Jordan Peterson Climate Denial

By Leo Gura - August 7, 2024

JP is engaged in some heavy denial of climate change. He’s so convincing at it that when I listen to him enough in good faith, he almost has me convinced. It’s really quite something.

It is useful to study Jordan Peterson’s mind for examples of self-deception mechanisms. If you watch enough of his videos you can spot self-deception mechanism after self-deception mechanism being employed without his awareness of them.

What are some of those mechanisms?

• Projection
• Bias
• Lack of construct-awareness
• Survival
• Mental attachment
• Rationalization
• Demonization
• Denial
• Cherrypicking
• Whataboutism
• Misuse of skepticism
• Selective application of relativity and post-modernism
• Gross double-standards
• Dodging questions and key issues
• Strawmanning, misrepresenting alternative perspectives
• Moralistic crusading, moralistic self-righteousness
• Speaking on topics outside his area of expertise
• Obfuscation and conflation

Here’s some killer advice for you: look for highly intelligent speakers and minds (like Jordan Peterson) and study their talks for self-deception mechanisms, and then contemplate how you will avoid that yourself in your own exercise of rationality and sense-making.

There is nothing more dangerous than human reason.

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