Jordan Peterson’s Bizarre Music Video Exposes His Break With Reality

[@ComradeCatpurrnicus]

I think Peterson is abusing apple cider again...

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

"Hannibal on the jazz again." - BA Baracus (Addendum: Just imagined Jordan Peterson in the lobster suit in place of Hannibal as the Aquamaniac and holy crap please someone make that happen 😅😂 "with George Santos as Face" "4G Autoblow as B.A. Baracus" "...and Dwight Schultz as Q")

[@Paul.......]

P00 P33 SAUCE

[@justinwatson1510]

Maybe he remembered Klonopin and ethanol act on the same receptors.

[@ComradeCatpurrnicus]

@@justinwatson1510 Ethanol? We're talking about the HARD stuff, the non alcoholic apple cider. Beware its temptations and dangers.

[@differentbutsimilar7893]

He hasn't slept in 25 days. Side note: I once managed to stay up for 3 whole days and things definitely got strange. I was playing Black Ops zombies with the homie and we were at that point having runs that would go for 8 plus hours each (often only ending when we got bored of the map, or to find more players online.) Fan on the console type gameplay. We were perfecting our strategies by exploiting each level to the max, getting better as a team. People would die and then stay in the lobby and watch for hours sometimes, commenting here and there or sometimes asking questions. This was hard science for us. My mom had gotten vendor-size (16-can) cases of full size Monster Java "White Russian" real cheap, which we basically lived on. We had basically a mini-fridge packed with Monster, a huge boon, a true bounty. That and cigarettes. And the odd McChicken run. Copious amounts of high-quality cannabis. Cannot tell you what amounts of these things I consumed, not out of secrecy, but instead out of honesty. It was... enough. So too much. Like, entirely too much. By the end of the final night I was seeing translucent zombies manifesting off in the distance of the overgrown field across from my porch. They'd rapidly come into a starkly more detailed form under the streetlamp, dash, and vanish just as fast. I was hearing all of the different sounds from the game going off in my head, as though the sound was physically in my cranium, not just my mind. Grenade explosions, gunfire, screams and shit. Those damned monkeys. The cartoonishly overacted voiceover lines for the player characters were reverberating endlessly in my braincase. Maddening. It DID make me smoke far less, which I guess was good (glad I quit that years ago.) It's not worth it if I gotta hang out with the zombies just to catch a square mannn. It's bad enough I'm already having auditory war flashbacks. I couldn't with the zombies. I was all discombobulated - it felt like nothing in the world around me made any sense and it left me perturbed, even baseline agitated. At no point did I not know it wasn't real, but it was definitely unsettling. There was a weird static over everything, electrical auras around objects. Everything seemed strange, kind of the opposite of deja vu. I know my surroundings are very familiar, but I literally feel like I'm in another town where everyone is an alien. I couldn't begin to pin down a track of mind. The part of me acting was just doing normal things but I swear I was out to lunch. And even THEN, I did not find myself experiencing ANY aspirations to make weird children's propaganda about postmodernist philosophers generally not known of outside of academic circles. What I'm saying is, I can't PROVE he's on the cider. But I suspect the cider is the missing component to why I personally was not utterly consumed by a desire to impute my absolute moral will in the form of a judgy puppet-show music video. I think there might be something to it. We all know how his constitution settles with it... direly. I am glad I did not consume any cider that evening, though admittedly I seem to tolerate it better than he does. Who knows what could've happened, y'know?

[@tylerhackner9731]

He is somehow even weirder and worse than ever. Crazy

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

He's making Don't Hug Me I'm Scared knockoff content 👍 The Jordy Petermeme ARG would be hilariously yikesy 😂 best case we get an Al Capones vault at the end of people like, looking for geocaches of buried Sheogorath ass suits and lobsters... so many lobsters

[@tinstrings6312]

Peterson strikes me as someone who can't tell the difference between pretentiousness and intellectualism.

[@Asunder09]

Spot on

[@stultusvenator3233]

I would call him a lot of things but not intellectual, just look at the company he keeps.

[@watchedgarden]

You need both.

[@wzywg]

Proof that you can fool some of the people some of the time, including yourself.

[@dl2725]

Or fresh air and his own farts

[@Cal6009]

The irony of Peterson calling anyone else pretentious is so thick you could use it to shield people from radioactive waves.

[@argophontes]

I'm more and more convinced that Peterson thinks that "postmodernism" is just a different word for "surrealism", which he thinks is just Yes album covers.

[@cathybutcher4826]

😂😂😂

[@justinwatson1510]

I almost feel kind of bad for Peterson, but then I remember him laughing about figuring out how to monetize cancel culture.

[@mofishin2648]

Feel bad for a guy that is profiting hand over fist on hateful rhetoric?

[@coffeejabberwocky]

It's funny people forget,that the now standard *speaking from a place of perfection* vibe is a facade..

[@credman]

I vaguely remember that. What was the video?

[@catsupchutney]

I think this is part of his descent. Also he was embraced by the right wing lunatic fringe when the left demonized him, so he went fully demonic. It's not unlike the journey of Ayaan Hirsi Ali who seems to have been canonized by the far right.

[@shanefoster2132]

@@mofishin2648 almost.

[@nzdoom827]

That Jordan’s poor excuse for a music video got any attention at all thoroughly debunks his ideas of meritocracy

[@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965]

Notice in the video any clips of a person walking doesn't show jordan's face and probably isn't jordan. he's so old he can barely move.

[@GrimReader]

Dunno what you mean this is a certified banger

[@tylersouza]

Sounds like somebody just can't accept the opinion of the silent majority! The numbers say it all people!! Whos "Travis Scott" and "Pink Floyd" compared to a genius like Jordan Peterson? I bet he could "rap" the heck out of any one of these rappesters like "The Baby" or "Yeet"

[@Echo81Rumple83]

or it exposed their mediocrity when it comes to creativity.

[@tmcd5049]

​@@GrimReader Certified nutjob, you mean!

[@spencerrobinson780]

I love how Sam is critically analyzing this "music video" as if Petersons head isn't just a bag of cats

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Lol, the inside of Jordy's head is like the Megadeth sweating bullets video within this one, like it's some kinda weird inception and he's got Dave mustaine trapped in there

[@nickgarris2971]

Hey as a cat lover do not compare that nut job with anything about our sweet innocent kittens

[@fukgoogle1317]

🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@mattdeinken6580]

Naw a drunk hampster and he busted his hampster wheel in a blackout haze,no cats

[@sorasorisora]

that's an insult to cats. more like Peterson's head is full of his grandma's pubic hair.

[@babaganouche9605]

"You rarely see this type of insanity with this level of production value." - Sam Seder damn

[@livesofthefreemasons]

All jokes aside anyone who lets you put this out isn’t on your side 😂

[@Argumemnon]

I think conservatives need some mental health coverage.

[@zero_wing_]

but you would need universal healthcare then xd

[@Eldritch-1]

He's Canadian and has university tenure and health benefits... he has no excuse.

[@ladyaj7784]

😂😂😂😂

[@tenkenroo]

He’s self medicating with benzos. It’s sad he doesn’t have people in his life to help him

[@TSmith-yy3cc]

Thoughts and prayers lol.

[@Devil_EMS]

I legitimately thought well into the video that the song playing was some sort of fake commercial prelude into the real song... I thought it was something supposed to be intentionally bad before the real music starts... Peterson managed to underwhelm my bottomless pit of expectations for him.

[@generationofswine-ge5rw]

Yeah! I kept thinking: long intro when does the song start? The right wing needs to stop attempting humour. They are not funny because they're too uptight and take everything personally. Plus they hold grudges over insignificant things for multiple eternities. And I've said it before and I'll say it again: Mr. Peterson needs to come out of the closet and get himself a boyfriend. he'd be much happier.

[@jessicawalton3497]

Same!

[@lyndonlives638]

@@generationofswine-ge5rw It does make you wonder...does the right wing tend to gravitate towards fascism because they're angry about the fact they don't understand how humor works, or is not understanding how humor works simply an inherent part of their ideology?!

[@1MarkKeller]

I watched it and thought that somewhere inside Peterson a part of him was crying for help.

[@TheZombiemofo]

I can't believe they sat in a room listening to the finished recording of this and went "yep, that's the one!" It's so cheesy you would usually see this type of thing if you searched "terrible songs" in KZbin.

[@puffball4484]

So apparently those Russian doctors who did that bizarre coma treatment on him also diagnosed him with a form of schizophrenia but he rejected their diagnosis. This could explain A LOT of his behavior. Emotional instability, hyper religious thinking, delusions of grandeur etc. His loved ones need to take him out of the public eye. But I think there are a lot of people around him who he's a gravy train for, particularly his daughter who co created this humiliating video. EDIT: apparently it was Canadian doctors who diagnosed him with schizophrenia, his daughter convinced him this was wrong, and directed him towards that sketchy Russian coma treatment that almost killed him. Wild. She is something else.

[@brijmsn]

Crying over manbaby problems.

[@GhostInTheMachine165]

It was Canadian doctors who diagnosed him with schizophrenia, the Russian doctors took his money and did whatever Peterson asked them to do. He got the schizophrenia diagnosis when he was looking for doctors to treat an undisclosed illness, the illness turned out to be a benzo addiction. The Petersons rejected the schizophrenia diagnosis because his daughter, Mikhaila, an internet blogger with no medical credentials, said Peterson's symptoms didn't align with her understanding of schizophrenia. It was also Mikhaila who recommended Peterson undergo this experimental coma "treatment". It should come as no surprise that no doctor in North America was willing to do this treatment (because it wouldn't have worked as explained below) but Mikhaila eventually found some clinic in Russia that was willing to do it and so she flew with Peterson to Russia so he can be put in a coma. The treatment was a failure resulting in seizures, brain damage, Peterson temporarily losing the ability to walk and speak and Mikhaila giving him COVID because she refused to listen to lockdown protocols and instead partied in nightclubs (she blamed her daughter for giving her COVID). The irony is Mikhaila, with the sheer confidence only a gifter like her has, praised the Russian "doctors" for putting her father in this coma. Final Note: It can't be stressed enough just how stupid Peterson's plan was. The sheer irony in him doing what he did when he presents himself as an authority on neuroscience is truly something incredible. His plan to cure himself of his illness (an illness that has changed various times btw) was to sleep through his addiction cravings...only problem is addiction literally rewires your brain meaning he could've starved the addiction cravings as long as he wanted, the second he woke up those cravings would still be there and be firing away because he didn't want to put in the work and form new habits (rewire those addictive neuronal pathways/address triggers). This is one of the reasons addictions are incredibly difficult to overcome. If I, who took neurobiology in undergrad and have a surface level understanding of addiction came to this realization, how did the right's smartest man not come to this realization?

[@mitchyafool.2989]

It'll get far far more worse with age and time. They'll have no other choice but to pull him from the public eye. Mark my words.

[@puffball4484]

@@GhostInTheMachine165 oh wow thank you. I didn't know it was Canadian doctors who diagnosed him. His daughter is a peice of work. I absolutely believe he is a schizophrenic. I'm not a medical clinician, but neither is she and I don't have monied incentive to keep him in the public eye like she does.

[@andrewkoster6506]

he probably has novichok poisoning, couldn't happen to a nicer guy

[@recurrenTopology]

I actually found it fascinatingly grotesque. As an artistic expression of someone's descent into utter madness I think it has some merit. It's like the strange beauty in those timelapse videos of food decaying.

[@jessecanez4419]

I find your analougous comment extremely intriguing and on point. Mine would be he must help himself before he could help others because this shit is nutty complexity.

[@NicholasFJB]

Your kidding, right? He probably had part in a good 1 percent of the production. That man is not insane, maybe you should look in the mirror- evaluate.. try to turn back from this doctrine you hold as dear to you as religious text. Maybe it’s not too late for you (lol)

[@michelehemlokhexwhite4310]

Great comment!

[@michelehemlokhexwhite4310]

​@@NicholasFJBwhat doctrine? Wtf you talking about?

[@NicholasFJB]

@@aldanieljumilla6716 I was talking directly to someone idiot, so “your” applies here. And no, I’m no where near a liberal…

[@hillbillydeluxe27]

When people say it’s a crazy world, I say “You think it’s crazy out here?? You should see what it’s like in here” and I tap the side of my head.

[@lidiagutierrez7983]

And this man is giving advice to lonely, desperate young boys? So dangerous 😮

[@SixOneNiner23]

What’s worse is what his friends do with the data of the kids that come to him for help

[@m3mn0nYT]

@@SixOneNiner23?

[@hazardousjazzgasm129]

@@SixOneNiner23 Can you elaborate on that, I'm interested in who has the data and what they're doing with it

[@SixOneNiner23]

@@hazardousjazzgasm129 a journalist on Twitter was making remarks that they are doing Cambridge Analytica type ops on people that took his courses, not cool at all. I believe the journos name is Castoro.

[@ed_leonardi]

He is so obsessed with young boys .. pretty sick!

[@neilbowler7866]

He's become his own case study.

[@handsomebarber424]

Most of them do

[@NicholasFJB]

After watching this video, and reading these comments, I am truly, most impressively shocked. Libs really, truly, believe Peterson is going mad? Laughable..

[@NoThatRyan]

​@@NicholasFJBdude, this "music video" thing is disturbing. It has no discernable narrative or message. And this isn't the first extremely bizarre thing he's done publicly. Like those coupl3 years where he would pretend to cry in interviews to show how serious he was or whatever the fuck. The guy isbdeeply unwell, and I'm not a lib.

[@NicholasFJB]

@@NoThatRyan I’m sorry, but he is not “deeply unwell”. Anyone that watches a few minutes of his can realize he’s not only sane, but highly intelligent.

[@neilbowler7866]

@@NicholasFJB I didn't say he was going mad. Period.

[@GrrMania]

I think if healthcare was free, many of the JPs of the world wouldn't feel the need to call everything "woke" and would live productive lives. Mental health is important, y'all.

[@SabertoothedTiger69]

The problem is that even with mental health care, you have to *convince* them that they need it and it's okay to accept it

[@jossypoo]

He's Canadian. Sadly, even our healthcare can't solve him.

[@goofusmaximus1482]

If he was American, he'd be in even worse shape.

[@Whythehate]

Free healthcare? But that's a)socialism which is bad, b)removing the choice of dying in the street and c)helping those less fortunate and not the rich. Of course free health care for soldiers isn't socialism or something, and in the UK it's half the cost per month than health insurance in the US, but anyway.. What's wrong with you?!!!!!!

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I've been saying for years that the reason the republikaren party hates healthcare, aside from the fact that it would have been money that they could turn over to billionaires, they realize that if people had access to mental healthcare, education, and anger management... that's the permanent end of their voter base.

[@gagaplex]

I know his fans will just say I'm not smart enough to get the nuanced satire their idol has created, but to me this is just clownish and not in a fun but in a very, very sad way.

[@MegaMEGATRUCK]

He is not beating the "every conservative commentator is a failed actor" allegations

[@jgmediting7770]

They make rather poor propagandists, thank god. Let’s hope it’s poor enough.

[@adamw8579]

you're here listening to an actual actor trying to smear an actual genius.

[@jgmediting7770]

@@adamw8579 genius?

[@Advent3546]

This feels like a cry for help.

[@lulumozba]

Actually, it would not make any sense for this public psychologist to speak at a philosophers’ conference. He doesn’t become a philosopher merely by name-dropping Richard Rorty. He isn’t a philosopher.

[@IizUname]

That's what his acolytes don't understand

[@MrSlanderer]

I like how JP has no real criticism of the CDC to rely on, and needs to lie about them in order to pander to his smoothbrain followers.

[@Doozy_Titter]

This is just so cringe...

[@theinvisiblewoman5709]

My biggest issue with the right’s critique is that it requires hyperbole 95% of the time. My biggest issues with right wing voters is that they fall for it every time.

[@G.GordonMidi]

That’s you *biggest* issue with them?? Or is that hyperbole? :)

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

There's no bigger fool than a right wing voter.

[@rhaige]

They use generalizations, and those are not the same as hyperboles. They work together. Hyperboles exemplifies that a generalization could be evidenced as truth. Especially if a hyperbole exemplifies an actual fact, or motivation of facts. Well is easy to fall for it, if the truth is what is in the flow.

[@SeiferTV]

Well, that's not true.

[@Pimpemon]

Peterson peeked when he was in his coma.

[@scaredyfish]

It’s a very confused video, because the premise is that Peterson (Taco employee) is being radicalised into anltifa by postmodern philosophy, but half of what he’s watching on TV is Perterson’s friends, so it comes across that he’s getting radicalised by Ben Shapiro and the Daily Wire.

[@MitchellPorter2025]

You've identified one of the mysteries of this video: what is the meaning of all those cameos by Daily Wire pundits? What do they mean to Peterson's character, the Taco Gulag employee? I now think they are supposed to be visibly mocking the Left. In other words, what Taco guy sees on his screen, is a mix of mainstream media being a Trojan horse for leftism, the pomo villains Foucault and Derrida who provide the intellectual rationale for the new left in power, and the ragtag iconoclasts of the Daily Wire, who are meanwhile mocking the leftist clown-world around them, e.g. by "drinking to those who won't think".

[@pierrex3226]

yeah, i thought i understood the guy's work, and i understood nothing of his song. yet i m pretty sure a song is supposed to be easier to understand than entire books. this looks and feels psychotic, in a scary, disturbing way. Whatever that is, that is not healthy, nor benevolent.

[@Evergreen0021]

Good take but I just watched in complete agony, thinking it's the worst thing I ever watched in my entire life.

[@tylerbailey9329]

Basically, JP trying his hardest to project his own insanity onto other people.

[@sigilpop]

Exactly. Narcissist are control freaks that project on other "freaks" to cover up their sociopathy.

[@1MarkKeller]

Yep!

[@3-meo-2-oxo-pce]

he's definitely projecting his insanity alright, that part comes across loud and clear

[@J0MBi]

@@3-meo-2-oxo-pce 100% projection

[@darishopkins2573]

Other people are insane. Doesn't require projection or much effort on his part.

[@rickyr1528]

This is a man who when asked if he was a prophet, stared off into the distance for 15 seconds before finally saying no.

[@cathybutcher4826]

🤣🤣🤣

[@nickfain9309]

I think that is the best single sentence I've ever heard to explain Peterson 😂

[@imjonathan6745]

theatrical as fvck kind guy

[@Treebeard1992]

Anyone else notice how his daughter was featured in a very negative light in his own music video?

[@adrienneclarke3953]

He still hasn't got over the pouty blonde Tate interview 😂😂

[@joshuaDstarks]

Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and Jordan Peterson crying.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Right wingers not grasping empathy, nuance, basic tenets of comedy, friggin' object permanence etc etc etc

[@danbridges4755]

If you look at the comment section of the actual video it's ppl talking about how brilliant this is and how brilliant JP is 🤣

[@formlessoedon3929]

I wonder why that is? /s

[@markmirabella4066]

Maybe he actually needed the benzos

[@rocket3254]

It’s all that meat

[@Junebug89]

I think what he probably needed was to actually kick his benzos addiction in the same way everyone else has to, through hard work, instead of flying to Russia to do some experimental, illegal attempt at a shortcut that fried his brain. Mr "Clean Your Room" decided to clean his own room with an atomic bomb, and surprise, surprise! There's nothing left now.

[@crumbtember]

He needs to not surround himself with entitled blackpilled doomer conservatives, additionally, if he actually cares about his mental health.

[@BlackRaven000]

And that ketamine

[@NoOne-py5or]

still isnt as weird as the way he talked about his Grandma in his book.

[@farahmaswadeh6245]

How did he talk about her?😂

[@adrienneclarke3953]

​@@farahmaswadeh6245wet dream grandma

[@NoOne-py5or]

@@farahmaswadeh6245 he talked about a dream where “he let her have her way.” stroking her pubic hair covered hand on his face

[@BlackRaven000]

​@@farahmaswadeh6245he dreamt of her nether regions 💀

[@farahmaswadeh6245]

@@BlackRaven000 Hahahahahahahahaha

[@yajy4501]

He got his understanding of postmodernism from a book by Stephen Hicks called Explaining Postmodernism. The book misattributes quotes all throughout it and misrepresents the views of nearly all the philosophers it covers. So even within the context of this weird world he thinks we live in where everyone on the left is into Foucault and Derrida, he’s still wrong. He once said he tried to read them himself but couldn’t understand them and concluded that they must simply be trying to confuse their audience.

[@boembo6627]

He just can't bare being middle brow.

[@TheZombiemofo]

If you've ever watched his videos where he attempts to be an expert on the subject matter he's discussing (eg. Climate Change or Medicine & Vaccines), his knowledge on the subject is very entry level at best, complete misinformation at its worst.

[@J0MBi]

100% and he only got picked up by the media because his message fit with a POLITICAL message certain ultra wealthy right-wing groups wanted promoted. He's a complete fraud.

[@TheFreepie]

Thats why this video is so perplexing on every level, the references go over peoples heads because nobody outside of the field knows who Derrida and Rorty are, but those who do know who they are are equally confused because the critique is so limp. "Richard rorty is truly not helpful" is that really your critique? The song fails on every level apart from i guess maybe tricking his audience because them not understanding it must mean hes smarter than them and not that it's nonsense.

[@boembo6627]

@@TheFreepie Its bullshit on every level, I've studied philosophy to degree level, JP just doesn't get it, he's not clever enough.

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

For anyone thinking that a conservative is capable of an original thought, the entire song is a parody of the Irish Rovers "Lily the Pink"

[@jossypoo]

And an old english folk song, and a song by 1960s group Scaffolds, AND the Philosopher's Song by Monty Python.

[@David-vi9jq]

And you are an authority of alternate reality, amigo.

[@immanuelcunt7296]

What do you think parody means?

[@mtlewis973]

which was a cover of The Scaffold’s “Lily the Pink”. but he does say it’s a parody.

[@nancyjay790]

I kept wondering what else this song reminded me of. "Lily the Pink"... been a stretch since I heard that.

[@ianodle5111]

Well, that was one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen.

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

There's absolutely nothing bad about being Taco Slinger of the Month and being happy with it. I thought this was the self-help guy.

[@DoctorDissonance]

Not only a self help guy, he styles himself as a kind of voice for the downtrodden young men of modernity. Say, precisely the sort of people who would have service industry jobs like that.

[@krelekari]

He molds people to be useful to him and labels it "self help" because of it. Unfortunately others agree despite everything

[@OscarLangleySoryu]

@@DoctorDissonance Exactly! What the FUCK is their grevience if they have ideal lives lmao

[@darishopkins2573]

Yes, there is.

[@LivingWithCognitiveDissonance]

​@@DoctorDissonance Yup.

[@funknotik]

It's a David Lynch fever dream video, there's no way his followers liked it. It's like masochism at this point, like what weird monstrosity can he create that they can like and feel smart about it, because it mentioned a few philsophers no one cares about anyway. LMAO

[@abyssGazerTV]

Taco Gulag is such a hard ass name for a fast food place

[@voland6846]

Or a punk band

[@Dima-px6pr]

I have never been afraid of a learned man, but I avoid those fools who consider themselves scholar and philosophy after reading some books.

[@cowboybrooklyn]

I've not seen any evidence that Jordan Peterson has ever read a single book save the Cliff';s notes of 'Crime and Punishment'

[@carorijkehaven5386]

Yup! This reminds of what happened to Socrates. He didn’t believe his friend when he told him that he was the wisest men in Athens at the time. So he wanted to prove the oracle to be wrong about it. And to his surprise, he found out the so called wise men in Athens didn’t really know much nor at all about their specialty. Most of them were simply pretentious wise men.

[@kevinwheesysouthward9295]

@@cowboybrooklynha ha. Yeah, everything always leads to Dostoevsky with him. Ha ha.

[@peagames2002]

@@carorijkehaven5386 Real wise people don't think they're enough to be called that. That is why there are people who push backbone in society without saying a word. Yet people celebrate buffoons that self state being wise.

[@lyndonlives638]

It seems like the whole point of Peterson's song is to try and skewer the ideas of postmodern philosophers, but never manages to actually achieve that goal in any way. Instead the lyrics just rapidly name-checks a bunch of postmodernists before assertively declaring some lame variation of "that person sucks". I know that structurally it's actually based on 'Lily the Pink', but given the subject matter, Monty Python's Philosophers Song is still the most relevant comparison. Monty Python's song worked because it was never really about making fun of the ideas of the philosophers mentioned in the lyrics, but more about making fun of those singing the song - who in the original skit were a bunch of beer swilling Australian "philosophy professors" all named Bruce, sitting there wearing stereotypical slouch hats and crocodile hunter style outfits. The gag was that the only thing they really knew about the famous philosophers was that they "probably drank a lot". That's what made it actually funny. This on the other hand is not funny - just cringeworthy and pathetic.

[@khill8645]

Even with Lily the Pink, you're given characters and their problems, along with how they're solved (sorta) by Lily's medicinal compond. Peterson's version just feels like the world's worst diss track as he lists off the writers he has grievances with.

[@annamari7863]

thanks for explaining

[@tal-lancer]

Peterson is the Giuliani of psychologists: he finds himself needing the best in his own field to save him.

[@RealHooksy]

I think you nailed it 😂

[@p.chuckmoralesesquire3965]

so we got douglas murray, green hair SJW, shapino, dave rubin, all these people are living memes. funny jbp would lump them all together

[@jasonashby9875]

You are kidding right dr fauchi has bin on the take since the early 80s , the great Barrington declaration is how the pandemic should have bin handled. I hate how I can't even have a kind debate with these far far left nutcase because soon as the facts come out you either yell and scream or get violent. We should be coming together not spewing hatred for either side. Sam is full of shit and driven by money,Emma I used to be a fan but you have gone to far out for me.FUCK TRUDEAU CANADA WILL RISE AGAIN WE CANADIANS ARE READY TO FIGHT AND YES WE ARE NICE PEOPLE UNTIL WERE NOT.

[@darishopkins2573]

Giuliani is kind of dumb, though. Peterson is not.

[@uberculex]

@@darishopkins2573 Yeah, he kind of is. He's stupid because he thinks he is an expert on everything he talks about.

[@IAmNumber4000]

Love how JP always frames these philosophers as having committed some grave sin by even publishing their ideas. It seems sometimes like he's not even arguing that they're wrong, but that they shouldn't have been allowed to spread their ideas at all

[@michelegagne5169]

I know it is not rational and I can't say why that is so whether I agree with him or not, but every time I've seen and/or heard Jordan Peterson, he comes across to me as a total creep.

[@bluebox1699]

That's what work looks like when you've never done work. Pappa wants the best of you.

[@1ntwndrboy198]

This is a examplification of why we need real and free mental health care.

[@scrubjay93]

It's nearly impossible to access or afford for many - since covid, demand has skyrocketed so much you can't even get a psych appointment within two months wait time 🙁

[@peagames2002]

@@asamanthinketh1937 His efforts are like typical toxic Quora mentality you would google up.

[@Junebug89]

I do actually think Monty Python is still pretty popular, even if not all members of the cast have aged as gracefully as each other.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

Donald Trump def missed his calling, could have been Minister of Silly Walks all day

[@Paul.......]

I age like i get hairy fart

[@tinstrings6312]

Hell, Graham Chapman has aged better than John Cleese.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

A fish called Wanda is still way better than has any right to be, pro tip from yo boy

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

​@@thepolarphantasm2319He wishes he had a tenth of their talent. The only way he can be funny is by accident.

[@ey3z4ya]

News flash guys: parody can still be s**t

[@kalebaldwin5398]

To paraphrase Larry David doing the voice of George Steinbrenner on Seinfeld, “What’s the matter, Peterson? You popping pills, got the crazies again?”

[@permiebird937]

"We'll drink, we'll drink, we'll drink, to Lily the pink, the pink, the pink, the savior of the human race" The original song, "Lily the Pink" was about a patent medicine that had a lot of alcohol in it.

[@085cur1ty]

for she invented medicinal compound, most efficacious in every case!

[@rezcalm3633]

Im almost convinced Jorbles' handlers are trolling him into self-parody

[@zswqade3q24]

1:20 that smirk forming on Emma's face when she knows what joke she's going to make She has really stepped up over the last couple of years, love to see it.

[@andrewkoster6506]

"The most important thing about having a daughter is that... it's about you!" --Emma Vigeland

[@john.premose]

Except she thinks the 1960s isn't postmodern. That's when postmodern began. When does she think the postmodern period was?

[@surreallife777]

These are the most bizarre times. It’s depressing.

[@dr.zoidberg8666]

The "debate" with Slavoj Zizek literally ruined this guy's life.

[@Joseph_Knight]

He is so upset at the world for not thinking how he thinks that it's driving him literally mad. I hope he gets help.

[@sigilpop]

Yes, Octavia Butler's quote "Embrace diversity or be destroyed" applies to Peterson perfectly. He's being destroyed by his own fragility.

[@Joseph_Knight]

@@sigilpop it's sad to see. I hope he gets help.

[@darishopkins2573]

He's smart and the world is dumb. All smart people, myself included, feel upset about this. Dumb people becoming smarter would help. But it's enough for most dumb people to pretend they're not dumb. We don't know what we don't know. Ignorance is bliss.

[@M.Linoge]

@@darishopkins2573 "All smart people, myself included," "it's enough for most dumb people to pretend they're not dumb. We don't know what we don't know." You don't say...

[@darrylharden203]

@@M.Linoge 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 👍🏿

[@cheretodd9949]

I can't believe a person like Peterson is willing to humiliate himself like this. He's always so "better than thou" in every appearance, now he's just having a public meltdown... Sad or funny? I can't decide. 😮

[@brijmsn]

Wouldn't be the first time...and wont be the last.

[@luna-p]

He thinks this is what passes for "not taking yourself too seriously," despite how miserably he fails at it.

[@SixOneNiner23]

Haven’t you seen his custom suits? 😂

[@sigilpop]

Pathetic

[@goodygood9467]

Funny for sure.

[@robm1438]

Does anyone else feel like there’s going to be something horrible revealed about Jordan Peterson?

[@earth_coin]

hes already proven to be an absolute sociopath and proto fascist reactionary, anyone who thinks he deserves a modicum of respect for his political rantings isnt gonna be convinced of anything at this point

[@therideneverends1697]

@@earth_coin Exactly, he could say child mol3station is good for heart health and his base would jump through flameing hoops backwards to come up with some explanation on how "Technically, before MODERNIST RULES, if she was old enough to have a period" or something to the effect of. these people are deranged and not to be debated with

[@robm1438]

@@earth_coin I'm thinking cannibalism or some kind of silence of the lambs type ending.

[@farahmaswadeh6245]

Is it not horrible enough that he supports genocide and is a zionist puppet? WHAT MORE DO PEOPLE NEED TO SEE FR WTF

[@farahmaswadeh6245]

​@@earth_coin THANK YOU SO MUCH SANE HUMAN ❤

[@P0rk_Sinigang]

Emma's smirk as she joked, "Okay, so he's trying to be current" was funny.

[@evanb4189]

Fast food employees do more work in a day than Peterson has done in his entire life.

[@bigniftydude]

No he worked on the railroad crew and grew up in northern Alberta. Nothing but manual labor for most every job there.

[@darrylharden203]

Yeah, getting a doctorate and becoming an Ivy League professor is way less work than flipping burgers and cleaning a grill. Fuck thinking and reading and writing and thinking and shit! 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿

[@farahmaswadeh6245]

I'll tell ya being a fast food employee you have more dignity and integrity than peterson ever had ...whatever degree or expertise is has no credibility anymore since he's proved to be a Racist zionist puppet

[@jakublizon6375]

Okay. Peterson's mind is gone.

[@dr.zoidberg8666]

Never had much of one, but I really do think his absolute flogging in that debate against Zizek is what made him realize it & sent him on this spiral.

[@_marlene]

Drugs. Ben Shapiro really did the man no favors by baiting him out of rehab with massive checks.

[@scottwilliams2903]

"Can you set this up?" "That's a tough question." Dead.

[@JonDundas10]

He's competely lost his marbles. This is psychotic.

[@aheroictaxidriver3180]

With the help of Jesus Christ, we will balance the Federal budget.

[@andrewgreenwood9068]

the door is well and truly on the floor

[@nicholasripp386]

JP's video looks like some student video, done with immaturity, but he believes is deep and meaningful. It ends up hilariously sending itself up.

[@stevenread5473]

Loved how he worked in the term "Gulag". He even worked in Richard Rorty a Global Human Rights advocate who advocated human rights by teaching empathy.

[@aldenjettpace9976]

That entire thing feels like something I saw in a haze on Adult Swim at 2:45am

[@luna-p]

Yes! But not in a good way. In a... Xavier Renegade Angel sort of way.

[@kegsofvomitspit]

Serious Tim & Eric vibes.

[@andrewkoster6506]

This is a fever dream. It's like Peterson made an Aamon Animations video of himself.

[@veronicahahrr]

This is certainly one of the mental breakdowns of all time

[@SteveGellerMusic]

My favorite thing about Peterson's trainwreck is that if the boring melody, unknown references, wretchedly pedantic lyrics, general creepiness and puppetry / jump cuts to make it seem like this humorless maniac is having "fun" are not enough for you, the last verse slows way down so that you get to enjoy it for 3 times the length. So not only is it awful, it's also interminable.

[@pierrex3226]

the fact that i read most of the guy's books, am generally well read, and understood essentially none of the references, scares me when i see below his video the unanimously positive comments. The whole thing felt completely psychotic to me and people are cheering.

[@SteveGellerMusic]

@@pierrex3226I had a professor once who would out-reference even the other professors in his field at the school because he was so brilliantly knowledgeable. He would cite a full poem from 13th century Gaelic writer in order to talk about 1960's American counterculture. My guess is that Jordan Peterson is citing random "scholars" that the Drudge Report found because they stood up against a pride parade in Minneapolis in 2010. It would be like someone 30 years from now quoting the "Expert Anti-Woke Scholar Vivek Ramaswamy" on the Primary Human Conflict of Our Time.

[@BassOfPj]

Lmao Peterson looks and sounds like your drunk uncle trying to organize the local open mic house band into doing some Frank Zappa esque improv.

[@andregordon2599]

Special shoutout to Matt dropping the most slick joke of the week with that "Sam, surely u are familiar with this old English Dirge"

[@apextroll]

Jordan Peterson as Skeletor is all you need to know and all that is to know.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

His skeletor will always be inferior to Jim Sterling's, but it's hard to top the Commander for such things. Also, wasn't he Red Skull? Wonder if he called an audible hoping to duck the potential beef with Disney/Marvel...?

[@bigchonkerraccoon5046]

Between the benzos, apple cider stuff, and medically induced coma in Russia, part of his brain has been damaged. Dude seems like he suffers

[@therideneverends1697]

Thing is he couldent have been right upstairs to start with, anyone who knows anything about drug use, let alone a supposedly licensed medical "professional" would know that the only thing putting yourself in a coma through a benzo withdrawl will do is let you sleep through your neuron terminals being fried. A long and slow taper is the only way to manage that kind of physical dependence without causing brain damage. He would know this through his schooling, the only way he thought what he was doing was a good idea would be if he was magically thinking he was a "special" one who was immune to it

[@charmingjinx9379]

Peterson suffers because he wants ALL the attention for his suffering, which causes more suffering.

[@adrienneclarke3953]

I think he was trying for the Messiah until he f'd it up with the give them hell comment. He reminds me of a bipolar relative, really smart, fantastic ideas but goes through the I am Godlike hear me roar, to I am a persecuted victim circle. You can hear the ups and downs in his voice and posture. I feel sorry for him when I watch him on Rogan, he obviously marvels at Joe's masculinity and doesn't want to leave the studio, so much so Joe seems to spend the last third of any show trying to wrap it up.

[@pierrex3226]

we all suffer, but this is next next next next next level. As a public person and opinion leader especially, you arent supposed to make a song about you breaking down mentally, it's terrifying.

[@TheJonnyEnglish]

This must be what being high on Bath Salts feels like

[@nickmccabe2327]

I Googled Richard Rorty and it makes sense that JP doesn’t like him What is Richard Rorty's philosophy? Rorty advocated the creation of a culture of global human rights in order to stop violations from happening through a sentimental education. He argued that we should create a sense of empathy or teach empathy to others so as to understand others' suffering.

[@colinrose3600]

I can’t believe you guys put another crappy song through the filter. Really disappointed

[@Dopecheetah]

Did I smoke crack without my knowledge or is this real? Please help either way 😂😂😂😬

[@dredhead117]

oh man. Getting through that stretch where its just Peterson's "music video" was tough

[@teslaandhumanity7383]

I remember this song Lily the pink . "Lily the Pink" is a 1968 song released by the UK comedy group The Scaffold, which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart. It is a modernisation of an older folk song titled "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham". The lyrics celebrate the "medicinal compound" invented by Lily the Pink, and humorously chronicle the "efficacious" cures it has brought about, such as inducing morbid obesity to cure a weak appetite, or bringing about a sex change as a remedy for freckles.

[@justplainrye]

JP's critiques on modernism remind me of the freshman who didn't do his homework and is just making s*** up from what they heard in the hallway

[@Treesitmedia]

Laughing hysterically and they haven't even played his video yet

[@megax5000]

It's jorp. Saves time

[@adamw8579]

bit simple

[@jimmyjambon9206]

Poor Jordy. Benzodiazepines with bourbon swirls is a hell of a thing man. Even when you quit, detox successfully and remain sober, very often you remain forever in that previous realm of madness. Jordy, rest. Shhhhh.....shhh...

[@therideneverends1697]

The rule stands and always will, dont touch downers

[@kiwihib]

The Scaffold includes Paul McCartney's brother, they had about three biggish hits here in New Zealand. Lily the pink, Gin Gan Goolie and Liverpool girls.

[@davebarta8086]

JBP isn’t a philosophy guy, he’s a pills guy.

[@Entropy106]

Philosophy is a pill itself. Nietzsche realized this

[@KnowledgeMasterThe]

Imagine listening to that song for even 10 minutes straight while being detained at Guantanamo. An hour straight would probably have me trying to gouge my eyes out. Legitimately one of the worst things I've ever seen. Thanks, gang.

[@JimmyMcBimmy]

It's funny going into the comments of any DW or other similar channel and seeing JPs fans gradually expressing their sense of cringe at this sort of stuff. It gets down-voted and criticized, but it's there. Even they know he's a joke, lol.

[@lyndonlives638]

The cognitive dissonance of slowly realizing this is what their "cool professor" idol is actually like must be a real trip!

[@jordansupplee8481]

@@asamanthinketh1937😂 Not always a popularity contest my guy, being popular doesn’t mean your always right.

[@kegsofvomitspit]

@@asamanthinketh1937: McDonald’s sells more hamburgers than any other burger joint, that doesn’t make their product high quality. You should thinketh a little more before you typeth.

[@BLooDCoMPleX]

I wish Foucault could have been alive to see this, his reaction would probably have been hilarious.

[@Sanpablo147]

Every time I see JP I leave a comment that his nervous breakdown is clearly coming any day now.

[@betadecay6503]

Coming any day now? It arrived years ago

[@Sanpablo147]

​@@betadecay6503 Yes, for sure. But I'm anticipating a complete meltdown where he can't speak and is institutionalized.

[@chimpana]

It's just so so terribly bad.

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

I've been saying this guy is insane for a long time. His ego has taken him over and he has gone insane because of it. His daughter is just the same.

[@GuitarWithBrett]

Kermit in Crisis

[@Dante-420]

This is like listening to math metal during a bad acid trip

[@rapier1954]

JP has areas of expertise but increasingly over time he has started wading into things he knows little about and that is a mistake.

[@thepolarphantasm2319]

One time Tim Pool said he would be a blacksmith after the apocalypse and it sounded 100% more realistic and well thought out than anything Jordan Peterson has said about self esteem or mental health since I've known he exists

[@IizUname]

Yeah like Jungian psychology and the big 5 personality test, but that's it

[@suewiley07]

The funniest thing is imagining someone today flipping between tv channels instead of just clicking away to a different video or stream.

[@budyza180]

The band singing the song, The Scaffold, included Paul MacCartney's younger brother, Mike, using the name Mike (I think) McGear. It was based on an old folk song which they modernized and included some inside jokes about people and things.

[@mattdeinken6580]

That music video made me sad and confused and wonder what drugs he has done throughout his life

[@SabertoothedTiger69]

None of the good ones

[@timfrye3586]

benzos and bacon

[@BlackRaven000]

Ketamine too

[@dextercool]

Critiquing theorists you've never read is the opposite of academic integrity.

[@thescoobymike]

Ah yes, the CDC encouraging drinking. Definitely a real life thing and not something he completely made up.

[@plddevries]

The violin looks like a viola in Ben Shapiro’s tiny arms, but he is not a violist and we violists would never claim him

[@ghintz2156]

He's trying to be Pink Floyd and it's so wrong in every way.