Great post. I watched that entire interview with Jordan Peterson. She wasn't even listening to what he had to say. The entire time she's just trying to snare him in one of her traps and paint him as a sexist. He probably anticipated it and navigates through her web very elegantly.
That mentality is exactly what drove me away from the left and towards the center. A lot of character assassination rather than discussion of facts.
It's because she'd gone down a path that would have taken so much to reverse it can seem easier to keep going where the more she gets a sense she'd gone wrong the more she needed to flinch away so as to avoid it looking at it too closely. If she'd focused on it too long it would be much harder to close her eyes and pretend she didn't see it.
But then if you keep lying to yourself like that you go further into insanity which is what you saw here., where she ends up saying the sort of things you might say in the moment and either realise you didn't mean it or immediately realise how stupid and unreasonable what you said was. She almost had that moment with the gotcha, but she decided to keep going rather than take the reasonable step next step of self refection and realise she'd better start asking some actual questions and put aside some of the assumptions that betrayed her...
But apparently when the fool realises they're a fool it's very tempting try and get out of it by just increasing the foolishness until they've sufficiently convinced themselves again.
It pretty much didn't matter what he said at all she might as well almost have been reading off a script and talking to a strawman (har har see that's a joke)
thanks for the kind words @neuromancylife, and yeah, that's why he "steem"-rolls her as well as he does, cuz she's literally just mindlessly spewing out her own B.S. talking points without really having thought any of it through. of course, that's sadly a large part of the problem in the first place, that most people aren't willing to take the time to really "think things through"...
You're welcome. She probably didn't do much research into him either and underestimated him. She expected an average chump who would cave under pressure and lose his composure. Instead, he keeps his cool and she ends up looking foolish in front of the entire world. That video has been EVERYWHERE lately. Hopefully she learned a lesson in humility.
Very true, people really aren't willing to think things through. When someone has been looking at the world from a particular perspective for so long, they become attached to it and it encompasses their personality or ego. It's hard to look from someone's else's perspective because that may trigger you to change, and change can be scary. Cognitive dissonance is a very powerful force.
I hope that in the future we can steer conversations entirely away from politics outside of cryptocurrency. Left and Right wing. Too much of it is toxic and too many people are calling for the deaths of their political opponents.
Liked your words (quite descriptive ).
thank you!