[quote]That he is successful owes everything to the fact that he tells a section of people what they want to hear using big words[/quote]

I think that sums it up. His main appeal is that he is a self-help guru who appeals to disaffected men who feel like they're not living their full potential. He tells those men it's leftists and feminists who are preventing them from being their authentic selves. He [i]sounds[/i] more intelligent than many people who say the same thing. I think much of his self-help advice is fine and common sense and not harmful. But I also think the fact that he seems to appeal to the incel/alt-right crowd is telling of the kind of ideology that he supports.

The same people who absolutely [i]delight[/i] in those "BEN SHAPIRO ANNIHILATES LEFTIST REPORTER!" videos on YouTube think Jordan Peterson is a sage. The rest of us think he's mostly a charlatan.

he's the right-wing's finest eye candy

The dude had a highly publicized debate over communism and didn't even read anything beyond the Communist Manifesto.

He's a fraud and a buffoon who just makes up metaphysical nonsense about the way humanity should function based on some cursory mining of western traditionalism as "good" and modernism as "bad".

I would have to look it up but did you know there were people that put fake scientific reports out and an actual medical journal picked it up? That's how easy it is to fool people. For this reason, Jordan Peterson is sort of like one of those fake science generators that generates scientific sounding sentences even though it's complete nonsense.

I'm not saying that people are dumb, I'm just saying that he takes advantage of people not knowing anything about the subjects he talks about. He knows that most people don't examine biases and won't confront him at all.

The ultimate point is, this is why people take Jordan Peterson and others who are like him seriously. He's really good at spouting utter nonsense like an internet generator and then sounding confident as he does it. So people pick that up and believe it. If you have charisma, it's like that one Family Guy episode where the guy makes Peter do terrible things, because his accent sounds good 😂🥺

What?! Peterson was just leveraging his ability to speak in snappy terms on a subject with which he was largely ignorant?!
Say it ain't so!

This is the guy who said that medicine kills more people than it saves.

[quote]"Now that's just a guess and it could easily be wrong....but it also could NOT be wrong!"[/quote]

lol fucking AMZING.

He is successful because he tells largely white suburban conservative men what they want to hear. "don't worry, it is actually everyone else who are the reactionaries." And he couches it in psycho babble that gives it an air of academic credibility.

Jordan Peterson thinks that we should all be like lobsters for maximum survival.
I however think I wouldn't like to end up in a boiling pot.

You sure took him down a notch .