiannopoulos with a PhD. He is a true believer. Peterson is old enough to remember the political correctness wars of the early 90s, when conservatives such as Allan Bloom and Roger Kimball warned that campus speech codes and demands to diversify the canon were putting the US on the slippery slope to Maoism, and mainstream journalists found the counterintuitive twist what if progressives are the real fascists? too juicy to resist. Their alarmist rhetoric now seems ridiculous. Those campus battles did not lead to the Gulag. But Petersons theories hark back to that episode.

Peterson was also shaped by the cold war; he was obsessed as a young man with the power of rigid ideology to make ordinary people do terrible things. He collects Soviet realist paintings, in a know-your-enemy way, and named his first child Mikhaila, after Mikhail Gorbachev. In Professor Against Political Correctness, he says: I know something about the way authoritarian and totalitarian states develop and I cant help but think that I am seeing a fair bit of that right now.

In many ways, Peterson is an old-fashioned conservative who mourns the decline of religious faith and the traditional family, but he uses of-the-moment tactics. His YouTube gospel resonates with young white men who feel alienated by the jargon of social-justice discourse and crave an empowering theory of the world in which they are not the designated oppressors. Many are intellectually curious. On Amazon, Petersons readers seek out his favourite thinkers: Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Solzhenitsyn, Jung. His long, dense video lectures require commitment. He combines the roles of erudite professor, self-help guru and street-fighting scourge of the social-justice warrior: the missing link between Steven Pinker, Dale Carnegie and Gamergate. On Reddit, fans testify that Peterson changed, or even saved, their lives. His recent sold-out lectures in London had the atmosphere of revival meetings.

Such intense adoration can turn nasty. His more extreme supporters have abused, harassed and doxxed (maliciously published the personal information of) several of his critics. One person who has crossed swords with Peterson politely declined my request for an interview, having experienced floods of hatemail, including physical threats. Newman received so much abuse that Peterson asked his fans to back off, albeit while suggesting the scale had been exaggerated. His fans are relentless, says Southey. They have contacted me, repeatedly, on just about every platform possible.

Peterson's audience includes Christian conservatives, atheist libertarians, centrist pundits and neo-Nazis

While Peterson does not endorse such attacks, his intellectual machismo does not exactly deter them. He calls ideas he disagrees with silly, ridiculous, absurd, insane. He describes debate as combat on the battleground of ideas and hints at physical violence, too. If youre talking to a man who wouldnt fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then youre talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect, he told Paglia last year, adding that it is harder to deal with crazy women because he cannot hit them. His fans post videos with titles such as Jordan Peterson DESTROY [sic] Transgender Professor and Those 7 Times Jordan Peterson Went Beast Mode. In debate, as in life, Peterson believes in winners and losers.

How does one effectively debate a man who seems obsessed with telling his adoring followers that there is a secret cabal of postmodern neo-Marxists hellbent on destroying western civilisation and that their campus LGBTQ group is part of it? says Southey. Theres never going to be a point where he says: You know what? Youre right, I was talking out of my ass back there. Its very much about him attempting to dominate the conversation.

Petersons constellation of beliefs attracts a heterogeneous audience that includes Christian conservatives, atheist libertarians, centrist pundits and neo-Nazis. This staunch anti-authoritarian also has a striking habit of demonising the left while downplaying dangers from the right. After the 2016 US election, Peterson described Trump as a liberal and a moderate, no more of a demagogue than Reagan. In as much as Trump voters are intolerant, Peterson claims, it is the lefts fault for sacrificing the working class on the altar of identity politics. Because his contempt for identity politics includes what he calls the pathology of racial pride, he does not fully endorse the far right, but he flirts with their memes and overlaps with them on many issues.

Its true that hes not a white nationalist, says David Neiwert, the Pacific Northwest correspondent for the Southern Poverty Law Center and the author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump. But hes buttressing his narrative with pseudo-facts, many of them created for the explicit purpose of promoting white nationalism, especially the whole notion of cultural Marxism. The arc of radicalisation often passes through these more moderate ideologues.

The difference is that this individual has a title and profession that lend a certain illusory credibility, says Cara Tierney, an artist and part-time professor who protested against Petersons appearance at Ottawas National Gallery last year. Its very theatrical and shrewdly exploits platforms that thrive on spectacle, controversy, fear and prejudice. The threat is not so much what [Petersons] beliefs are, but how they detract from more critical, informed and, frankly, interesting conversations.

Consider the media firestorm last November over Lindsay Shepherd, a teaching assistant at Ontarios Wilfrid Laurier University, who was reprimanded for showing students a clip of Peterson debating gender pronouns. Her supervising professor compared it to neutrally playing a speech by Hitler, before backing down and apologising publicly. The widely reported controversy sent 12 Rules for Life racing back up the Amazon charts, leading Peterson to tweet: Apparently being compared to Hitler now constitutes publicity.

Yet Petersons commitment to unfettered free speech is questionable. Once you believe in a powerful and malign conspiracy, you start to justify extreme measures. Last July, he announced plans to launch a website that would help students and parents identify and avoid corrupt courses with postmodern content. Within five years, he hoped, this would starve postmodern neo-Marxist cult classes into oblivion. Peterson shelved the plan after a backlash, acknowledging that it might add excessively to current polarisation. Who could have predicted that blacklisting fellow professors might exacerbate polarisation? Apparently not the most influential public intellectual in the western world.

The key to Petersons appeal is also his greatest weakness. He wants to be the man who knows everything and can explain everything, without qualification or error. On Channel 4 News, he posed as an impregnable rock of hard evidence and common sense. But his arguments are riddled with conspiracy theories and crude distortions of subjects, including postmodernism, gender identity and Canadian law, that lie outside his field of expertise. Therefore, there is no need to caricature his ideas in order to challenge them. Even so, his critics will have their work cut out: Petersons wave is unlikely to come crashing down any time soon.

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"Competence Hierarchies" is a Jordan Peterson 12 Rules for Life lecture recorded in Birmingham UK (November of 2018). Thanks to our sponsors! http://trybasis.com/jordan/ https://linkedin.com/jordan https://eero.com/jordan Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life

Podcast Producer2019-11-01T23:02:34-05:00November 3rd, 2019|

Set Your House in Order is a 12 Rules for Life lecture from Jordan B. Peterson. Recorded Nov. 1, 2018 in Cambridge UK. Thanks to our sponsors: Helix: https://helixsleep.com/jordan Try Basis: http://trybasis.com/jordan/ Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12

Podcast Producer2019-10-25T09:36:21-05:00October 27th, 2019|

A standout 12 Rules for Life lecture from Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. Recorded in Edinburgh 10-28-2018. Thanks to our sponsors: Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/podcast eToro https://www.etoro.com/peterson Try Basis http://trybasis.com/jordan/ Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote

Podcast Producer2019-10-22T08:28:13-05:00October 20th, 2019|

Legendary Canadian commentator and author, Rex Murphy... interviews Jordan. This episode is truly unique! More from Rex Murphy: https://nationalpost.com/author/rmurphynp Big thanks to our sponsors! Butcher Box: http://www.butcherbox.com/jbp Eero: https://eero.com/jordan Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life:

Podcast Producer2019-10-10T14:58:08-05:00October 13th, 2019|

The Crisis of Masculinityis a lecture from Jordan's 12 Rules for Life Tour on Oct. 25, 2018 in Manchester. Thanks to our sponsors: Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/jordan Helix Sleep: https://helixsleep.com/jordan E Toro: https://www.etoro.com/peterson Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules

Podcast Producer2019-10-04T03:09:59-05:00October 6th, 2019|

Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life lecture from Dublin, Ireland. Recorded on Oct 2018. Thanks to our sponsor: https://www.pray.com/jordan Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life My first book: Maps of Meaning:

Podcast Producer2019-09-29T20:32:22-05:00September 29th, 2019|

Dr. Peterson visits Texas for a lecture on his 12 Rules for Life! This episode is a standout from his 2018 tour. Thanks to our sponsors! https://www.butcherbox.com/jbp https://helixsleep.com/jordan https://www.etoro.com/peterson https://www.ancestry.com/jordan Try Basis: https://www.elysiumhealth.com/en-us/jordan?utm_source=jbp&utm_medium=podcast&coupon=JORDAN&exp=21d Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new

Podcast Producer2019-09-20T13:30:35-05:00September 22nd, 2019|

Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life lecture from Westbury, NY. Thanks to our sponsor: Try Basis: https://www.elysiumhealth.com/en-us/jordan?utm_source=jbp&utm_medium=podcast&coupon=JORDAN&exp=21d Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life My first book: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture

Podcast Producer2019-09-13T19:07:52-05:00September 15th, 2019|

Dr. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life lecture in Rochester, NY. Recorded Sept. 5th, 2018 Thanks to our sponsors: Ancestry! https://www.ancestry.com/podcast Try Basis here! https://www.elysiumhealth.com/en-us/jordan?utm_source=jbp&utm_medium=podcast&coupon=JORDAN&exp=21d Linkedin! https://linkedin.com/jordan E-Toro! https://www.etoro.com/peterson Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An

Podcast Producer2019-09-06T12:14:38-05:00September 8th, 2019|

Jordan's 12 Rules for Life tour continues from Regina SK. Recorded August 14, 2018. Dr. Peterson focuses on Rule 10. Thanks to our sponsors! https://www.lightstream.com/jordan https://www.trybasis.com/jordan https://www.elysiumhealth.com/en-us/jordan?utm_source=jbp&utm_medium=podcast&coupon=JORDAN&exp=21d Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote

Podcast Producer2019-08-30T12:56:43-05:00September 1st, 2019|

Jordan's 12 Rules for Life lecture from Winnipeg. Recorded July of 2018. Thanks to our sponsors! https://www.ancestry.com/podcast https://www.etoro.com/peterson https://www.nhtsa.gov Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life My first book: Maps of Meaning:

Podcast Producer2019-08-23T14:22:35-05:00August 25th, 2019|

Jordan's 12 Rules for Life lecture from July, 28 2018 in Edmonton, AB. Thanks to Helix Sleep! https://helixsleep.com/jordan Also: https://www.nhtsa.gov Jordan's 12 Rules for Life lecture from July, 28 2018 in Edmonton, AB. Thanks to Helix Sleep! https://helixsleep.com/jordan Also: https://www.nhtsa.gov Relevant Links 12

Podcast Producer2019-08-19T15:49:52-05:00August 18th, 2019|

Jamil Jivani (recorded 01/09/19) joins Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. Jamil is the author of, Why Young Men. About Jamil's Book: Jamil Jivani recounts his experiences working as a youth activist throughout North America and the Middle East, drawing striking parallels between ISIS recruits, gangbangers, and Neo-Nazis

Podcast Producer2019-08-10T08:23:49-05:00August 11th, 2019|

Territory, Hierarchy, Security, and Fear Jordan B. Peterson's "12 Rules for Life" lecture from Calgary, AB Thanks to our sponsors! https://www.ancestry.com https://linkedin.com/jordan https://www.butcherbox.com Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life My first

Podcast Producer2019-08-01T12:06:21-05:00August 4th, 2019|

Steven Pinker returns for a conversation with Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. Steven Arthur Pinker is a Canadian-Americancognitive psychologist,linguist, andpopular scienceauthor. He is a professor in the Department of Psychology atHarvard University, and is known for his advocacy ofevolutionary psychologyand thecomputational theory of mind. Thanks to our

Podcast Producer2019-07-26T12:05:01-05:00July 28th, 2019|

Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life lecture from Ottawa on July, 23 2018. Big thanks to our sponsors! https://linkedin.com/jordan https://www.butcherbox.com Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life My first book: Maps of

Podcast Producer2019-07-19T10:33:05-05:00July 21st, 2019|

Jordan Peterson's recent discussion with special guest, Ben Shapiro. Thanks to our sponsors: https://tommyjohn.com/jordan https://helixsleep.com/jordan Try Basis! https://www.elysiumhealth.com/en-us/jordan?utm_source=jbp&utm_medium=podcast&coupon=JORDAN&exp=21d Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life My first book: Maps of Meaning: The

Podcast Producer2019-07-14T07:43:36-05:00July 14th, 2019|

Jordan Peterson's 2018 lecture on the 12 Rules for life from London, Ontario. Thanks to our sponsors! https://linkedin.com/jordan https://burrow.com/jordan Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life My first book: Maps of Meaning:

Podcast Producer2019-07-02T12:36:08-05:00July 7th, 2019|

Dr. Jordan Peterson delivered this talk at the Prager Summit in May in Santa Barbara. However, it's really an extended commentary on a lecture from Sydney, Australia, Feb 26, 2019, entitled Who Dares Say He Believes in God? To conclude this episode, Jordan also talks with

Podcast Producer2019-06-30T04:28:20-05:00June 30th, 2019|

"I have been asked many times by many people if I believe in God. I don't like this question. I generally respond by stating that I act as if God exists, but that's not sufficiently true. Who could do that? Who could conduct themselves with the

Podcast Producer2019-06-23T08:45:29-05:00June 23rd, 2019|

For Ep 14, we present Dr. Peterson's highly anticipated conversation with Bishop Barron. Word On Fire: https://www.wordonfire.org/bishop-robert-barron/ Thanks to our sponsors: Stamps: https://www.stamps.com Basis: https://www.trybasis.com/jordan https://www.elysiumhealth.com/en-us/jordan?utm_source=jbp&utm_medium=podcast&coupon=JORDAN&exp=21d Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:51:26-05:00June 16th, 2019|

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's "12 Rules For Life" lecture at theCenter inthe Square in Kitchener, Ontario, recorded on July 21, 2018. Thanks to our sponsors: https://burrow.com/jordan https://www.expressvpn.com/jordan https://helixsleep.com/jordan https://linkedin.com/jordan Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life:

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:51:01-05:00June 9th, 2019|

Part two of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's interview with Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan is an Americanstand-up comedian,mixed martial arts(MMA)color commentator,podcasthost,businessman, television host, and actor. Visit Mikhaila Peterson here:https://www.youtube.com/user/mikhailapeterson1 Visit Dr. Peterson here:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCL_f53ZEJxp8TtlOkHwMV9Q Thanks to our sponsors: https://tommyjohn.com/jordan Try Basis!https://www.elysiumhealth.com/en-us/jordan?utm_source=jbp&utm_medium=podcast&coupon=JORDAN&exp=21d https://www.trybasis.com/jordan Relevant Links 12 Rules

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:51:53-05:00June 2nd, 2019|

Part one of Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's interview with Joe Rogan. Joe Rogan is an Americanstand-up comedian,mixed martial arts(MMA)color commentator,podcasthost,businessman, television host, and actor. Thanks to our sponsors: https://get.candidco.com/jordan https://caavo.com https://www.awaytravel.com/jbp https://www.blinds.com Summary Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book:

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:52:30-05:00May 26th, 2019|

Today, were presentingDr. Peterson's 12 Rules for Lifelecture at the Chan Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, recorded on July26, 2018. Thanks to our sponsors: https://www.stamps.com https://www.butcherbox.com/jbp Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T11:39:09-05:00May 19th, 2019|

Today we present Dr. Peterson's conversation with journalist, performance artist, and comedian, Milo Yiannopoulos, recorded April 11, 2019. https://www.jordanbpeterson.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Hyj5sVbiYhpc_FA14nziw Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life My first book: Maps of

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:53:46-05:00May 12th, 2019|

Lecture: Hamilton, Ontario - July 20, 2018 Today, we're presenting Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life Lecture at the First Ontario Concert Hall in Hamilton, Ontario. https://www.jordanbpeterson.com https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson https://twitter.com/MikhailaAleksis https://mikhailapeterson.com Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:54:22-05:00May 5th, 2019|

Today, werepresenting Dr. Peterson'sconversation with Stephen Hicks, recorded on March 27, 2019. Stephen R. C. Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, USA, ExecutiveDirector of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society. https://www.jordanbpeterson.com http://www.stephenhicks.org http://www.stephenhicks.org/2019/04/30/ph-d-philosophers-review-explaining-postmodernism/ http://www.opencollegepodcast.org Relevant

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:55:14-05:00April 28th, 2019|

For this episode, were presenting Jordans lecture at the Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, California on June 30, 2018. Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life My first book: Maps of

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:58:01-05:00April 21st, 2019|

For this episode, were presenting Jordans lecture at The Community Theatre in Sacramento, California on June 27, 2018. Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life My first book: Maps of Meaning: The

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:57:01-05:00April 15th, 2019|

On this episode, were presenting a conversation with Akira The Don, a British musician who has used parts of Dr. Peterson's lectures in his music. Relevant Links 12 Rules for Life Live Tour:www.jordanbpeterson.com/events My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:jordanbpeterson.com/12-rules-for-life

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:58:34-05:00April 9th, 2019|

In this lecture, I describe the surprising popularity of long-form philosophical discussions, making reference to my talks with Sam Harris on science and value and religion and atheism, the vital and biologically-influenced role that temperament and personality play in determining individual interest and ability, and the

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T10:59:10-05:00April 1st, 2019|

I had the opportunity to speak recently with General Stanley McChrystal, retired four-star general, former Commander of the International Security Assistance Force and Commander, US Forces, Afghanistan. Since 2010, he has taught courses in international relations at Yale University as a Senior Fellow of the University's

Podcast Producer2019-06-16T11:34:23-05:00March 25th, 2019|

For this episode, were presenting Dr. Petersons12 Rules for Life Tour lecture at the Moore Theatre in Seattle, WA on June 21, 2018. The lecture covers the evolution of religion thinking, a true human universal. Everyone has to deal with the problem of value. Everyone has to

Dr. Jordan Peterson2019-03-11T11:53:28-05:00March 12th, 2019|

A conversation between Dr. Jordan Peterson and Sir Roger Scruton, moderated by Dr. Stephen Blackwood, introduced by Professor Douglas Hedley, presented by The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism and Ralston College, held on Nov 2,2018in Cambridge, England. God willing (so to speak) I

Dr. Jordan Peterson2019-02-26T12:01:27-05:00February 21st, 2019|

Dr Jordan Peterson speaks with Dr Stephen Blackwood about Solzhenitsyn, our cultural inflection point, higher education, and the hunger of the young for meaning. Dr Stephen Blackwood is the president of Ralston College, a new university being founded in Savannah, Georgia. Ralston College is committed

Dr. Jordan Peterson2019-02-26T12:02:09-05:00January 22nd, 2019|

Happy New Year. This is the first of this year's Q and A's. I am going to answer audience questions, as usual, as well as discussing my next book, my impending departure from Patreon, and my upcoming tour to Switzerland, California, Australia and New Zealand.

Dr. Jordan Peterson2019-02-26T12:02:16-05:00January 2nd, 2019|

On December 13, 2018, I was a guest on Femsplainers with Christina Hoff Sommers and Danielle Crittenden. We discussed, among other topics, the secrets of a long marriage, the problems with dating apps, how to handle a belligerent toddler, and the motivation of my radical

Dr. Jordan Peterson2019-02-26T12:02:21-05:00December 8th, 2018|

On December 7, 2018, I spoke with Dr. Bjorn Lomborg, author and President of Copenhagen Consensus Center, a singularly innovative and influential US-based think tank. Dr. Lomborg and his team have done the hard conceptual and empirical work necessary to turn good intentions for global

Dr. Jordan Peterson2019-02-26T12:02:27-05:00November 6th, 2018|

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Perhaps she has used that tactic to good effect elsewhere. (And the online attacks to which shes been subjected are abhorrent assaults on decency by people who are perpetrating misbehavior orders of magnitude worse than hers.)

But in the interview, Newman relies on this technique to a remarkable extent, making it a useful illustration of a much broader pernicious trend. Peterson was not evasive or unwilling to be clear about his meaning. And Newmans exaggerated restatements of his views mostly led viewers astray, not closer to the truth.

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Peterson begins the interview by explaining why he tells young men to grow up and take responsibility for getting their lives together and becoming good partners. He notes he isnt talking exclusively to men, and that he has lots of female fans.

Whats in it for the women, though? Newman asks.

Well, what sort of partner do you want? Peterson says. Do you want an overgrown child? Or do you want someone to contend with who is going to help you?

So youre saying, Newman retorts, that women have some sort of duty to help fix the crisis of masculinity. But thats not what he said. He posited a vested interest, not a duty.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful, Peterson goes on to assert. And I dont mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. Thats not power. Thats just corruption. Power is competence. And why in the world would you not want a competent partner? Well, I know why, actually, you cant dominate a competent partner. So if you want domination

The interviewer interrupts, So youre saying women want to dominate, is that what youre saying?

The next section of the interview concerns the pay gap between men and women, and whether it is rooted in gender itself or other nondiscriminatory factors:

Newman: that 9 percent pay gap, thats a gap between median hourly earnings between men and women. That exists.

Peterson: Yes. But theres multiple reasons for that. One of them is gender, but thats not the only reason. If youre a social scientist worth your salt, you never do a univariate analysis. You say women in aggregate are paid less than men. Okay. Well then we break its down by age; we break it down by occupation; we break it down by interest; we break it down by personality.

Newman: But youre saying, basically, it doesnt matter if women arent getting to the top, because thats what is skewing that gender pay gap, isnt it? Youre saying thats just a fact of life, women arent necessarily going to get to the top.

Peterson: No, Im not saying it doesnt matter, either. Im saying there are multiple reasons for it.

Newman: Yeah, but why should women put up with those reasons?

Peterson: Im not saying that they should put up with it! Im saying that the claim that the wage gap between men and women is only due to sex is wrong. And it is wrong. Theres no doubt about that. The multivariate analysis have been done. So let me give you an example

The interviewer seemed eager to impute to Peterson a belief that a large, extant wage gap between men and women is a fact of life that women should just put up with, though all those assertions are contrary to his real positions on the matter.

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Why Can't People Hear What Jordan Peterson Is Actually ...

If you hang around intellectuals or academics long enough, one of them will make the joke that they wish they were conservative because there is a lot more money in it.Jordan Peterson is living proof of that.

The Koch Brothers and the Heritage Foundation are eager to fund and promote the brightest minds conservatism has to offer. They intend to use the free market language of the right, there is a high demand for intellectuals who will defend conservative ideas, but there is a very low supply.

So if youre wondering how 55-year-old Canadian psychology professor Jordan B. Peterson became an overnight sensation, going from obscure academic to international bestseller lauded in the New York Times as most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now, you dont have to look much further than that old academic joke.

Jordan Peterson is famous because in the era of the resurgent alt-right, the loose collection of conservatives that align with white supremacists, there are few intellectuals willing to align themselves with the movement. The alt-right is in need of intellectuals to justify their fascist worldview, and Peterson has been ready.

Until 2016, Peterson languished in relative obscurity. He taught at Harvard and then at the University of Toronto after earning a Ph.D. from McGill. In the fall of 2016, he became embroiled in a controversy that would cost him his teaching position, but would ultimately launch him to stardom.

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In Canada, as in America, the rights of transgender people have been a hotly debated issue.

Peterson found himself a viral star after opposing a bill known as C-16, which sought to add gender identity and expression to laws regarding discrimination. Peterson began his now thriving YouTube career with a series of lectures arguing that asking people to refer to others by their preferred gender pronouns infringes on free speech. His stance on this issue led to an interview with Channel 4s Cathy Newman which also went viral (the video currently has nine million views).

Suddenly, Peterson was a star with a platform and an eager audience. His views include an Ayn Randian focus on the individual and masculinity, as well as darker viewpoints including anti-Social Justice Warrior screeds, critiques of feminism, the suggestion that political correctness is the undoing of Western culture, and even the implication that violence against women is okay if the woman deserves it.

If Peterson were to advocate these views outright, without a carefully constructed academic veneer, he would be treated like Richard Spencer or Milo Yiannopoulos. Even more likely, he would be largely barred from the public square. But Peterson cleverly follows the playbook of respectability, cloaking his views in Jungian archetypes, fatherly self-help diatribes, and labored academic language. He lends himself an aura of intellectual seriousness his ideas do not deserve. Beneath all the layers of pretense and respectability, Peterson is making an argument you can find at any bar in America. Its a hard world out there, he argues, so get whats yours.

Prior to this year, Petersons only published book was a tome titled Maps of Meaning. In this text, Peterson relied heavily on Swiss psychologist Carl Jung whose work involved interpreting life through mythic archetypes or deeply rooted characters and symbolic motifs that reappear in art, dreams, myths, and religions.

The primary project of Maps of Meaning was to prove modern culture is natural. By this, he means that the structures of society are in place because of how humans are meant to exist in terms both intellectual myth and evolutionary science. This is an incredibly niche subject, but it isnt hard to see why this would be appealing to conservative defenders of the status quo. His argument boils down to Make Western Civilization Great Again.

In January, Peterson released 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote for Chaos. Several hundred pages slimmer than his earlier work, the book mixes his ideas about masculinity, individualism, and mythic destiny with a self-help style manual for living.

12 Rules breaks up his long academic and philosophical digressions into chapters with titles fitting of a book like The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, like Stand Up Straight with Your Shoulders Back and Be Precise In Your Speech. With this book, Peterson rebranded as a kind of Malcolm Gladwell of the right, boiling down varied, complicated concepts into digestible chunks that support generally accepted ideas that he can then use to bolster his misogynistic, bigoted, reactionary worldview.

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In the book and lectures, Peterson contends that a man should be a dominant figure. It is feminine aspects, Peterson argues, of society that prevent men from self-actualizing. Boys are suffering in the modern world, he cautions his audience. The only way to stop the suffering is to toughen up. He refers to his female critics as rabid harpies.

Taking into account Petersons audience and particular appeal, this approach makes sense. Whether you want to talk about the alt-right, Proud Boys, Pepes, gamers (Peterson counts PewDiePie among his fans), or the economically anxious, there is a mass of young, underemployed white men who chafe at the modern liberal answers society provides. Peterson offers them a role model, a mentor, and even a father figure to look up to and affirm their isolated and often prejudiced worldview.

Understanding Petersons intellectual and cultural project will also help you understand his popular YouTube videos a little better. For example, why does Peterson spend some much time talking about Disney movies? Famously, Petersonlikes to tear into Frozen for being SJW propaganda. Remembering that Peterson is setting out to affirm a more traditional view of masculinity, free of the influence of things like Marxism, postmodernism, leftists, or what many people might call social progress, his anger makes complete sense.

While Peterson has a long list of the forces of modernity he is generally opposed to, writers like Shuja Haider of Viewpoints have pointed out that he declines to engage in direct criticism of the work of the various authors he critiques. Essentially, he rails against modernity without ever really bothering to define it. If he did, he would have to admit he is speaking of things like civil rights and gender equality. This is just one example of the kind of lack of intellectual rigor that led Macleans Tabetha Southey to call Peterson, the stupid mans smart person.

Peterson is careful not to explicitly align himself with fascists. But it isnt a giant intellectual leap from Petersons words to the actions in Charlottesville. How does one toughen up if not through violence? He says he is not of the alt-right, but he has said, If men are pushed too hard to feminize, they will become more and more interested in harsh, fascist political ideology.

Peterson tries to duck out of taking responsibility for the political actions of his followers. One of his 12 Rules is Set your house in perfect order before you criticize the world. But everything is especially political when you are positioning yourself as a cultural theorist. As the world develops around us, we are impacted every day by the worlds political realities. We pay rent on that house we have to put in order.

Nathan J. Robinson is the author of perhaps the most thorough dismantling of Petersons intellectual credibility so far. As he concludes his argument, he makes exactly this point:

Peterson speaks to disaffected millennial men, validating their prejudices about feminists and serving as a surrogate father figure. Yet hes offering them terrible advice, because the individual responsibility ethic makes one feel like a failure for failing Millennials struggle in part because of a viciously competitive economy that is crushing them with debt and a lack of opportunityBut if you cant pay your student loans, or your rent, and you cant get a better job, what use is it to tell you that you should adopt a confident lobster-posture?

Here Robinson refers to an anecdote in 12 Rules in which Peterson explains that human males, like lobsters, are subject to a rigid hierarchy of dominator and dominated. While he is welcome to indulge in whatever metaphors he likes, the sad view dominates his work. He may sound smarter than your average fascist, but his wordsare little more than furious, insignificant bluster.

The only thing you can really learn from Jordan Peterson is that while being a conservative academic might be lucrative, it certainly isnt worth it.

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Weve been told our whole lives that fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are the keys to a healthy diet. But what if thats all wrong, and the true key to health lies in animal-based products and nothing else?

Thats the idea behind the carnivore diet, an extreme eating regimen that limits people to only meat, eggs, and certain dairy products.

Again, it sounds crazy considering that countless scientific studies have found that diets high in red meats lead to cancer and other diseases. Despite that, countless people have preached the benefits of a carnivore dietsaying its helped them lose weight, heal their digestive tracts, increased their testosterone, and more.

The latest celebrity to endorse the diet is popular podcast host and UFC commentator Joe Rogan. In an Instagram post, he revealed that sticking to it for the month of January helped him shed 12 pounds and lose his belly and love handles. He added, Lots of aches and pains went away, and I have improvements in my vitiligo. Im impressed. Vitiligo is a skin condition Rogan suffers from, which causes skin discoloration.

Take a look at Rogans results.

Rogans unsure if hell continue the carnivore diet, but called the month very beneficial. It should also be noted he admits the diet made him take several trips to the bathroom, which is apparently normal on the diet.

"The explosive uber diarrhea stopped around 2 weeks in. Its been totally normal last two weeks, he wrote.

Rogans far from the only celebrity to try the carnivore diet. Here are four other big-time names who ate like cavemen.

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