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Is Peterson changing tack because his efforts to raise the alarm about totalitarianism have not slowed it down? I appreciate your comments PVK. It's valuable to point out, as you do, the changes in our societies that have occurred during this period. JBP, you, and David Fuller are all, among other things, heterodox commentators weighing in on the tumultuous socio-political dynamics of the past 6 or so years. One facet of those dynamics is well-captured by your revival analogy - surging curiosity and open-minded investigation into central questions of identity, tribe, meaning, and the like. You don't mention another facet that I think is important for interpreting JBP's changes during this period, and that is, *the intensifying operation of totalitarian controls and spreading support for totalitarian values*. By controls I mean, for example, state-direct and state-indirect censorship as well as self-censorship. By values I mean, for example, popular support for censorship and declining tolerance (e.g. increased support for punishing people who have unpopular beliefs or who don't comply with state "guidance"). Across so many domains, we are closer to constituting totalitarian societies than we were 5 years ago - when many of us first heard Jordan Peterson's analyses and warnings on this point. I am certain of this. And, JBP certainly believes this. Thus, I think it is important to take the fact that our societies have continued down the path towards totalitarianism during this period; or at least it is important to realize that Peterson perceives this. However many people listened to him and were moved by his words - his efforts did not have the effect of mobilizing enough people to get involved in pushing back against the forces moving us in a totalitarian direction. If that is the case, then we should expect him to change tacks, shouldn't we? This is how I am interpreting his recently more heated rhetoric and his decision to work with Daily Wire.

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Copypasting my comment on Rebel Wisdom and Emergent commons"

I guessed that tribalism was going to make him swing on the right since they were the only community embracing him. The left misconstructed him and demonized him to the point that why would he even try to be reasonable? It doesn't work. Basically, the left threw his shadow at him, and he stopped seeing the light.

I do have more hope for him now that he is going to be living deep into the right he is going to deal with Right's shadow like their obsession with guns while little children get regularly shot in America's classrooms and their own totalitarian leanings and I feel he is going to be leaving them too at some point and probably go back to moderation older and wiser and probably with some important lessons that he wouldn't had acquired without this deep dive into it. So wait and see "This is not even his final form"

I for one I'm very excited for this. Jordan has been stuck and repeating himself for a while which is a sign he needed new material to dig in and deconstruct and explain so now he is in a new place to do just that. Can't wait to see what he does with it.

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I have nothing but love for Jordan. The man quite literally saved my life. But I have also been growing disillusioned with his increasingly impulsive, angry, hyper-partisan persona (especially on Twitter) for at least a year now. David gave voice to something that many of us were already thinking.

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‘Settled down’ Hmm Short time frame for such judgements? Perhaps? :)

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