Jordanetics
Jordanetics: A Journey Into the Mind of Humanity's Greatest Thinker is a non-fiction book written by Vox Day and published by Castalia House that critically examines the work of Canadian public figure and progressive social philosopher Jordan Peterson. It accuses Peterson, who was trained as a psychologist, of various forms of intellectual fraud through misdirection. The foreword is by Milo Yiannopoulos. The book was initially published on Kindle on November 19th, 2018, and in paperback format on November 30th.
Contents
Title
The name of the book is a wordplay based on Peterson's name, and the cult-like aspects of the Scientology mental therapy or indoctrination system known as Dianetics. This system makes many promises, but discourages or bans critical examination. The book alleges that Peterson's many fans are likewise unable or unwilling to examine their emotional response to Peterson's lectures. Like Dianetics, Peterson allegedly uses obscurantism to give the illusion of profound insights and the promise of improvement, but is actually a dead end. The book cover appears to depict the subject confined with a straitjacket.
Content
Jordan Peterson has become a philosophical father figure to millions of Western young men for his willingness to allow limited questioning of extreme left-wing doctrines and cultural changes that are described as Cultural Marxism or the Frankfurt School. This has made him a central figure of the Intellectual Dark Web[1] that is identified with "cuckservatism" by its opponents.
Vox Day alleges that while Peterson gives the appearance of being a political conservative, and shares many progressive beliefs with mainstream neoconservatives, he is closer to being a man of the political left. A claimed defender of free speech, he favors the deplatforming of alt right and far right commentators. Peterson is accused of being deliberately untruthful: he is allegedly willing, or feels compelled, to adapt his professed beliefs to match his audience, making him a narcissist and an intellectual charlatan. Day lays out a case that Peterson's true motives may be sinister, unbalanced, or even dangerous.[2]
External links
- Official Amazon.com page
References
- ↑ (retrieved Nov 19, 2018) https://everipedia.org/wiki/intellectual-dark-web
- ↑ Vox Popoli blog (Nov 19, 2018) http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/11/jordanetics-1-bestseller-in-political.html
