Peterson is to cucksters as McCluhan was to hucksters
https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1458822116686581767
Both media-friendly Canadian professors have/had hard kernels of insight but are/were used by others to push an agenda. McLuhan, Peterson and I are all from Edmonton and all claim a hardscrabble childhood. I don't profess to be in their circles but I am intrigued by this link.
Back in the day. Edmonton was a Canadian backwater, mostly a jumping off point for oil workers and the last civilized outpost before the Arctic. Its probably pretty nice now. Worth mentioning in bios as a good place to be from. edifyedmonton.com/culture/fictio…
There is also a sense of naïveté in Peterson's world view and McCluhan's. That small town view that rings true in a complicated world. Marshall said we live in a global village and Jordan doesn't want us to be prisoners of political correctness in that village. Both good ideas.
Combine the two and you see how a single statement could ricochet around the world destroying or building a person's reputation. The Global Village can become a prison. But there is another strange linkage. Both men mirror the same world view. One internal, the other external.
McCluhan focused on external chaos caused by media: "Violence in its many forms, as an involuntary quest for identity and Peterson seems to focus on the "antidote to that chaos caused by media and self identity. Both are fascinated by conflict and war. Neither have been in a war. 
By 1970 Marshall was throwing down some seriously good brain grenades in War and Peace in the Global Village. “One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.” and:
That was before Instagram and Motivational Posters. Now Jordan is the king of the quote. But you at the end of all this. We are just kids from Edmonton.
Every time I see those social media quotes I think of Ben Stiller and Wes Studi.
To understand what is happening today go back in time:
"Only we still retain
The name, and all th' additions to a king. The sway,
Revenue, execution of the rest,
Beloved sons, be yours; which to confirm, This coronet part betwixt you." - King Lear
arato.inf.unideb.hu/fazekas.gabor/…
"Only we still retain
The name, and all th' additions to a king. The sway,
Revenue, execution of the rest,
Beloved sons, be yours; which to confirm, This coronet part betwixt you." - King Lear
arato.inf.unideb.hu/fazekas.gabor/…
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