/lit/ - Literature

What parts of The Gulag Archipelago are bullshit?

I've been watching him for about two years now and just finished his biblical series. I realized that his entire work is ironically based off of core post modern foundations which is essentially infinite perceptions and Jordan certainly likes to make one standard line into a two hour lecture which is simply his personal projections onto the world. Truthfully anyone could do what Jordan does; just have a good imagination and deep state of creativity and you make make up an entire dimension of information from a simple thing such as " The old man thought of his youth and dead family then took a shit and then killed himself " into a 400 page book about the importance of youth and the deadly realities of regret. When not projecting his feelings, Jordan has never had an original thought in his life, everything runs back to another man: Peterson is nothing but a critic, he has created nothing of value but basic ramblings of setting your life in order, he's essentially a motivational speaker who cites philosophers with original thought to make himself seem smart. Jordan is intelligent, but he's essentially a critic with a good imagination who makes a hack intellectual.

I read through about half of his book, and I watched about 8 hours of the lectures and I feel I can finally pronounce the following.

Peterson is 80% self-help and 20% philosopher and that there isn't a very large amount of connective tissue between his actual philosophical arguments and the self-help behaviors he recommends.

Fundamentally I think Peterson is arguing against an inaccurate caricature of "postmodernism" while in substance he is simply going over the greatest hits of 19th and 20th century philosophy adding very little of his own thought and then using these disparate ideas (which don't all go together as well as he thinks they do) to make a leap in logic that allows him to push his preferred value system.

I would really like to discuss this with actual Peterson adherents if possible as I am aware that I may have missed somewhere where he has more substantially expounded upon the basis for his value system.

fuck. this man is a living prophet. the greatest /lit/ figure of our time.