I don't share this for the "LOLs", this being the now-deleted tweet of an unwell man.
I share this for the Great Big Cultural Sad of our discourse having been driven in recent years by people who never had the chops for anything more than "thought-leading" by playing into fear and hatred.
How do we come back from an era of "public intellectual" grifters? How do we recenter dialogue that encourages better critical thinking, knowledge exchange, and democratic practices?
And can we do it online?
@MLClark
@daniel
@thedisasterautist
a diagnosis of Jordan Peterson's decent into madness.
Jung says that rejecting the images of the collective unconscious spells a retreat into rationalism.
but,
identifying with them can cause mental illness, suggesting that this is what happened to Nietzsche. ego inflation.
delving into the depths of religious symbolism as JP was doing triggered an experience of the numinous, which JP then identified with.
what one thinks is ipso facto true then?‼️