By David Futrelle
Just a reminder that Jordan “Slappy” Peterson’s fanboys are totally not cult members in a cult or anything, why would you even think that?
Ok, ok, he doesn’t mean a LITERAL voice in his head telling him what to do and not to do., that would be weird, just that “‘the little voice’ telling [me] not to do stuff often takes on Peterson’s tone and speech pattern.” Which is TOTALLY NORMAL.
I mean, seriously, who doesn’t have some strange Canadian dude in their head — FIGURATIVELY — telling them what to do? In my case, it’s the late Doug Henning, the fuzzy-mustached magician dude who was born in Winnipeg.
In case you’d like to know what it would be like if Jordan B. Peterson were a voice in your head, this brief video should help.
The Muppets has gotten weird pic.twitter.com/fFLTQxD0ei
— Wild Geerters (@steinkobbe) March 30, 2018
Further down that thread…
Now it’s gone from scary to just sad and creepy.
Out of all the assholes you cover, it’s Peterson that fills me with the most revulsion given his relative influence and popularity.
*Shudders*
“Patriarchy is just, because lobsters.”
Never heard of him before! Will research! Whew but you educate me in frightening things!
I thought “Slappy” referred to the evil ventriloquist’s doll from Goosebumps.
From now on I’m only going to refer to Peterson as “Slappy”, thank you for that!
Anybody else watching “The Path”? The series about the Meyerists?
“We’re not a cult – we’re a movement!”
Anyone who has seen Pontypool might be concerned if their behavior is starting to be affected by the sounds of Canadian voices.
http://www.doyoulikemoviesaboutgladiators.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/pontypool.jpg
All alt-Right figures seem to go through three distinct phases:
Phase 1: “Who?”
Phase 2: “A true genius! Everybody should listen to him! Academia is wrong to reject him!”
Phase 3: “Nobody really ever believed in him. Stop trying to claim that he ever represented us.”
Even as Milo “No Blue Checkmark” Yiannopoulos slides even further into stage 3, and Paul Joseph Watson begins to join him there, Jordan “Slappy” Peterson appears to be in the middle of stage 2.
I’m taking bets on how long it takes him to enter stage 3. Six months? How long ya got?
Also, Slappy has agreed to do a live debate with Slavoj Žižek. It will be towards the end of this year, in New York.
I’m not bothered by who wins, I’m more fascinated by the thought that we might finally learn which of the two has the weirder mannerisms.
(Let’s hope that Slappy is still relevant by then.)
Am I the only one thinking of Slappy Squirrel right now?
“Ehhhh, enOUGH with the singin’ already!”
LOL, Adjunct! I was thinking Slappy Squirrel myself.
I mean, sometimes I feel like I’m carrying around characters in my head, from whatever story I recently consumed. I can pull up their voices and mannerisms in my head easily and sometimes (usually if I intensely binged on something), it will bleed out into my actual mannerisms. E.g.- using British slang despite not being British, or on one occasion, accidentally using the royal we after marathoning The Goblin Emperor.
I’ve never had anything like that happen with a real person, but sometimes it feels like the voice of my “conscience” is blended with whatever character I’m most focused on at the time. I don’t think that it’s necessarily the sign of a cult to assign your inner voice the mannerisms of another person. At least not if it’s only temporary.
Or maybe the way my brain works is surpassingly odd. That’s also a possibility.
At least it’s not Chad Kroeger.
I liked the part where Jordan had the gorilla walker fire its head lasers at Žižek, and it kicked up a lot of red dust and a cloud of smoke, and for a moment everyone in the theater thought Žižek had just been reduced to ludicrous gibs, since Rian Johnson had been subverting our expectations of what a political debate should be for so much of the movie, but then the smoke cleared away and Žižek flicked a speck of dust off his shoulder, apparently unharmed.
(And then, of course, it turned out Žižek had actually been mentally projecting from Ahch-To the whole time, but the effort finally tired him out and he teleported to a nudist colony…)
Quick poll blending this thread and the book read. When you read a book taking place in a country and/or region other than your own, do you say the dialogue in your head in your own accent or in the accent of the characters?
I read everything in my own accent unless the dialogue is spelled phonetically, then I say it in that accent.
If I know the accents – it’s in the local accents. If I don’t it’s usually BBC English because sci-fi sounds bloody odd in a Yorkshire accent. (Like philosophy from a Geordie.)
I’m going to sound stupid for asking this but
Who is this Slappy guy?
I keep envisioning certain animated squirrels, ventriloquist dummies and the foreign exchange student from Jimmy neutron with the slappy dance.
I’ll almost always read a character’s voice in my own accent unless I’ve heard that character speak in other media (movie or whatever), the accent is spelled out phonetically, or if the manner of speaking is strongly reminiscent of a certain accent. (I.e. Slang or phrases that are uncommon in my accent but that I’ve encountered in other accents.)
I wonder how much money I could make with “What Would Jordan Peterson Do” bracelets?
@Kupo: Buttermilk: It makes a body bitter.
Nobody wins, unless the debate hall is pulled into the screaming void, inwhich case the world wins.
Wow, now there’s somebody I haven’t thought about in a while.
I actually did see a televised version of The Magic Show, a stage production he was part of.
Unfortunately, unlike many other stage magicians who end up advocating for more skeptical and reality-based approaches because they know how easy it is to be fooled (Houdini and Randi being the big names for that, with Penn Jillette being an edge case), Doug Henning went all into Transcendental Meditation later in life and ran as a candidate for the Natural Law Party both in the UK and in Canada, on the platform that yogic flyers could improve the health of the country. Most of his magic techniques and equipment got sold to David Copperfield.