/lit/ - Literature

>>17259624
I don't think Peterson needed to read Zizek's books, but its clear the man did no research whatsoever. He didn't even watch youtube videos. Peterson had a God complex walking into that debate, he thought he could pull the same old
>"Post modern neomarxists are bad, mmmkay?"
bullshit because he didn't realize Zizek's biggest fucking secret: he's actually a really sensible conservative thinker. Behind all his talk about shitting and "the Jew rabinovich," he really just wants a society with a more egalitarian value system. He wants there to be unspoken social rules like "sir" or "madam" being words that are taken seriously. He pays lip service to trannies because he knows he has to, but if you listen to what he actually says about transexuality he thinks its a pathological identity that has emerged from capitalism's destruction of values and religious identity. And he admits he isn't a Marxist really, but a Hegelian- i.e. that the world cyclically destroys and creates belief systems. Zizek is really just a eccentric guy who wants to figure out how to improve the world.

And then Peterson walks in like "I just skimmed the communist manifesto. Time to end this man's whole career." And then he speaks in circles spouting the same bullshit neo-lib talking points he uses on menopausal talk show hosts. That debate was a Greek play; Zizek's effortless btfo of Peterson was nemesis cutting down hubris. Peterson realized he was out of his depth during the debate that was quite literally the pinnacle of his career up to that point. Seriously I might watch that debate again just for the catharsis of it.

I feel bad for Peterson, desu. First sentence of >>17259660 sums it up.

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