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I also don’t subscribe to his bleak view of the world and mankind. Think his opiates dependence might have something to do with that? Very negative outlook but remedied via medication. Hardly someone to be taking inspiration from!

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Just read the piece, quite rushed. This extract encapsulates what I think about Peterson well:

‘He’s also able to weave in a lot of different topics together, where he’s got the self-help, he’s got religion, he’s got psychology, and then the politics…If you listen to one of his lectures where he’s in this lecture hall talking for  an hour, two hours, he’ll go across all these different topics and weave them, like he’s trying to give the impression that they’re all unified together. But it’s this hodgepodge of different things that maybe aren’t related. It gives this feeling of “Wow, this guy knows about everything, and he’s just so knowledgeable, and he’s giving this profound insight that other people just don’t have. I think there is definitely an impression that you’re getting genius insights from this person. I think that’s what leads to over-trusting of his information, because if he’s a genius, then why look into anything he says? He must just be correct.’

As the ‘Decoding…’ guys frequently point out about ‘guru’s’ like Peterson, they’re big on charisma and often stream of consciousness ramblings that link a lot of disparate ideas together to form a grand narrative. But when you examine what they’re actually saying (when someone like Peterson stops for breath!), it often doesn’t stand up to critical analysis. He and others like him are also very good at slipping in a ‘but I could be wrong!’ disclaimer, but equally tell you that they’re absolutely right. Very contradictory. Also, very keen to knock leftist ideas but whilst saying for instance ‘Trump is bad and I don’t agree with him’ don’t go to town on him and the far right in any way near as great length. Reminds me a bit of our old pal Bucks with a cursory ‘of course what the Tories did there is wrong’ but then proceeds to rip in to the left fir the rest of the discussion!

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I think so

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This week’s Private Eye pic.twitter.com/EdzhsJN5Dz

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Love Steve Mcqueen and Jordan the Comeback by Prefab Sprout but never heard this track (or album) that Guy Garvey played this afternoon. This is fabulous…

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Great album

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Got The Freak Zone, BBC 6 on. Playing this track from my favourite Stereolab album, Dots and Loops. Up there with my top 30 or so albums.

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Great band Blondie. Great songs. What a scene, CBGBs was. Blonde, Talking Heads, Ramones, Television etc

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Might have misheard the McConnaghy stuff. I see he’s got an autobiography out now that looks worth reading. Ordered a copy.

A mate just sent this, a piece about how Peterson uber fan became disillusioned with him through critical thinking. Haven’t read the piece as yet myself.

Haven't written about @jordanbpeterson in a while. Once he had been exposed as a charlatan, and ducked a debate, seemed no point repeating myself.

But just had a fascinating conversation with an ex-fan who explained how he came to see through Peterson:https://t.co/1ZgodbDNZE

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) June 3, 2023

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Could be an interesting 2 parter. Only listened to the opening chat about what’s coming up include Chomsky and Matthew McConnaghy, who’s got some self stuff out apparently

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Sure bpg isn’t Laurence ‘lozza’ Fox?

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Absolutely Wild West Cliff. But can you see an independent regulatory body happening soon? So in the meantime…

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https://youtu.be/YzHtePuz13U

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Depends if they’re going to get paid what they’ve been promised I suppose. Wonder what sort of wages they’ve been offered 🤔

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Castles in the air and an invisible income stream.

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Should we chip in a bit more player sponsorship to include petrol money?

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Good points Cliff. Perhaps the Trust will release a statement once there’s clarity on plan A or B?

Why does it take SST to find out what’s actually going on? He could have told Barra about Gainsborough and it needing to be ratified with the NLN this weekend.

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I’m sure a few of us do

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Might try Alexa

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Mr Sting? De do do do, de da da da? Get more sense out of him than the club

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Borrow? If only. How much is the rent? Are they training there or Ilkeston? Stop a random bloke on the street and find out.

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Certainly not heaven!

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It’s a tumultuous time for the club NI. Can’t always be hearts and flowers. The buck stops with our current owner and ex owner. They’ve precipitated all this conflict and division. The current owner is in a position to help unify the fans a bit more. Instead he’s making it worse IMO

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‘Must admit I don’t enjoy logging in as much these days. Even missing Bucksiron and Alcazar!’

I wouldn’t be so sure Alcy’s not still around NI.

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And Hilton and his acolytes wonder why there’s so much division? Joke.

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And those half a dozen twitter accounts are being blamed for potentially ‘driving him out’. Do me a favour.

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Agreed CMC. Hilton hasn’t told us about Gainsborough or nln ratification needed. We’ve had to find out from someone else. It’s a circus. Not good enough

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IB, it’s that weekly lowering of expectations again I think. A lot of fans are probably at the stage of being hopeful of seeing nln football at all next season?

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Is there a plan C?

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