Hello zero books readers in this video
We'll continue our discussion of the possibility of a debate between the Slovenian psychoanalyst and philosopher
slow voice Dziedzic and the psychologists and self-help YouTube star Jordan Peterson
Along the way. We'll consider a couple of excerpts from the zero books titles heavy radicals and
capitalist superheroes
In the last video on the subject explored why it was that Jew jack and Peterson are so often paired and what I'll call the
internet imaginary
In this video, I'll take a look at how the promise of a future debate between jiseok computer s'en really came to be
On February 13th 2018 the online British newspaper The Independent
ran a rather standard piece from Dziedzic entitled
Why do people find Jordan Peterson so convincing people familiar with his ex work?
recognized the essay as hijiki and boilerplate in
Fact when I read the essay I didn't bother to read the byline first and about halfway in I thought to myself
This person is stealing from Zizek
in any case I was very familiar with his theoretical point about pathological jealousy and
Pretty quickly realized that Zizek's target wasn't the once obscure and now wildly famous Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson
But the crumbling liberal consensus that operates under the cloak of what jiseok calls
political correctness
Peterson's fans on the all right and all light didn't read you Jack's essay the way I did
neither did Peterson in fact
It was the essay in the independent that inspired Peterson to tweet angrily at what turned out to be as reject quote BOTS
If you wish to debate the validity of my apparently scientific theories or any of my other claims
Then let me know and we'll arrange it
I'm giving you a choice
Either put on these glasses or start is not trash. I already am eating
From the trash can all the time after that hundreds of YouTube videos were produced pointing out that jiseok hadn't adequately refuted
Petersons various arguments of course jiseok hadn't intended to refute Petersons claims
Let alone discredit the various facts. He marshaled as evidence in support of those claims
instead
Zizek was making a point about how impoverished facts are on their own
And how even true facts can be used to justify a pathological or in layman's terms a crazy?
interpretation of the world
That said let's take a moment to look at one of the claims jiseok holds up as an example
Peterson apparently has said that the concept of white privilege is a Marxist lie
Trying to track that down what I found was a YouTube video under the title white privilege isn't real
In this video hope Eater soon refers to Peggy McIntosh's sa white privilege and male privilege
Of course McIntosh didn't coin the term and her essay is not the best place to turn for a rigorous explanation of the concept
Anyways, who cares about that? There's no such thing as methodology, anyways. That's all part of the oppressive white male European
Patriarchy you might be better off turning to w eb du bois
Du Bois was a 19th and 20th century sociologist from Harvard and a civil rights advocate
There are some subjects that cannot even be discussed
the essence of the democratic process is free discussion
there was a time when men were not allowed to talk about universal suffrage or the education of women or
freedom for Negro slaves
today communism is the dirty word and
Socialism is suspect
Dubois wrote a book called black reconstruction in America and in that book he discussed how what he described as a psychological wage whiteness?
Kept white and black working people from organizing in their own interest during the time of reconstruction Dubois felt that
racism against black people
Continued and that a sense of white privilege white labor is failure to integrate and fully develop working-class
participation in the project of what he called civilization
had led to world wars and
economic depression
w e-- b Dubois
Was indeed a well-read Marxist. He thought of privilege in terms of economic conditions first he also
According to brainy quote once wrote make yourself do unpleasant things
So as to gain the upper-hand of your soul
What I've recommended to people is
Clean up your room
Zizek of course knows very well that the basis for white privilege isn't merely social privilege, but real material wealth
He also knows that overcoming this privilege is difficult and necessary
But not sufficient if we're going to arrive in a world that lives up to the Enlightenment values that Peterson sometimes claims to champion
Zizek is also deeply skeptical of any politics built on white guilt or perpetual victimhood
[Douglas Lain's son is about to enter the frame]
[There he is.]
 
when attacked for his 1998 essay a leftist plea for Eurocentrism
Vivek responded by quoting the
pan-africanist Marxist humanist philosopher Frantz Fanon Fallon says I am a man and what I have to
Recapture is the whole path of the world I am NOT responsible only for the slave revolt in Santo Domingo
Every time a man has contributed to the victory of the dignity of the Spirit
Every time a man has said no to an attempt to subjugate his fellows
I have felt solidarity with respect in no way does my basic vocation has to be drawn from
the past of peoples of color in no way do I have to dedicate myself to
reviving some black civilization and drastically ignored
I will not make myself the man of any past my black skin is not a repository for specific values
haven't I got better things to do on this earth, then event the black of the 17th century I
As a man of color do not have the right to hope that in the white man. There will be a crystallization of guilt
towards the past of past of my race I as a man of color do not have the right to seek ways of
Stamping down the pride of my former master
I have neither the right nor the duty to demand reparations for my subjugated ancestors
There is no black mission. There is no white burden. I don't want to be victim of the roots of a black world
Am I going to ask this right man to answer for the slave traders of the 17th century?
Am I going to try by every means available?
To cause guilt to burden in their souls
I am NOT a slave to slavery that dehumanized my ancestors. It would be of enormous interest
to discover a black literature or attack
from the third century before Christ we would be overjoyed to learn of the existence of a
correspondence between some black philosopher and Plato
But we can absolutely
Not see how this fact would change the lives of eight years old kids
working in the cane fields of
Martinique or Guadeloupe I find myself in the world and I recognize that I have one right alone
Death of demanding human behavior from the other and so on and so on sorry, but that's my position
Music aims at a universal emancipation precisely because white privilege is a real material force in the world
Peterson on the other hand attacks those who would use bastardized versions of privilege theory as
backdoor apologia through the status quo even
as he himself
Takes the stage as the biggest apologist for the world as it is a lot of what?
Psychiatrists and psychologists do is maintain social order? I mean that was a big part of criticism about psychiatric
diagnosis in the 1960s
And you know the people in the the you know so radical left wingers of the 60s
Thought that it was appalling that psychiatrists were involved in maintenance of social order. I don't happen to think it's appalling
I think it's necessary
But I think people should be honest about what they're doing
Let's return briefly to the argument jiseok was making in his essay. They used Peterson as an example for the left to learn from
What did you Jake mean when he wrote that even if what a jealous husband claims about his wife?
That she sleeps around with other men is all true. His jealousy is still pathological
a real-world example of this can be found in the FBI's reaction to the threat of communism in the
1960s and
simultaneously the the Communist left's reaction to the real infiltration of their organizations by the FBI
reading heavy radicals by Aaron Leonard and Conor Gallagher one quickly discovers that the house of an American Activities Committee
Was absolutely right to fear communist infiltration into the civil rights and union movements in the United States
Maoists are doing their level best to infiltrate every point of protest and lead the working class to a violent confrontation with the US government
But what new acts paranoia misses is why these communists were so useful to their own project and conversely
when Aaron Leonard began the project of reexamining Maoist movements in the 60s
He found out that it was mostly the FBI's attempts to infiltrate and corrupt Maoist organizations
they gave his own project any life quote a
number of people questioned whether there was any value in giving attention to a u.s., Maoist organization whose best days were decades in the past
Well if it were just a matter of assessing Maoism in the United States and that period this would be a lesser book
Relevant with its own specific lessons, but still a much drier story
However, it was the interaction of the group with the secret police of the United States
Which itself was highly political?
That ultimately animated this undertaking
To get an even clearer understanding of how the jealous husband pathology works we might consider the police expulsion of Occupy Wall Street
in 2011
Imagine if the police hadn't interfered
Wouldn't the outcome of Occupy have been even worse
That is without the excuse of police oppression
How it occupy organizers have justified their own lack of direction?
How would they have dealt with party-like atmosphere the lawlessness even the sexual assaults that occurred in Zuccotti Park
Girls there was a guy that got raped to here the I deaf deaf younger man
And if since the police suppression was a blessing because it filled in the gaps and failures and the left's all movement
Surely the same is true for Maoist organizations in the 60s and 70s
Jiseok's main complaint against petersen is that he invents the figure of the neo-marxist as a way to justify the failures and gaps in
the very civilization that Peterson wants to protect
He does this and precisely the same way that the Maoist turned to the figure of the g-man
To explain away his own failure
It's significant the Petersons is a union of his main way to understand reality is through myths
Because myths even when they are partially true the way we paper over real contradictions and gaps in our social life
In his book capitalists superheroes Dan Hassler Forrest grote that
The difficulty under capitalism is to find a stable mythology
Expressive of its inherent values and meaning he went on to argue that the superhero figure in Hollywood movies is one of the many
stable mythologies
that we hope can express fundamental beliefs about capitalism while temporarily overcoming the anxieties and
problems the capitalism produces
Attacking or celebrating Jordan Peterson his maps of meaning. This is partial truths and historical miss readings
Is another way we might all gloss over try to fill in the gap. It's another stable mythology
faster than a speeding bullet more
powerful than a locomotive able
To leap tall buildings at a single bound
The infant of Krypton is now the Man of Steel Superman
Who best be in a position to use his amazing powers in a never-ending battle for truth justice?
Superman has assumed the skies of Clark Kent mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper
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