Need a plate of generic, insipid platitudes with a giant helping of bad science and misogyny?

  • @MediumRareChicken@lemmy.ml
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    671 year ago

    I used to like him. I fell for the crap. To my 16 year old brain what he said made a lot of sense. He had a handful of good points, and it made me believe the rest of the shit he peddled.

    I see him now, I look back on how I hung onto his words like a lost lamb, and I can only facepalm.

    I realised that the only thing he is good at is marketing, not psychology…

        • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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          51 year ago

          As the maoral-less L. Ron Hubbard would say…
          “You don’t make money selling a book, if you want to be rich, start a religion”

          Peterson is just running a dumb cult of generic (kinda bad for most people) advice that hinges on the shared identity of sad lonely boys.

          Peter Pan in the books is sad as shit, advice to never grow up and never try to be better just makes people more lonely and miserable.

        • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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          21 year ago

          Meh, all of the good advice he gives you can get from some other internet guru that isn’t such a grifter.

          “clean your room” and “wash yourself” really aren’t that profound.

    • Queen HawlSera
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      191 year ago

      I’m still pissed that because he badly quotes and misinterprets Jung all the time, people assume Jung is bullshit by association.

    • @Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      I didn’t believe him, I believed the positive messages he send and implanted. I don’t care about him nowadays, but I also don’t regret internalizing certain stuff he preached. It wasn’t totally bullshit of what he said, until a point where he completely drifted off.

      Thankfully I stopped watching any of his stuff quite a while before that happened, so I dodged this whole mess and only saw the burning ship wrack from the distance. I understand the hard feelings of others who are more involved in this topic though.

      To agree, that something someone said, was correct, isn’t a bad thing. Even if the stuff that follows is off the mark.

      To regret that, would also mean regretting failure, but without failure there’s no progress.

    • @Acters@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      I did what I did for everything, and I took it with a grain of salt. This had the unfortunate side effect of just not following others and keeping up with the latest trends. Oh well, I feel happier than ever before