Such a perfect example of a "Luxury Belief" offered by Rob Henderson, the man who invented this useful phrase:
"A truly shocking finding: Graduates of top medical schools are the most likely to support vague notions of "social justice," and the least likely to actually work in socioeconomically deprived areas."
Jordan Peterson discusses the challenge of identifying the psychopaths on the Left and on the Right. He claims that the main thing these two groups have in common is not their ideas, such as wokeness. It is their psychopathology. I created a transcript of this conversation below:
Jordan Peterson 0:02
I think that virtualization has enabled the psychopaths. Without a doubt, yeah, well, without a doubt, that's a terrible thing, because the psychopathic types, they're always the death of everything, like I'm seeing this come up on the right now. So imagine, imagine this. I've been working on a new, a new theory of political psychopathology, and I like it quite a lot. Is this
Joe Rogan 0:24
where the term the woke, right comes in?
Jordan Peterson 0:26
Yeah, well, Lindsay is pointing at that, but he hasn't got, he hasn't got the diagnosis exactly right? So it isn't woke. That's not the issue. It's not exactly,
Joe Rogan 0:36
I think one level talking about is like similar types of behavior
Jordan Peterson 0:40
he is talking about that, yeah, no,
Joe Rogan 0:42
woke just lets you clarify in your head. Oh, it's like that,
Jordan Peterson 0:46
yeah. But the problem is,
Joe Rogan 0:47
It's like, Antifa,
Jordan Peterson 0:48
Yeah, absolutely. But the problem is, is that that argument is predicated on the claim that the ideas are the problem, like the woke ideas, for example, on the right or the left. But that's not the problem. The problem is that four to 5% of the population, something like that is Cluster B, that's the DSM five terms, histrionic, narcissistic, anti social, psychopathic, and they have dark tetrad traits. They're Machiavellian, they're sadistic. That's about 4% okay, so the question is, how do these people maneuver? And the answer is, they go to where the power is and they adopt those ideas, and they put themselves even on the forefront of that.But the ideas are completely irrelevant, right? All they're doing is, they're the Pharisees. They're the modern version of the Pharisees. They're the people who use God's name in vain, right, as they proclaim moral virtue. Doesn't matter whether it's right or left or Christian or Jewish or Islam. They invade the idea space, and then they use those ideas as false weapons to advance their narcissistic advantage. And so then you have the problem, and the right is going to face this more and more particularly because the left had to face it when they were in powers.
Yes.
How do you identify the psychopathic parasites? 4% of the population who are clothed in your clothing and waving your flags, but who are only in it for narcissistic benefit.
Trump admin is clearly violating First Amendment here. How did this happen, you might wonder. I'm starting to think of this as right-wing wokeness. And how did it happen that Israel has apparently dictated much of US foreign policy for decades? AIPAC $, perhaps?
For years it has been increasingly difficult for me to have a give-and-take conversation with a Democrat. I've voted almost entirely with the Democrats all my life, and I remain committed to what were, more or less, the Democratic values that were known and accepted by the far majority of Democrats 10 to 15 years ago: anti-war, anti-censorship, don't judge people by irrelevant characteristics like the way they look, deference to the family re how to raise children, etc.
Now it is almost impossible to talk. My guiding assumption is that almost all people think and act rationally based upon what they know and believe. We live in two primary informational ecosystems, however, and the one embraced by most self-proclaimed modern day Democrats has ever-fewer connection points with those who are not in that tribe. It is for that reason that I have, indeed, been posting X links to my FB page, to the the dismay of what turns out to be a smallish group of very loud people who respond almost entirely with ad hominem attacks. I also receive many private messages thanking me for sharing these posts, many of these also adding that they can't "like" or res-hare my links because of social and economic repercussions. Such a sad state of affairs. BTW, Elon Musk has encouraged the sharing of X posts to those who are still trapped in the Matrix:
There’s basically 2 parties within the Democrat party - one focused on divisions based on race/gender/sexuality, another focused on divisions based on wealth. And both try to paper over their internal tensions by hurling histrionics at Trump for supporting policies that many of their own voters secretly agree with.
