...as we were saying.

Who would have thought it.

I was talking about patriarchy during the last blog entry, and then THIS happened.

The interview above takes place during the same news slot that was featured on the previous blog entry, where Orbital had a feature entry, granted by the same Channel 4 news anchor, Cathy Newman, not six months ago.

...Well, has the more recent, above, Cathy Newman / Jordan Peterson interview become viral, and a worldwide item of ideological discussion, let me tell you.

Jordan Peterson is professor of clinical psychology at the university of Toronto, and he has recently become rather controversially famous, worldwide, due to his views and statements on feminism, gender roles, hierarchical structures within society, natural selection, happiness, and fulfillment.

Many of his phenomenally controversial -to say the least- theories stem from the observation of 'natural organisational patterns' within nature. 

...Such as lobster dynamics.


Yep, that's right.


He has picked lobsters, due to his evolutionary metadata appreciations, as the organism to observe when fighting human depression, due to investigations into serotonin modulation while researching depression.


Pattern recognition within nature is, rightfully, the latest scientific furore, as its acknowledgement and practical applications seem to possess endless practical uses within all sciences - funnily enough, in a fractal universe. 

However, pattern acquisition is not for the simple minded. Perhaps for this very reason, pattern acquisition is the measure used by occidental governments as an accurate estimation of intelligence, as of late.

However, Mr Peterson is seeing patterns where there aren't any, and is also recovering some old cyclical behaviours when it is convenient for his discourse.

Twenty days have gone by since such interview was held on Channel 4's news at 10 - which is perhaps one of the most, if not the most, objective news slot in the UK.
This interview / heated exchange has so far been viewed six and a half million times on YouTube, and counting.

Jordan Peterson has since disclosed on his personal podcast, and everywhere else he has been since, that he declared himself the 'winner' of the interview, where he was being challenged by Ms Newman regarding views he had expressed somewhere else, and which he was avoiding the mentioning of.
Cathy Newman stated, live, what she knew he had said somewhere else, and which he was pretending he hadn't.
The video above must be watched to fully understand this blog, and while it is true that Cathy Newman often interrupts Jordan Peterson during the interview, it is clear she is doing so because she understands who she is sitting opposite to.

Doubts? Watch the video below, as Jordan Peterson vents off at large on his actual views of the 21st century's workplace, gender roles, women, relationships, and everything we had come to know and love as 'civilization', or even 'evolution'. Not much, then.

There is, as of late, a tilting trend to ´grant´ the ´victory´ from the Channel 4 interview, to Jordan Peterson, based on the fact that a sector of the public perceived an outcome where he ´owned´ his host, Cathy Newman, during such interview. 

...Patriarchal thinking patterns, once again.

Nobody ´owns´ anybody else when a debate is being held, as it is the case here. Even more so when the interviewer is simply trying her best to elicit statements from her guest, and which such guest has made somewhere else, and which would shock most people who apparently give Mr Peterson an unconditional ´thumbs up´, simply because he speaks confidently... as only a professor of clinical psychology would know.

Jordan Peterson oozes superficial confidence, like a two-dimensional Don Draper from Mad Men, if this was ever within the confines of the possible.

Still, Mr Peterson once again vents off, on one of the currently most popular 'comedy' podcasts, with daily downloads of 120 million - the Joe Rogan Experience Podcast (of which I am a regular listener):

During the podcast interview above, Mr Peterson is humorous, cynical, highly hind-sighted, self-righteous, and all kinds of wrongs, when referring to his Channel 4 interview.


He appears, as per usual, articulate, calm, well structured in his thought process, and a long list of superficially healthy etceteras. 


Does this take away one iota from his radically shortsighted, predatory, unevolved, and unimaginative discourse? 

Not in my book.

Self-confidence does not equate righteousness. 
A mirage also appears real, until it is found that it isn't so.

...You be the judge.

Dr. Jordan Peterson is a professor at the University of Toronto, a clinical psychologist and the author of 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Jan 2018, Penguin Books). His now-classic book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, offers a revolutionary take on the psychology of religion, and the hundred or more scientific papers he published with his colleagues and students have substantively advanced the modern understanding of creativity and personality. As a Harvard professor, he was nominated for the prestigious Levinson Teaching Prize, and is regarded by his current University of Toronto students as one of three truly life-changing professors. His classroom lectures on mythology and psychology, based on Maps of Meaning, were turned into a popular 13-part TV series on TVO.

Cathy Newman was educated at Charterhouse, an independent school. Newman graduated with a first from Oxford University, where she read English at Lady Margaret Hall. After university, Newman briefly worked for Media Week and The Independent (as business correspondent) before joining the Financial Times at the age of 23. Her older colleague Alice Rawsthorn acted as a mentor at the FT, where Newman worked as a media and then (for three years) political correspondent. Newman entered a television career in 2000. She gained a Laurence Stern fellowship to work at The Washington Post for four months. During her period in the US, she followed the 2000 Presidential campaign of Green Party candidate Ralph Nader. She joined Channel 4 News as a political correspondent (and deputy to political editor Gary Gibbon) in January 2006. In this role she broke several stories, including claims the Treasury pushed through the nomination of then Chancellor Gordon Brown's close friend Ronald Cohen for the House of Lords, challenging Peter Mandelson at the Brighton Labour Party conference in 2009, over his claimed use of the C-word in a conversation with Rebekah Brooks, then Wade, the CEO of News International.

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Culture, Media & Sport.

The Joe Rogan Experience is a free audio and video talk podcast hosted by American comedian, actor, sports commentator, and television host Joe Rogan. It was launched on December 24, 2009 by Rogan and his friend, comedian Brian Redban, who also produced and co-hosted. It has grown to become one of the world’s most popular podcasts, spawning a community of listeners around the globe. On August 18, 2017, it reached its 1,000th episode.