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He is back. No, I’m not talking about the Terminator or “just when you thought the nightmare was over”, Freddie Kreuger. I’m talking about Jordan B Peterson. After the world-famous psychology professor went into hiding and was treated for his drug addiction in Russia, he has posted a newly recorded video on his YouTube channel for the first time in a long time. After watching it, I can say that it is time to prepare for a second wave of the Peterson pandemic.
The first culminated, as is well known, in a world tour in 2018 where the YouTube star released his self-help book “12 Rules of Life: An Antidote to Chaos.” Like a piano playing on its own, Peterson provoked anyone who wanted to be provoked by his infallible and costumed antipk-conservatism.
The crusade was in keeping with the times and profitable private donations plummeted to the professor. In Sweden, she invested in questioning gender equality policy and irritated Margot Wallström; after that, it was, if possible, even higher in the course of troubled men from feminist mothers.
Like the parents of a child consequently, I not only had to familiarize myself with Peterson’s ideas (mix of storytelling, special thinking, and “sharpening” philosophy) and lifestyle (extreme meat diet), but also had to demonstrate my magnanimously liberal attitude by adhering to the Christmas wish of the teenager. After purchasing “12 Rules of Life”, I took comfort in the fact that 1) it was a book after all 2) that one of the rules is cleaning your room.
But the turning point for Peterson came when life caught up with him. His wife Tammy’s cancer gave him such severe anxiety that he became addicted to benzodiazepines. Finally, he had to stop his career to seek help.
During Peterson’s absence, there has been speculation; Had he suffered brain damage from the medical coma he was put into to detoxify? Why had her daughter Mikhaila, a defender of the meat diet, taken over communication with the outside world? Wasn’t it a bit strange that a self-help guru got caught up in addiction? And would it be silent forever?
This summer appeared so a video with Peterson and the daughter. They talk about being on the road to recovery after a year of near death experiences. “I’m myself again,” Peterson says blindfolded and doesn’t really look like him. Then he suffers from covid and disappears again.
When the last video comes out on October 20, I’m sure. This version of Peterson is someone to keep an eye on. He speaks slowly and seems to be reading inside the computer. But most of all, the new Peterson is vulnerable in a way that is often irresistible to women. He talks about the fact that the followers are more than ever and that he intends to dub his video lectures into other languages. Among other things, during his absence he has become very popular in South Korea.
I see in front of me how the JBP cult is gaining new momentum and how he and the daughter of the meat diet are finally achieving world domination. His cancer-stricken wife, who under the spectacular care of her husband had recovered on her own, remains in the background.
But then i go Think of an episode from the humorous classic “Three Men on a Boat.” The three friends traveling on the Thames discover that their water supply has run out. They meet an old lock guard and ask him for water. He urges them to look at the river water, as it is the water “that he himself has been drinking for the past fifteen years. To which his friends quickly decline and inform him that “his appearance is not an advertisement for the diet.”
In the same way, I suspect that Peterson’s own life is no longer just another advertisement for the “sharp” diet. It doesn’t matter how many videos you dub. But for security reasons, I press the subscribe button for the JBP channel.
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