Jordan Peterson: Descensus ad inferos – reddit

Short rant. I cannot believe how many people hate JP.

I have been listening to lectures by JP almost every day for the past 2 years. I dont care if I repeat them, they always serve me well. I started implementing his philosophy into my life.in the last two years I obtained a health care job in a career I have an education for, have received 2 raises and have been given full time hours. It took me 2 years to get the same wage and authority as my female coworkers who have been there for 5+ years (Im a male dental hygienist). I have improved my relationship with my father, and my life in general is on a steep incline that seems to be working well for me. I am happy most of the time, and when Im not, Im not getting burdened by anger and regret; simply frustration and a desire to remedy the problem.

However, my heart recently broke when I had a talk with my father. He is a left-wing Canadian who hates anything to do with the right. Anyone who identifies as right leaning gets the arbitrary label right wing nut job from him and even my own mother cannot stand him when he catches wind of political news because his reactions are immature and predictable. Thats not what hurt.

What hurt is that he finally asked me how I managed to get my shit together so well. I told him about JP, and that I was so excited to finally listen to and understand truth in a way that could benefit me and those around me.

To my chagrin, my father immediately dismissed JP as a right wing nut job. I begged him to listen to some of his interviews or lectures to better understand what he was saying. Instead my father found every sound bite possible of people who hate JP taking him out of context. When I point out how ridiculous it is to think he could be saying anything other than genuine truthful help, my father goes on about how he pushes religion and says you cant have a religious experience without magic mushrooms. I cant believe my own father is listening to this man and only hearing things he hates. Hell ignore a 10 min clip to focus on one sentence and dismiss Peterson afterwards.

Then I came on Reddit to find that theres a whole sub dedicated to straight up hating JP, taking him out of context, and making light of anything he says whatsoever.

Why does my idiot father want to hate JP so much? Why are there a colossal amount of people who havent extracted a single positive message from JP?

My real life is going great, everyone always asks me how I managed to get where I am in just 2 years but when I tell them I changed my mindset because of JP and they look him up, they dismiss him. Ask how I solved my problems dismiss the only answerwhy are so many people not only dismissive but hateful of a person who has helped so many?

It makes me weep for the future.

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