Potemkin wrote:Pfft! What do they know? Jordan Peterson has a PhD in psychology, and therefore has superhuman expertise in every field of human knowledge. It's all grist to his intellectual mill. Biology? Easy! Quantum physics? A cakewalk! We are truly blessed to have such a world-historic genius walking among us. He is the Leonardo Da Vinci of our time.
This is one of the key problems with social media. The rise of the so called thought leaders (left, right, center... it's a problem regardless). You get people that become popular due to their knowledge in one field which they are indeed an expert. Great, we all learn something. However, what starts to happen is that these people are then poked and prodded for their ideas/thoughts in areas completely outside of their expertise. People (i.e. morons) start to take these ideas as fact/truth, because, hey, this person was smart/expert in subject XYZ, so they must be smart/expert this other thing, right? Eventually these ideas get parroted by followers of these thought leaders. Additionally, followers start to poke and prod for political ideas from these thought leaders, this way they can be held up as some sort of right/left/whatever wing thought leader hero of some sort. Eventually this evolves into a kind of worshiping of people.
This kind of buffoonery really needs to stop. However, I think most of us are too stupid to understand what is happening here. This cycle repeats ad naseum; shit ideas spread across the internet, and people basically get even dumber and thus perpetuate this cycle even more strongly. It's like a race to the intellectual bottom.
I think this happens precisely because many/most of us are just too stupid even be able to really have a thought. Too many of us quickly give credit to these thought leaders; too many of us quickly submit our brains to these leaders to act as proxies for us, because we are just too god damn fucking stupid and lazy to even think a little bit.
I can think of 11780 reasons Trump shouldn't be president ever again.