Dr. James Lindsay

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 544. When the Right Goes Too Far | Dr. James Lindsay · 5 May 2025 podcast
Well, and the foundational principle there is sexual identity, right? Of course. This is a very strange thing about these fragmented identity claims is that they— Like, an identity should unite, and it should serve a psychological and a social purpose simultaneously. Sure. An identity that's predicated on hedonistic orientation isn't an identity at all.
Okay, so now we can link the transgression back to your original idea that... You have a hierarchy of social status, let's say, let's call it conservative. And so now the parasitic predators swarm in and they splinter it. They splinter with transgression. Sure. Right. So that's an important thing to note.
Yeah, right. All game rules are repressive.
In psychopathology, that's splitting, by the way. Sociologically, one of the things I've noticed about my home country, it's really stark in Canada. if conservatives protest, they're flattened. Left protest, there's no holds barred. No matter how pathological it becomes, the left-wing protesters are always the heroic victims. The trucker convoy was a great example of that, right?
Because, you know, it was a disruptive demonstration, although remarkably peaceful. And the legal repercussions are still unrolling. And I think maybe it's, tell me what you think about this, I think it's because it might be partly the spread of the ideas of Marcuse through the culture. Yeah, absolutely. But I also think that people are genuinely
There's something to genuinely fear when actual conservatives protest because they don't do it until they're pushed to the wall. There may be. There may be, but I think it's— Well, is it also an indication that something very fundamental has gone sideways? That's true. Because conservatives aren't the protesting type.
Well, those left-wing movements in the 60s all floated on a cloud of free love.
And the excuse was if you don't— Well, degenerate's the right word, too, I think, because I think one of the hallmarks— because if you were a relativist, you might say, well, who are you to place— modes of orienting yourself in the world in a hierarchy. Yeah, sure. Because you described some of them as degenerate.
The reason that they're degenerate is because when they're employed, they degenerate. Yeah, sure, of course. Right, so they're games that violate their own principles as they play themselves out.
Defined primarily by full sexual liberation.
Yeah, I've been thinking about it as the hijacking of belief, right? That's a nice phrase. It's a parasite. Yeah.
So do we, maybe we could lay out some of the behavioral markers so that, because we might as well make this concrete. I can tell you what I've observed about the behavior of psychopathic parasites online. Okay. Sure. Maybe if you have five of these, you're one of them. You know what I mean? So anyone alone isn't enough.
So in the comment sections, for example, anonymity is a marker. Mm-hmm. Use of a transgressive cover name, often satanic, often. So, you know, and it's tongue in cheek, but no, it's not. Derisive language, right? So that would be language indicative of contempt. Contempt's a really toxic emotion, contempt and disgust. Hitler used disgust language to characterize the Jews, not fear language.
And you destroy things you're disgusted by. That's right. You stay away from things you're afraid of.
Right, absolutely, absolutely. They use derisive language. and contemptuous, what do you call those? LOL is a good example.
Now, you know there's lulz culture online. Yes, of course. I do it for the lulz. That's a hallmark of sadism. Now, those people, people who do those things, so those are four or five things, anonymity, pathological, nom de plume, derisive language, and then the use of these contemptuous and cool acronyms. Belittling, they use the word dude. That's a real good marker. Yeah.
Or they'll use a derisive nickname to kind of equalize the playing field.
Yeah. Yeah, right. Diminutive.
Right, right, right.
Right. Yeah, yeah. So those are markers. What else have I seen? An insane rise in explicit anti-Semitism. And that's been going on for about five years.
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