re: #56 freetoken

Is is just me, or is human society in a backwards spiral?

We enjoyed a long stretch where expertise was valued because it led to measurable technical and societal progress. Unfortunately the concomitant digital interconnectivity has led to a resurgence of populism where millions of fundamentally ignorant people have found and been reinforced by each other. They have collectively decided that book learning is an effete, elitist, corrupting process and that real knowledge is held in their gut feelings and atavistic reactions.

You can literally see this backwards mentality being articulated intellectually and given a pseudo scientific foundation by Jordan Peterson, who is convincing millions of angry men that inside of them is some mystical genetic reservoir of millions of years of accumulated ancestral experience and motherfucking lobster knowledge. Which is funny because he’s basically just repackaged Carl Jung & Joseph Campbell’s largely discredited archetypes theory, spiced it up with elements from Frank Herbert’s DUNE and sold it to MRA’s as a magical explanation for why men are inherently more orderly and superior to women.