I largely worry about the lack of education that leads to people finding him persuasive. At least, that seems like a slightly simpler issue to resolve.
But you can certainly prevent emotional needs (and probably more relevant: pathological anxieties) that are born from misunderstandings of reality, which are quite common among Peterson’s audience.
Maybe, but the way I see it, deprogramming from a toxic culture is attacking the problem at the source to prevent more symptoms from occurring.
I do see other issues here, so education isn’t my only concern. However there is a lot of evidence that education based in critical thinking makes individuals more resilient to cult-style tactics and rhetoric. eta: Cultists’ emotions are often weaponized for the organization’s benefit so this does directly address the emotional needs issue imo.
There are also systemic issues at play here, and many of those affect a much wider cross-section of the general population so they should be more easily addressed. And yet this population loves its identity politics while loathing inter-sectionality, meaning they are the very population standing in tribalist opposition to what their class allies are fighting for. This is another sign that education failed, and that better critical thinking would be an effective counter to influence by JBP and the rest of the IDW, as well as the right-wing hegemony that they support.
Educated can mean many things, so that’s definitely true. It’s critical thinking skills that are being failed. As I mentioned in another coment, I’m pretty sure the research indicates lower completed education and other proxies are strongly related to low resistance to… this bullshit.
I largely worry about the lack of education that leads to people finding him persuasive. At least, that seems like a slightly simpler issue to resolve.
You can’t solve emotional needs with logic
But you can certainly prevent emotional needs (and probably more relevant: pathological anxieties) that are born from misunderstandings of reality, which are quite common among Peterson’s audience.
You’re trying to tackle the problem at the problem rather than prevent it all together. Peterson is a symptom not the real issue
Maybe, but the way I see it, deprogramming from a toxic culture is attacking the problem at the source to prevent more symptoms from occurring.
I do see other issues here, so education isn’t my only concern. However there is a lot of evidence that education based in critical thinking makes individuals more resilient to cult-style tactics and rhetoric. eta: Cultists’ emotions are often weaponized for the organization’s benefit so this does directly address the emotional needs issue imo.
There are also systemic issues at play here, and many of those affect a much wider cross-section of the general population so they should be more easily addressed. And yet this population loves its identity politics while loathing inter-sectionality, meaning they are the very population standing in tribalist opposition to what their class allies are fighting for. This is another sign that education failed, and that better critical thinking would be an effective counter to influence by JBP and the rest of the IDW, as well as the right-wing hegemony that they support.
Do you? Because educated people still fall for this bullshit.
Educated can mean many things, so that’s definitely true. It’s critical thinking skills that are being failed. As I mentioned in another coment, I’m pretty sure the research indicates lower completed education and other proxies are strongly related to low resistance to… this bullshit.