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[—Participant]

I don’t even have a problem with that really. The meandering delivery, I mean. I wouldn’t pay to watch it. A two-four, and the right friend and I could reproduce the same thing on the cheap in my own living room. Sometimes I even enjoy it, every sentence walking the line between abstract poetry, puzzle, and dadaism. It’s just when it’s wielded passive-aggressively in matters that might actually impact people. Then I believe the technical term for that sort of argument style is ‘being cagey as fuck’.

If Peterson and I were locked in a room together, our duelling verbosity could only end in some sort of highlander scenario. I never mastered the trick of concealing a sword in my clothing, especially since I overheat easily and can’t do duster jackets. The challenges of philosophy.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

I’ll be honest, I find it hard to understand what he’s talking about.  But there must be something about the general “stand up straight, shine your shoes” tenor that can benefit lost young men.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Here is an article about Jordan Peterson from a Vancouver interview about JP on religion.

Some of that makes sense to me straight away, but some of it I don’t understand at first sight.

[PopeBeanieModerator]

#MendOurDivides

(Yikes, is everyone else getting the YouTube this is age-restricted message? This is getting ridiculous! Now I must explain, the following video is about people and media mending the divides between left and right. This is a fairly typical, innocuous PBS piece, for fuck’s sake. BTW, when I pasted the link into Google’s chat app for my daughters, it didn’t show that message, and it links directly to the video.)

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[UnseenParticipant]

Unless they do this, Youtube won’t be able to censor the shit their corporate overlords want declared “misinformation or disinformation.”

I know one channel has been put in Youtube jail for a week more than once for inflammatory videos that simply contradict the CDC, WHO, or WEF (or even for simply quoting them!).

Free speech has come to mean “free of anything the PTB disagree with.”

[PopeBeanieModerator]

“PTB” = powers that be? Just guessing.

Did you watch the PBS video? It’s actually quite informative.

[UnseenParticipant]

Correct on PTB. I will watch it now. Promise.

[UnseenParticipant]

After watching the video, my main response is that repairable differences between ordinary folk aren’t the main problem. It’s the puppetmasters plus the fact that when it comes to some differences there is no middle ground: gun control, abortion, school prayer, etc.

For example, how much religion would you feel comfortable allowing in schools? As a compromise would you be okay with a prayer happening but kids being allowed to leave the room or just abstain from the “Amen”?

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