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Quick, how many cubes can you rotate in your brain? If youre struggling to even form the image of a cube in your mind, let alone rotate it, then Im sorry to say that youre not a shape rotator. You are, in fact, probably a wordcel. If you have no idea what wordcel and shape rotators are, I will explain it to you, and Im sorry your curiosity has brought you to this article.

At its base, the dichotomy is simple. Wordcels are people who are good with words. Shape rotators are people who are good with math and abstract thought. Use of the terms has skyrocketed online in the past few months, and especially in the last few days.

The term shape rotator has been floating around online for a few years now. The term wordcel has been around less than a year. Youre hearing about them now thanks to a venture capitalist and a Washington Post reporter.

On Feb. 2, Netscape co-founder turned venture capitalist Marc Andreessen tweeted what was, to most, incomprehensible gibberish.

Washington Post technology and culture columnist Taylor Lorenz screencapped Andreessens tweet and shared it with her followers. This set off a chain reaction that elevated the terms wordcel and shape rotator into the mainstream, elevating an extremely online dichotomy into a confusing and terrible new front in our horrifying culture wars.

Much of Americas culture war can be cynically flattened and viewed through the lens of these two words; woke wordcels live in the land of philosophy and books and liberal colleges, clinging to ideals espoused in their precious books, tweeting about Wordle, while shape rotators are out here coding, building businesses, doing engineering, etc. etc.

Pretty soon, Jordan Peterson was getting in on the action.

The terms connote more than their simple definitions. The suffix -cel comes from incel, and is meant to imply that the person described is a stifled loser. (A gymcel, for example, is an incel who takes solace in constantly working out.) But wordcel has no relation to sex, like other -cel. According to its supposed creator, however, it is meant as a slur or insult against people who are good with words.

In a long essay about the origins of the terms, the prolific Twitter shitposter roon claimed to have invented the term wordcel on in October of 2021 while engaging in a discourse battle online.

To the best of my knowledge, I coined the word in the heat of battle with another prodigious schizoposter (Mr. @Logo_Daedalus, whom I feel no animosity towards), and he became a kind of ur-example archetypal figure in the wordcel sphere, roon said in their essay. A deep yet largely unintelligible expert in the humanities, history and philosophy, his verbal abstractions have led him quite far from the base reality we share. While some of these types will become presidents, poets, priests, the vast majority will live and die producing little value, chasing down rhetorical dead-ends, with their scholarship forgotten. This is the central tragedy of the wordcel.

The shape rotator, too, is a common archetype of the online world. This is a person who can do their taxes in a breezy afternoon but struggles to make eye contact during dinner. They may be very good at details and bad at seeing the bigger picture, roon wrote. The demarcation isnt just between STEM and humanitiesyou will absolutely find wordcels in the STEM domainrather, its about modes of thinking. Its about realism, thing-orientation over people-orientation, and investigative grounding in the tangible world.

The etymology of shape rotator has to do with cognitive tests that feature 3D objects and ask the test taker to rotate them. These kinds of tests were popularized in the 1970s and some researchers believed the results could help predict intelligence and certain cognitive abilities. Basically, if you could quickly rotate shapes, you were probably smart and good at math according to some shape rotators in the 1970s.

And thus a new thing for people to fight about online was born. According to roon, shape rotators like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg have recently gained historical power and are changing the world. The wordcels are pissed about it and struggling to maintain their own relevancy as the world changes around them.

Thats the other important part of understanding wordcels and shape rotators. Look back at the Andreessen tweet that kicked off this fresh round of interest. Look at how roon described the formation of wordcel as a slur created in the heat of battle. This isnt just about categorizing people, its about war.

People love to sort everything into categories and then fight over the imagined differences. That is a driving factor in the use of shape rotator and wordcel. The Andreessen tweet imagined a conflict between the two factions and said the outcome was predetermined, calling the wordcels use of language asymmetric hybrid warfare.

This is an old beef, really. This is about science versus the humanities. Its about whether or not kids should focus on STEM or reading Shakespeare. Its an argument thats been playing out in academia for decades. The only difference is that its been upgraded with fancy new terms meant to appeal to the terminally online. Nerds invented a new way to measure their dicks online.

So who is winning the war, the wordcels or the shape rotators? First, culture wars arent meant to be won but to be fought continuously. But let me ask you this: Why are they shape rotators and not, say, mathcels or STEMcels? The shape rotators, going against type, have won a victory just by naming their opponents wordcels.

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-- Jordan Peterson talks with Dr. Julie Ponesse about the connection between massive protests by truckers in Ottawa and the massive protests by members of the news media against Joe Rogan.

"Your observation that the truckers and the Joe Rogans are serving as redemptive agents is a reflection of the brilliance of the idea of individual sovereignty as the basis for political stability," Peterson thought.

"Who should you consult? Not just the people with the ideas. The people who drive the trucks. Well, why? They're navigating the roads. They're delivering the goods, in a real sense. So they know things."

"They are the people. They have families. Their life is real, it is not abstracted to the point where the abstractions themselves become a problem," he said.

And I thought: Just winging it, eh? You try just winging it in front of 11 million people for five years and see if you're still standing, buddy? Do you think just winging it is so easy?

Well, first of all, why aren't you doing it if it is so damn easy?

And second, isn't it something that with all your resources, you can only garner one-tenth of the audience of one man who has like zero production expertise in a studio. He just puts it out online, and all he does is have honest conversations.

Insofar as he is capable of that. Joe stumbles and he knows and admits that. Sometimes he gets too buttoned-down on a given point. But fundamentally he's just trying to do what we're doing here.

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Keep at it, guys. Every time you attack him, it is a million more subscribers for Joe. If they kick him off Spotify, he would have a new platform in two days with twice as many listeners.

Joe has gotten to the point where, as long as he continues to be careful, and he is, I don't think he can be canceled. In fact, I think all the attempts to cancel him only redound to his credit and increase the rapidity with which he is destroying the entire legacy media.

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The only real rationale for opposing free speech, apart from ignorance... is the conclusion that you've already figured it all out. Or you're trying to hide something. Those two things go hand in hand quite frequently.

It is very often that people who are trying to hide something justify themselves with a kind of totalitarian certainty about their beliefs. They double down on them to hide their own moral iniquities.

You have to believe that people like Rogan shouldn't be allowed to just have a discussion with whoever they want and wing it --and you think that people you think you already know. If your life is perfect and you're already living in the Kingdom of God, more power to you. Maybe you're right and you can shut down discourse because the heavenly heights have already been scaled, but I haven't met anyone like that yet.

Most people I know think with not too much thought that there are some things they still have to learn and there are some ways their lives could be improved. How are we going to approach that?

If you want to find out how you're wrong, you should talk to people who don't agree with you. Maybe 90% of what they say is not worth attending to, could be, probably the same goes for you, but 10% might be just what saves you in the next crisis.

This is one of the things I loved about being a clinician. I talked to lots of people who were different from me. Like seriously different from me. And if I wasn't learning something from them it was because I wasn't conducting the discourse properly. They taught me invaluable things.

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You want to differentiate and assess your own beliefs. Why?

Your beliefs aren't a set of facts at your disposal. Your beliefs are tools that you use to navigate the world. And the more finely tuned those tools -- like, I have a shed at home with all sorts of power tools in it. One of the things I learned from renovating houses is that if the job is difficult, you don't have the right tool. And you can go down to Home Depot which has like 50,000 square feet of tools, which is phenomenal. And you can find a little gadget that someone spent half their lifetime devising and it makes that job easy. That's ideas. Ideas are tools. They're not facts.

DR. JULIE PONESSE: And you have to sharpen them. And take care of them. And keep them from getting rusty. And put them away with the right way. Your metaphor is beautiful.

So talking about both the trucker situation and the Joe Rogan situation. It seems in many respects like intellectuals, or elites, have gotten us into this mess. And it is the truckers and the Joe Rogans of the world who are getting us out of it, arguably. What does this say about education, academics, civil discourse, and democracy, moving forward?

JORDAN PETERSON: Well, it says that the highest and the lowest always have to be united. And what that means in some sense is that ---

Well, I learned that in part from watching Wagner's Die Meistersinger (The Master Singer), the opera. The libretto elaborates on that theme in an absolutely stellar manner. In his opera, it details out the actions of guilds of men. And each guild is made out of domain experts. One of the heroes is a cobbler, an expert shoemaker... and if you're a good enough cobbler, you get to sing. And if you're a good enough singer, you get to elect a Master Singer.

It is a lovely structured sequence of metaphors. And so one of the things Wagner did so well in that opera was to point out that true expertise means the differentiation of abstract knowledge all the way down to the point of behavioral implementation. This is one thing I really like about being trained as a behavioral psychologist. I'm very interested in psychoanalytic theory, but it is very abstract. Existential psychology is very abstract, the meaning of life stuff.

Like, yeah, but where does the rubber hit the road? Well, the truckers know that! They really know that because they are down there moving goods to people. They're doing the actual work in the most fine-grade manner. They might have a problem with higher-order articulation. And it is up to their leaders --

DR. JULIE PONESSE: I'm not so sure about that! I challenge every Canadian to get themselves there to have a conversation with all of these truckers. They'd be very surprised.

JORDAN PETERSON: I'm not so sure either. They don't have trouble with enunciating blunt truths.

But you were pointing to problems among the intellectuals. The intellectual chattering class is criticizing the truckers. There's a divorce between the intellectualized ethical framework and the practical reality that working-class people represent.

Your observation that the truckers and the Joe Rogans are serving as redemptive agents is a reflection of the brilliance of the idea of individual sovereignty as the basis for political stability.

It's like, well who should you consult? Not just the people with the ideas. The people who drive the trucks.

Well, why? They're navigating the roads. They're delivering the goods, in a real sense. So they know things.

DR. JULIE PONESSE: They're talking to the people.

JORDAN PETERSON: You bet. They are the people. They have families. Their life is real, it is not abstracted to the point where the abstractions themselves become a problem.

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You saw the same thing with the Yellow Jackets in France. Corrupt energy policies started to make energy too expensive for ordinary people "because we have to save the planet." Well, how about not on our backs there, guys?

We're going to see a lot more of that, I suspect. Especially if the elite-types with their Utopian schemes keep walling themselves up from the people they hypothetically represent.

This is why the U.K. voted for Brexit -- the common people thought, "Nope, [the E.U.] is too abstract. Too much of a Tower of Babel. The leaders have gotten too far away from the people they represent."

And I think they made the right decision, so, more power to Rogan and the truckers.

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Jordan Peterson: More Power To Joe Rogan And The Truckers - RealClearPolitics

Justin Herbert did something no other QB was able to do during the first half of Sundays Pro Bowl: He failed to throw an interception.

The NFC and AFC teams combined to throw six interceptions in a high-scoring first half that saw all six QBs get significant playing time. Russell Wilson threw two interceptions in eight pass attempts for the NFC while Kyler Murray and Kirk Cousins each had a pick. On the AFC side, Patrick Mahomes and Mac Jones each threw an interception among their 12 combined attempts while Herbert was 5-of-6 passing for 77 yards and two touchdowns.

We also shouldn't forget Buffalo Bills WR Stefon Diggs. He completed a pass for 15 yards and didn't get intercepted. Here's to you, Stefon.

Murray got the turnover party started on the first drive of the game with a pick-six to Indianapolis Colts linebacker Darius Leonard. The NFC got a pick-six later in the half from Antoine Winfield as he intercepted Mahomes on fourth down and then returned the ball to the end zone.

Both pick-sixes were, uh, easy returns in a half that ended with the AFC up 28-21. Thats because Sundays game had the physicality of a flag football game in the exhibition showcase. Many tackles were blown dead before players came close to touching the ground; simply grabbing an opponent was good enough for a tackle. At one point, the Browns Nick Chubb was called down simply because his undershirt was grabbed by a defender as he tried to run up field.

While the product on the field didnt resemble anything like the NFL fans are used to seeing, it was also understandable. No one needs to get injured in the Pro Bowl. But that lack of contact clearly didnt prevent any turnovers. Just ask those five quarterbacks.

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 06: Teammates Antoine Winfield Jr. #31, Mike Evans #13 and Vita Vea #50 of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers react in the first half of the game against the AFC during the 2022 NFL Pro Bowl at Allegiant Stadium on February 06, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

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Every year around this time, the parent company of Five-Hour Energy probably notices a blip in their stock price because of WFAA weatherman Pete Delkus.

That's when he stocks up on the stuff in preparation for his annual marathon of weather broadcasts for the (hopefully) single snow storm Dallas-Fort Worth gets in the winter.

"I just stay awake the whole time," Delkus says from Channel 8's newly built newsroom. "Ten or 15 years ago, in the room we'd have some sofas and stuff, and I'd lay down at 3 in the morning for 30 minutes. When I walked into the weather center, I was groggy and oh gosh, there's gonna be a tornado warning and it took me a minute to snap out of that fog."

Delkus says the bulk of the work of his marathon snow storm coverage starts long before the snow starts falling. Sometimes, people get unfair. They take to Facebook and Twitter to vent their frustration with the storm and Delkus just happens to be in their line of fire.

An old photo of a Zoli's sign expressing their rage at the weatherman seems to be making the rounds this year and even caught Delkus's attention on Facebook. There are many misconceptions about Delkus' job, aside from the fact that he only reports and does not actually control the weather.

"In the TV business, people think you only work when you're on TV," he says. "Like athletes, people only see when you play the game. The reality is all the hard work happens before the game begins."

For Delkus, the payoff is when he gets to interrupt regular programming and step in front of the weather map.

"Being on TV is the fun part," Delkus says. "You're getting paid to talk." Of course, things are considerably different with this year's storm. Last year, the air temperature in Dallas dropped to as low as 1 degree Fahrenheit and the cold lasted for five days, according to weather data from NASA.

Things can get a little heavy when the weather outlook gets more dangerous. Last year's winter weather storm led to an alarming number of power outages across the state as the electric grid failed under the record-breaking temperatures.

"That's when we have a responsibility," Delkus says. "Like that public servant, we're here to help people be safe, protect their families and stuff. That's a responsibility that none of us take too lightly but we certainly embrace and understand the heaviness of it if you will."

Even without a healthy amount of sleep, Delkus says he relishes the opportunity to inform his shivering viewers who make him a local trending topic on Twitter every year.

"That's good job security," Delkus says with a laugh. "That's what you hope for. You never set out to do that but it is a fun part of the job when you know you have people that trust you and rely on you for information. That's important to me but it's also nice to put a smile on someone's face."

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Following a tip, Khil's family, volunteers and law enforcement searched Cross Mountain Park in Fredericksburg earlier this week. However, the child wasn't located.

Our other most-read stories include Gov. Greg Abbott backpedaling on his claim the "lights will stay on" ahead of this week's freezing winter weather. His verbal acrobatics came just before30,000 San Antonians lost power in outages across the city Thursday. Also moving the meters was a review of Tool's blowout show at the AT&T Center this week.

Read on for these and more of the week's top 10 stories.

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I love music. In a world of chaos, it is the only thing that can make me feel somewhat simpatico with existence. In a world of vices with their inherent negative tradeoffs, music is one of the few things that can bring you immense joy and pleasure without some sort of negative counterbalance, like a hangover, or addiction or health concerns, or emotional entanglement. And something tells me that if youve found yourself on a niche website called Saving Country Music, you probably feel similarly.

Expressing what music means to all of us is the ever-present challenge of a music writer. Whether its music as a concept, country music in general, or a song or album specifically, attempting to describe the deep emotions music makes us feel is the evergreen struggle of the music journalist, but one that is rewarding in the fleeting moments your words rise to meet this challenge. Music expresses emotions mere words just rarely can, so the written or spoken medium is ultimately at a disadvantage. Its also one of the few things left that can bring people together across the cultural divide.

A few days ago, someone sent me a video of professor, thinker, and author Jordan Peterson talking about music on The Joe Rogan Experience. Even as toxic and polarizing as the name Joe Rogan is at the moment, Jordan Peterson takes it to another stratosphere, specifically from all of the incessant articles and think pieces about the toxicity of these two men, the characterizations of them being from the alt-right, and other hand wringing that goes along with merely mentioning their names before whatever subject at hand is even broached.

But in the 14 years of covering country music, and when composing the some 7,100 articles I have published on this site alone, I have never seen a more stunning explanation of not just what music is, but why it is so important, and why it affects us all like it does, than the one Jordan Peterson delivered on The Joe Rogan Experience. Jordan Peterson is considered by his critics as one of the most cold-hearted and callous intellectuals of our era from his severe adherence to the doctrines of self-reliance, and his ruthless dismantling of identity politics. To see him break down emotionally is hard to even comprehend, no matter what the subject matter or context happens to be. For that subject to be music makes it all the more exceptional.

And for all of the examples that Jordan Peterson could have cited in his explanation of what music is and why it moves usconcertos, Russian symphonies, soaring pop stars like Adele or Jennifer Hudsonfor his muse to be Kelleys Heroes, which is the long-standing house band of Roberts Western World bred from the Don Kelley Band of all outfitsRoberts being the very home and epicenter of the country music revolution and the last bastion of sanity on Lower Broadwaymakes the moment even more exceptional, and specifically germane to this website.

Whatever you think of Jordan Peterson, or Joe Rogan, just try and clear you mind for a second, and as a music fan, watch this:

Of course, Joe Rogan had a somewhat basic contribution by citing Jimi Hendrix. Not that Jimi Hendrix isnt an example of whats being spoken about, because he is. But its just such a default example, as opposed to the specific example Peterson cited of Ghost Riders in the Sky, from Kelleys Heroes, at Roberts Western World, with who knows what virtuoso on guitar, maybe Daniel Donato, maybe Brent Mason, maybe Guthrie Trapp or Johnny Hiland, or Luke McQueary, or any number of guys whove filled that iconic spot in Kelleys Heroes over the years.

But its Jordan Petersons words that ring so true, as he chokes back the emotion like hes standing in the Roberts Western World crowd as he speaks, overwhelmed by the joy and communion that music, and music only, can communicate.

Music is an analog of the structure of existence itself, and it calls to you to take part in that And then music does something else too. It puts you on the border of chaos and order, because a boring song does exactly what you expect it to do, and gets dull very quickly, and an unlistenable song is so random you cant follow it. And so what you want is predictability, with a leaven of unpredictability, and that puts you right on the edge. Thats the zone of proximal development.

And everyone is so taken by that because it lifts them out of the normality of their existence. You see this joy just transfuse them. And thats because they got an intimation of genuine meaning. And its not amenable to rational criticism, which is the thing that struck me as so miraculous about music, and why it has this element of salvation. It puts you directly in touch with the meaning that sustains you in life, and it shows you what that would be, which is something like to observe the harmonious interplay of the patterns of being stacked upon one another, and then to bring yourself into alignment with that.

In a couple of paragraphs, Jordan Peterson explains what I have failed to explain in over 7,100 articles posted to this website. But I keep trying. And the principles about music that Jordan Peterson conveys here guide my hand every day as I try to share the gifts of music with an audience, because as Peterson also infers, your experience with music is heightened when you share it with another.

But there is a problem with all of this, isnt there? For some, perhaps many who just read the preceding paragraphs, all the wisdom, all the beauty conveyed in that very intimate and expressive moment is tainted by the two individuals involved in it. Some, if not many, likely bailed before they even got to the quotes, or even bothered to watch the video. Transphobe, Anti-Vaxxer, Alt-Right, is what was triggered in their minds, irrespective of anything else. Similarly, some may see the name Neil Young, and immediately think Commie, Censor, Liberal. And this is the problem with all of society at the moment. And even though only one of these individuals is a musician, its specifically a music problem now too.

Aside from recognizing the name, and having some periphery notion that he had something to do with the UFC, I really had no idea who Joe Rogan was until October of 2014 when Stugill Simpson appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience for the first time. Not really being a TV guy, Id never seen an episode of Fear Factor, only caught parts and pieces of News Radio (when Joe Rogan still had hair), and had no clue he was a standup comedian at all. This occupation is apparently how Joe Rogan and Sturgill Simpson met.

Dude! Sturgills on Rogan! Sturgills on Rogan! I heard from probably a dozen readers that day in 2014, which meant virtually nothing to me, because I didnt know Joe Rogan had a podcast either. This was a few months after Sturgills album Metamodern Sounds of Country Music had been released, and was setting the independent country world on fire. So I found the podcast on YouTube, cued it up, and my jaw hit the floor. 2 hours, and 56 minutes long? Are you kidding me? And I thought episodes of This American Life were involved. Id never committed that much individual time to anything that didnt feed me, fuck me, or help put a roof over my head.

But I listened. To the whole three hours. And it was awesome. And make no mistake, that Joe Rogan podcast episode in 2014 was monstrous for helping to put Sturgill Simpson on the map. It might have been the most significant moment in Sturgill Simpsons entire career. Sturgill also appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience in April of 2016, and in March of 2018.

Shooter Jennings, Chris Stapleton, Gary Clark Jr., and Susanne Santo are also some names from the country and roots world whove appeared, and received a big boost from The Joe Rogan Experience, not to mention the mere mentions of artists such as Colter Wall, Tyler Childers, and others by Rogan on the podcast or on social media that has been significant in the development and growth of these artists and their careers, and independent country in general. You can watch the sales and streams spike in coordination with Joe Rogan mentions, and this is from a guy whose podcast really doesnt have much to do with music at all, though he has had other music personalities on in the past too such as Jewel, and especially from the hip-hop world with guys like Snoop Dogg and Killer Mike.

Since the beginning of Saving Country Music, shining a spotlight on critical moments when celebrities and influencers shout out up-and-coming artists has been an emphasis, because so often this is when careers are made. Recently, Joe Rogan was at The White Horse in Austin, TX, which is Austins equivalent to Roberts Western World in Nashvillea true honky tonk specializing in authentic country music. Rogan shot a video of and shouted out a local artist named Ellis Bullard, who just released a debut single called Roller Coaster, which right now sits atop the Saving Country Music Top 25 Playlist, and does so irrespective of the Joe Rogan shout out. Ellis Bullard has been working the honky tonks hard for a while, and is about to release his debut album. The video Rogan shot has now been viewed over a million times.

Ellis Bullard could very well be one of the next big artists to break out in independent country music, in part due to Joe Rogan. But just like the Jordan Peterson video, I was reluctant to share the news initially. Simply mentioning Joe Rogan would have immediately instigated a culture war fracas, and Ellis Bullard would have been an afterthought. That is the reality of anything involving Joe Rogan at the moment.

In many respects, Neil Young suffers from the same fate as Joe Rogan, and Jordan Petersonbeing immensely popular to many, while others experience an immediate visceral negative reaction by the mere mention of his name. Despite his polarizing nature, Neil Young deserves to be considered as one of the most important and prolific songwriters and musical performers of our time. Specific to country music, Neil Youngs string of albums Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After The Gold Rush, and Harvest released between 1969 and 1972 is as solid of a country music or country rock run of albums from any artist in any era, native to country music or otherwise. Of course, this is an opinion, but its an opinion of a staunch country music critic, not a rock critic with some country knowledge.

It was also the opinion of multiple country artists of the era. Waylon Jennings took Neil Youngs song Are You Ready For The Country? and reworked it into an Outlaw-era anthem, and made it the title track of his 1976 album. The Trio (Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt) covered Neil Youngs After The Gold Rush on their second album. Neil Young featured Don Gibsons Oh, Lonesome Me on his After The Gold Rush album. Legendary steel guitar player Ben Keith was featured on Neils Harvest.

And of course, the songs Southern Man and Alabama can be found on these Neil Young country albums alsotwo of his most polarizing songs in his catalog, not because they lash out and criticize The Souths history of racism, but because they stereotyped everyone from the region with the same broad brush, without distinction or nuance. This was the issue Lynyrd Skynyrd took with them, and ultimately became the inspiration for Sweet Home Alabama, though later, the relationship between Young and Skynyrd was less heated, and more mutually respectful. Neil Young is an activist, and has been his entire career. He came up protesting the Vietnam War and helping lead the counterculture revolution playing in Buffalo Springfield. Nobody can be surprised that at 76 and in 2022, Neil Young is still standing for what he believes in, however you may feel about those beliefs.

In some respects, even if you are a Joe Rogan fan, you cant blame Neil Young for ditching Spotify in protest. If the only thing you knew of Joe Rogan was what you read in the mainstream media instead of actually listening to his podcastwhich is the state of the vast majority of Joe Rogans detractors (as pointed out in a now viral tweet by Edward Snoden)you would think he is the most detestable human being on the planet. Hitlerian in scope.

But how many three-hour episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience has Neil Young sat through? The answer is likely near zero, similar to the people who will share hit pieces written and produced by the same legacy mainstream media Joe Rogans homespun operation is trouncing in ratings by 4 to 5 fold on a regular basis. Joe Rogan isnt just bigger than any given cable news show by multiple multipliers, at any given time, he may be trouncing all cable news shows combined.

This right herethe above graphis one of the many reasons there is a full on assault on The Joe Rogan Experience at the moment, and why there has been for the last couple of years. Cable news and the mainstream media are out to character assassinate Joe Rogan to hopefully earn back some of that market share theyve lost to him.

But if these critics were familiar with the podcast, they would know that the vast majority of what happens on The Joe Rogan Experience is not only harmless, its often superfluous. The lions share of episodes are Joe Rogan interviewing his comedian buddies, UFC commentary, man bro car/cooking/hunting/exercise talk, and general interest stuff that might be conversationally entertaining, but not always particularly enriching unless your interest is generally aligned with whomever the guest is. That is why despite being drawn into the Joe Rogan podcast world by Sturgill Simpsons appearance and other interesting personalities over the years, I never really became a Joe Rogan podcast guy.

But that doesnt mean that Joe Rogan wont drop a deep, heady episode with an important guest with a transformational perspective, or a few of them in a row. Some Joe Rogan podcasts can be downright life-altering with the amount of earth-shattering and perspective-changing information conveyed in them. It is these episodes that have made him so powerful, and also, so reviled and feared by his detractors and competitors.

Joe Rogan didnt set out to be the biggest thing in all of American media. Joe Rogan just wanted to smoke pot with his comedian buddies and talk about aliens. No big media moguls or corporations were behind ensconcing Joe Rogan as the most powerful man in media. That is part of the problem. Hes not a machination of their own hand. He exists outside of the American corporate kleptocracy, and the uniparty industrial complex. Hes not in the pocket of Big Pharma or the American defense industry.

From the beginning, Joe Rogan was the guy that talked about the subjects the mainstream media ignored, glossed over, or outright lied about. He was talking to Sturgill Simpson, not Luke Bryan. He invited on the guests everyone wanted to hear from, but others wouldnt allow a platform, and on the political left and the right. He was a consensus seeker busting through the purposeful bifurcation of America that keeps us all fighting each other and engaged with mainstream media that slants to one side or the other. Joe Rogan was a counter-puncher, and the other voice in American media. It just happens to be that over the last five years or so, the American mainstream media has so beclowned itself and fallen so demonstrably from grace due to ideological contagion, a cage-fighting commentator and 2nd rail comedian became the most trusted voice in all of America. Maybe he was not always right, but hes always real.

As the monopoly on attention that the mainstream media has enjoyed for generations began to erode, and their quick, soundbite approach to media became exposed by long form commentary, Joe Rogans listenership expanded immensley, the knives came out from his competition. Soon he was branded alt-right, even though Joe Rogan endorsed Bernie Sanders in the last Presidential election, and had Bernie Sanders on his show, along with other left-leaning thinkers on a regular basis, while endorsing ideas such as universal healthcare, universal basic income, the forgiving of student debt, and other left-leaning issues, counterbalanced only by support of the 2nd Amendment, and his opposition to COVID-19 restrictions.

But where the right accepted Joe Rogan for his political beliefs that were counter to their own, the left attempted to banish him for having the audacity to platform thinkers from the right, like Jordan Peterson, and for sharing non-mainstream-approved ideas. Joe Rogans adversaries looked to make his name a reprehensible utterance in polite society. But of course, it not only failed, if fueled curiosity in what Joe Rogan was doing. As his name became ever-present in hit pieces that ran parallel to the constricting of allowed discourse in mainstream media and on social networks, Joe Rogans listenership swelled. Similar to what weve seen with Morgan Wallen in popular country music after an incident where the singer was caught using the N-word in a private moment with a friend, the more the media attempted to undermine Joe Rogan, the more his popularity soared.

Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and others that have decided to exit Spotify are doing so because they believe Joe Rogan was sharing COVID-19 misinformation. But what few are bringing up is that Joe Rogan was an unequivocal victim of COVID-19 misinformation himself, or at least the attempted one. In September of 2021 when Rogan contracted COVID, dozens of media outlets falsely claimed that Joe Rogan took horse dewormer to rid himself of the disease. Rolling Stone, CNN, and scores of other media outlets made the Joe Rogan horse dewormer story the centerpiece of their coverage on September 1st.

Before Joe Rogan had controversial COVID-19 guests on his podcast such as Dr. Peter McCullough or Dr. Robert Malone, the media looked to enact the kill shot on Joe Rogan by knowingly falsely claiming he took horse medication, and refusing to correct the record afterwards. But if you go to kill the king, you better land the shot. And instead, the media simply perjured themselves, proved their lack of credibility, and had even more people tuning into The Joe Rogan Experience to see what all the hubub was about, and apparently, finding favor with what they found. Its also fair to wonder if by making Joe Rogan the public face of the COVID-19 counter-narrative, they compelled him to invite guests such Dr. Peter McCullough or Dr. Robert Malone on the podcast.

And Joe Rogan is right when he says that throughout the pandemic, there have been numerous ideas that initially if shared could have you stricken from social media, while they would never be discussed in the mainstream whatsoever, that ultimately proved to be true. As he said in his address/explanation/apology after Neil Youngs protest,

The problem that I have with the term misinformation is that many of the things that we thought of as misinformation just a short while ago are now accepted as fact, like for instance eight months ago if you said, If you get vaccinated, you can still catch COVID and spread COVID, you would be removed from social media. They would ban you from certain platforms. Now, thats accepted as fact. If you said, I dont think cloth masks work, you would be banned from social media. Now, thats openly and repeatedly stated on CNN. If you said, I think its possible that COVID-19 came from a lab, you would be banned from many social media platforms. Now, thats on the cover of Newsweek. All of those theories that at one point in time were banned, were openly discussed by those two men (Dr. Peter McCullough or Dr. Robert Malone) I had on my podcast that have been accused of dangerous misinformation.

Im not here to defend the words, opinions, or characterizations of COVID data by Dr. Peter McCullough, or Dr. Robert Malone as expressed on The Joe Rogan Experience, or even Joe Rogans personal views on COVID-19 and vaccines, because Im not a doctor, nor am I a COVID-19 expert. But what I will defend is the right for everyone to be allowed to express their opinion, because this is a fundamental right bestowed to all Americans.

It is distinctly anti-Democratic, illiberal, and un-American to attempt to stifle voices in opposition to you as opposed to defeating your positions in open dialogue. As Noam Chompsky once said, If we dont believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we dont believe in it at all. If you believe in the persuasion and validity of your position, and that it will win out when rigorously challenged in the marketplace of ideas, there is no reason to censor your opposition, especially since those censored ideas are only likely to crop up somewhere else where they wont be challenged. Its better to challenge those ideas head on when confronted with them.

Often when people look to stifle the voices of their opposition or work to assassinate the character of their intellectual adversaries, its because they know their arguments are flimsy, often because theyre not based in fact or truth, but strident ideologythe same strident ideology that confers you the grace to lie about someone or something, as long as youre on the perceived right side of the moral arc.

Stifling voices also commonly happens to be decisively counter-productive. All that the attempts to disallow people from sharing dissenting viewpoints from the mainstream narrative about COVID-19 has done is made voices like Joe Rogan stronger. If Neil Young and others were successful in getting Spotify to kick Joe Rogan off the Spotify platform, or otherwise neuter him where he left under his own volition, what would happen? Would he just go away and be forgotten by history? Of course not. He would be welcomed somewhere else, or start his own proprietary network, and be even more popular, and more powerful for it. Its also likely he would find that safe haven somewhere even farther to the right.

This is not to defend Joe Rogan and all of his opinions, only his right to have opinions, and to share them, and have others share his opinions through his platform. All Joe Rogan is doing is what Neil Young has been doing for his entire career (at least, up until recently), which is offering a perspective that is counter to the prevailing mainstream narrative, which even if it meets with widespread disagreement and condemnation, should still be allowed to be shared in the public marketplace, lest we allow bad ideas to prevail unchallenged, or fester in society. Its also important that Neil Young is allowed his expression of protest, and leaving Spotify is his right.

Too often instances like the attempted cancellation of Joe Rogan take on the fever of a societal contagion, where people feel compelled to agree with the prevailing sentiment in their friend networks or sphere of influence, or end up being admonished or isolated themselves. This is how we saw the United States get into the war in Iraq under false pretenses, and eventually the cancellation of the (Dixie) Chicks in country music. The Chicks had the audacity to speak up against the prevailing mindset, and ultimately ended up on the right side of history.

Meanwhile, as we all scream back and forth at each other about the latest culture war clash, few are focused on how the military industrial complex and American mainstream media are a sabre rattling for a war in Ukraine that even the Ukrainians are saying America is overreacting about, and America has no vested interest in aside from helping to pad the pockets of defense contractors now that weve exited Afghanistan, which is suffering from historic famine in the wake of our exit.

Its likely to be months and years before we are able to get far enough away from the COVID-19 pandemic to where we can truly judge all the decisions made with a cool mind and deep data. Until then, we should welcome criticism of consensus opinions. After all, dissenting viewpoint have already proven to be right on numerous occasions.

And yes, the way Spotify compensates artists and songwriters (or doesnt), is certainly a dynamic to this story, but it also isnt. When Neil Young decided to use his protest to partner with Amazon Music to offer four months free to new subscribers, the idea that any of this was about artist compensation in the streaming era went out the window.

Remember, when Apple Music first launched, Taylor Swift initially refused to allow her music to be on the platform because they were offering a free trial period as well. Apple Music later backed down. Now Neil Young and Amazon are using the same free trial which takes money directly out of the music economy as a promotional incentive against Spotify. Meanwhile, the effects on Spotify by the exit of Neil Young and others will be marginal, while the next place this story may turn is how dark money from private equity might have instigated the whole thing as a way to bank off of Spotifys temporary stock plummet through hedge fund shorts.

But one fair concern here is how if artists and fans choose to flee Spotify for other platforms, and start to self-curate and stratify across streaming networks along ideological lines similar to how cable news networks cater to one side or the other, it will become just another bifurcation point of American society. We wont even be able to stream music on the same platforms anymore, repulsed by our neighbors who dare listen to that service that Joe Rogan is on, or dare listen to the one he isnt on.

Its also unclear how much longer all the COVID-19 rhetoric and infighting will even be relevant anymore. Very likely, the pandemic is on its last legs, and countries like England and Denmark are already opening up in full and easing all restrictions. A recent Monmouth poll says now 70% of Americans are ready to move on. How we all feel about restrictions, masks, vaccines, and mandates may have a shelf life of weeks as Omicron streaks through the population, and quickly dissipates leaving the disease endemic though of course, weve told this before.

The simple fact is that Joe Rogan and Neil Young probably have a lot more in common than they dont. Theyre both anti-establishment figures. They both have made careers challenging prevailing narratives. They both are distrusting of higher authority, and have made their names expressing as much. I would love to watch Neil Young on The Joe Rogan Experience. I think they would find a lot of common ground, and have a lot to discuss.

Because the thing is, most of this modern polarization boils down to bullshit. When two people meet face to face, in-person like what happens on The Joe Rogan Experience, all the acrimony sowed by social media and todays journalism landscape tends to melt away. Adversaries become friends, differences are diminished in relation to similarities, and sometimes, alliances are even formed. That is what commonly happens on Joe Rogans podcast, and that is what the mainstream who relies on polarization is most afraid of.

The greatest sin of todays media alignment is how it has turned us all against each other for the betterment of bottom lines and business models, and a side effect is the impinging on the ability of music to bring us all together through the principals Jordan Peterson so brilliantly and eloquently expressed on Joe Rogans podcast. As soon as music becomes the wedge between our similarities as opposed to the bridge between our differences, we will lose something way deeper than the ability to enjoy music together in a shared experience.

When you go to Roberts Western World in Nashville, you see all kinds of people: genuine redneck honky-tonkers, throwback country & Western hipsters, and tourists from who knows where and all walks of life, and theyre all there enjoying the gift of music together.

Something tells me is that if you put Joe Rogan, Neil Young, and Jordan Peterson all together, standing in front of the Roberts Western World stage, enjoying a Recession Special of a fried bologna sandwich, a Moon Pie, and a PBR, watching some of the greatest talent in the entire world like Brennen Leigh or Sarah Gayle Meech, the brotherhood of man would prevail. Maybe thats fantasy. But if a rendition of Ghost Riders in the Sky can bring Jordan Peterson to tears, perhaps just about anything is possible through music.

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Canadian author and former professor Jordan Peterson criticized Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's response to the massive trucker protest in Ottawa, calling on Canadian conservatives to "seize the day" and reattain the county's charter rights.

"I've been watching what's happening in Canada ... trying to think it through," Peterson said in a video post to Instagram on Tuesday.

Peterson directly addressed conservative politicians Premier of Saskatchewan Scott Moe, Premier of Alberta Jason Kenney, Premier of Ontario Doug Ford, and opposition leader Erin O'Toole, asking them, "What in the world are you waiting for?"

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"It's your moment. You've got a huge number of Canadians occupying Ottawa, expressing their dismay with the suspension of our charter rights in the face of this so-called emergency," Peterson said. "Our prime minister has literally abandoned the city run away, as far as I can tell citing security concerns because I think he believes his own propaganda about the nature of the people who are sitting in Ottawa and then lying about it, justifying it as a consequence of being exposed to COVID despite the fact he is double vaccinated and tested negative."

"You're not going to get a better opportunity. This is your moment, conservatives in Canada," he continued.

Peterson pressed the politicians to use the popular demonstration as an opportunity to push for harsh COVID-19 restrictions to end.

"We could have our country back," Peterson said. "Reassure Canadians. Remove these mandates."

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Thousands of Canadian truckers formed a convoy and drove into Ottawa, where they now occupy the city's downtown area in protest of vaccine mandates impacting the industry. Trudeau has attempted to brush off the demonstration as a "fringe minority," but videos of the massive crowd filling the city streets show a different story.

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All eyes were on Brian Dilworth going into the late signing period. He was the only recruit left on the board who was expected to sign.

Shortly after 7 a.m. eastern Dilworth sent his letter of intent into the University of Kansas.

Oh, it's great, Dilworth said. Everybody's into it. The fans and the community of the Jayhawks are real welcoming. I had a lot of people follow me on Twitter, giving me applause for becoming a Jayhawk and just wishing me the best. I'm proud of it. And the coaches seem just as happy as I am. So, I'm happy to be a Jayhawk.

It has been a long road for Dilworth to get to signing day. The cornerback from Florida picked up early offers from Auburn, Cincinnati, Penn State, Kentucky, Miami (FL), Arkansas and several other schools.

He gave a verbal commitment to Auburn but ended backing off that pledge. He went through his senior season uncommitted. When Jordan Peterson was hired as the cornerbacks coach at Kansas, he started to recruit Dilworth.

After a month of phone calls with Peterson he took an official visit to Lawrence. On Sunday when his visit ended, he gave the coaches his commitment.

It's a big relief, Dilworth said. Because I know I have somewhere I love to go, and I have a home after high school with some coaches behind me and parents and everybody else with the Jayhawk community. I'm really relieved that I have a great school to go to, great coaches to coach me and everything else.

As a junior Dilworth was a first team selection by the Miami Herald. He played football, basketball, and volleyball at Chaminade Madonna High.

After he visited Kansas, head coach Lance Leipold and Jordan Peterson visited Hollywood to see Dilworth and his family.

After I came back from Kansas, Coach Leipold and Coach Peterson came down to come talk to me about all the papers and signing day things and like that, he said. They just welcomed me home to becoming a Jayhawk and just tying it up before I actually signed.

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. but Brian Flores suing the NFL is kind of a big deal.

And perhaps the least explosive allegation in the lawsuit was the stuff about Flores' interview with the Broncos, in which he alleges that John Elway showed up an hour late, looked like an unmade bed, and basically acting like he had no interest in being there.

I say "least explosive," not because that experience was any day in the park for Flores. Job interviews, by their very nature suck as it is, even in the best of circumstances. But we've all been through the process. We've all sat across from some manager with a thousand other thing on their plate and they make it abundantly clear that if you weren't there, forcing them to try and look into your soul to see if you could be trusted to grill their burgers or sell their products or write their humor blogs, they'd be dealing with more immediate issues. Or sitting quietly in their office with the door shut dreaming of retirement.

On the other hand, we've all shown up to some work-related thing not at our best. Doing the Walk of Shame into the building, looking like the drink in last night's glass. Mailing it the fuck in because nothing could be more important at that moment than a little coffee and quiet contemplation until it's time to go home.

But it's important to Elway that we all know that was NOT the deal in the situation.

Source - Elway said the Broncos strongly considered, Flores [and met with him] at a Providence, R.I., hotel.

While I was not planning to respond publicly to the false and defamatory claims by Brian Flores, I could not be silent any longer with my character, integrity and professionalism being attacked.

I took Coach Flores very seriously as a candidate for our head coaching position in 2019 and enjoyed our 3 1/2-hour interview with him. Along with the rest of our group, I was prepared, ready and fully engaged during the entire interview as Brian shared his experience and vision for our team.

Its unfortunate and shocking to learn for the first time this week that Brian felt differently about our interview with him.

For Brian to make an assumption about my appearance and state of mind early that morning was subjective, hurtful and just plain wrong. If I appeared disheveled, as he claimed, it was because we had flown in during the middle of the night and were going on a few hours of sleep to meet the only window provided to us.

So we've got here is your classic he said/he said thing. An Eye of the Beholder scenario. Where one man's "Hard Working, Dedicated Professional Operating Without Sleep" is another man's "Probably Had Dinner on Federal Hill Then Hit the Foxy Lady Because He Stinks of Booze, Cheap Perfume and Hopelessness." Nobody knows except the people who were in that room.

And I have to assume this is going to be a huge issue in the suit should it ever go to trial. Flores isn't just suing because he says Elway was unkempt and uninterested in talking to him. For 3 1/2 hours. He's trying to demonstrate a pattern of behavior from all the teams he's talked to over the years, and claiming it applies to the entire NFL, solely because of his race. If it turns out Elway's version of events is the truth, and these Broncos execs rearranged their lives and had a restless night just to chat with him for 3+ hours like it was Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson, that is not going to help Flores prove a pervasive attitude and a pattern of behavior. So this is going to be very interesting if we ever get to hear more.

For the rest of you, let this be a lesson to you. Whether you're the interviewee or the interviewer, always show up looking your best, projecting an air of competence, and above all, demonstrating professionalism.

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Childhood & Early Life

He was born on June 12, 1962 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to Walter Peterson and Beverley as the eldest of three children and was raised in Fairview, Alberta. His father was a schoolteacher and his mother a librarian at the Fairview campus of Grande Prairie Regional College.

The librarian of his school Sandy Notley (mother of Canadian politician and Alberta New Democratic Party leader Rachel Notley, the 17th and present Premier of Alberta) introduced Peterson to literary works of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Aldous Huxley, Ayn Rand and George Orwell.

In 1979 he graduated from Fairview High School and started attending Grande Prairie Regional College to study English literature and political science. All through his teens Peterson worked for the New Democratic Party (NDP) but later got disenchanted and quit the party at age 18.

He left Grande Prairie Regional College in-between and took transfer to the University of Alberta, from where he obtained his B.A. in Political science in 1982. He then visited Europe and became interested in psychological origins of the Cold War, especially on European totalitarianism of the 20th century.

The ability and scope of mankind for doing evil and destruction gradually started bothering him leading him to go through works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Friedrich Nietzsche and Carl Jung. He went back to the University of Alberta and studied psychology eventually earning a B.A. degree on the subject in 1984.

He relocated to Montreal in 1985 and furthered his studies at the McGill University from where he obtained Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 1991 under supervision of Robert O. Pihl. His thesis was titled Potential psychological markers for the predisposition to alcoholism. Thereafter he worked with Pihl and Maurice Dongier till June 1993 as a post-doctoral researcher at McGill's Douglas Hospital.

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Career

He conducted research as also taught in the psychology department at the Harvard University in the capacity of an assistant and an associate professor from July 1993 till June 1998. He examined aggression spurted from substance abuse and overlooked several unconventional thesis proposals. There he received nomination for the Levenson Teaching Prize in 1998.

He went back to Canada in July 1998 where he started working as a full professor at the University of Toronto, a post he holds till present.

The fields of his study and research includes creativity, political, religious, ideological, industrial and organizational, social, clinical, neuro, abnormal, and personality psychology and psychopharmacology. Over the years he wrote and co-wrote over hundred academic papers.

In 1999 he came up with a book titled Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief published by Routledge. He penned down the book in an attempt to "explain the meaning of history". The book where he briefly reflected on his childhood and upbringing in a Christian family took him more than 13 years to complete.

In Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief Peterson elucidates an extensive theory on the way meanings and beliefs are constructed by people and on how they make narratives applying concepts from different fields like psychology , religion, mythology, philosophy and literature that are in conformity with the modern scientific understanding of the way the brain works.

The classroom lectures of Peterson on psychology and mythology based on his book Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief were made into a 13-part TV series that was aired on TVOntario in 2004. His other pursuits with the network includes appearing frequently as guest panellist and essayist on the popular current affairs program The Agenda starting from 2008 as also featuring on the series Big Ideas that showcases public intellectual culture.

He has also thrived in garnering decent recognition online. His YouTube channel JordanPetersonVideos that he created on March 29, 2013, and features his university and public lectures and interviews with people among other things have already amassed over 1 million subscribers and more than 52 million views. His clips YouTube channel for shorter videos Jordan B Peterson Clips that he created on June 14, 2017, has also accumulated over 66 K subscribers and more than 3.3 million views.

He along with his colleagues came up with two online assessment programs, Self Authoring Suite and UnderstandMyself, that aid one to analyse and understand his/her personality and better ones life.

Since September 2016, he posted a number of videos on his YouTube channel criticising political correctness and the Canadian government's Bill C-16. Such move of Peterson was censured by many including transgender activists, critics, faculty and labour unions leading to protests including some violent ones thereby creating controversy and attracting worldwide media attention. He also received two warning letters from academic administrators at the University of Toronto.

For the first time in his entire career, Peterson was refused a grant from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in April 2017, which he considers retribution against his statement on Bill C-16.

He began his own podcast The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast in December 2016 and started a series of live theatre lectures The psychological significance of the Biblical stories in May 2017. He has also featured in several online shows and podcasts like The Rubin Report, Waking Up and The Joe Rogan Experience.

He has more than two decades of experience in clinical practice attending 20 people weekly. However he resolved to keep such endeavour on hold in 2017 so as to give more time to new projects.

He came up with his second book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos published by Penguin Random House in January 2018. This self-help book penned down in a more accessible style than his first book encompasses abstract ethical principles on life.

Peterson went on a world tour to promote 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos and also had an interview with Cathy Newman on Channel 4 News as part of it. The interview went viral on YouTube garnering him considerable attention with over 9 million views. The book became best-seller topping bestselling lists in the US, Canada and the UK including emerging as #1 best-seller book on Amazon in Canada and the US.

Personal Life

In 1989 he tied knot with Tammy Roberts with whom he has two children, a daughter and a son. In August 2017, he became a grandfather.

A philosophical pragmatist, Peterson elucidates himself as a classic British liberal politically. He called himself a Christian in a 2017 interview but did not identify himself as one in 2018. Responding to his belief on God, he mentioned I think the proper response to that is No, but I'm afraid He might exist".

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