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Offline Michael Hardner

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Re: How about a Discussion on Jordan Peterson?
« Reply #225 on: August 07, 2021, 08:18:04 am »
I don't think its generational.  Most people since the early 1980's have been effed by the system, by deregulation and whatnot.  Middle aged people have a crisis of deaths of despair.  Drugs, suicide etc. due to lost jobs and whatnot, the 2008 recession which took their homes away too.  The wealthy and corrupt are winning.  The system is corrupt and broken, the wolves have control of it.

I'm sorry but SOMEBODY is winning.  All the stats I have seen say boomers are winning, gen x are treating water and millennials are losing, on the whole.  Anybody who owns a home in Canada has huge gains, if on paper.

1. I think the point of discussion is to give your take and subject it to criticism from others so that you can refine your opinions and come to the best possible solutions to problems. 

2. There will never be mutual understanding, that's why we have different political parties etc, and sometimes the majority is just plain wrong. 

3. The # of people who agree with something has nothing to do with its rightness or wrongness.  But we all have a duty to obey the laws ie: the will of the majority, and use democratic means to try and change laws we disagree with, because the alternative is chaos.  The very foundation of our society is build on this.
1. Exactly right.  That's an exchange of ideas and our social cohesion and governance depends on it.  With the disinformation and extreme social media posts pulling us apart we need this more than ever. This is why Peterson is the wrong man at the wrong time.
2. Agreed.
3. Agreed.

So where are we, then ?  All of these things you say we need, and I agree, are needed more than ever.  In steps a guy who could help.  Instead he just engages in finger-pointing amid a bunch of flawed logic, and aligns with disreputable agents (The Rebel) to cash in.  He moralizes in the classic preacher style, while hiding his own flaws.  When I ask people to defend him, they indicate his self-help rhetoric has helped people.  Ok, then.