THE LOBSTER KING: A GUIDE TO JORDAN PETERSON
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TWITTER: [https://twitter.com/5isyphus55]
SOURCES
Much of the philosophy section relied on a primary reading of Jordan Peterson’s “12 Rules For Life”
Journal of Jungian Studies article
[https://brill.com/view/journals/ijjs/12/2/article-p129_1.xml?rskey=t520Um&result=1](https://brill.com/view/journals/ijjs/12/2/article-p129_1.xml?rskey=t520Um&result=1)
Peterson and the Lobster
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/06/04/jordan-peterson-needs-to-reconsider-the-lobster/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/06/04/jordan-peterson-needs-to-reconsider-the-lobster/)
Peterson’s definition of postmodernism in relation to marxism
[https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/philosophy/postmodernism-definition-and-critique-with-a-few-comments-on-its-relationship-with-marxism/](https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/philosophy/postmodernism-definition-and-critique-with-a-few-comments-on-its-relationship-with-marxism/)
[https://notesonliberty.com/2018/05/27/jordan-petersons-ignorance-of-postmodern-philosophy/](https://notesonliberty.com/2018/05/27/jordan-petersons-ignorance-of-postmodern-philosophy/)
Bill C-16
[https://torontosun.com/2016/10/19/u-of-t-tells-outspoken-prof-to-stop-making-public-statements](https://torontosun.com/2016/10/19/u-of-t-tells-outspoken-prof-to-stop-making-public-statements)
[https://torontoist.com/2016/12/are-jordan-petersons-claims-about-bill-c-16-correct/](https://torontoist.com/2016/12/are-jordan-petersons-claims-about-bill-c-16-correct/)
[http://sds.utoronto.ca/blog/bill-c-16-no-its-not-about-criminalizing-pronoun-misuse/](http://sds.utoronto.ca/blog/bill-c-16-no-its-not-about-criminalizing-pronoun-misuse/)
[https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/what-the-wilfried-laurier-professors-got-wrong-about-bill-c-16-and-gender-identity-discrimination](https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/what-the-wilfried-laurier-professors-got-wrong-about-bill-c-16-and-gender-identity-discrimination)
[https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/01/15/he-says-freedom-they-say-hate-the-pronoun-fight-is-back.html](https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2017/01/15/he-says-freedom-they-say-hate-the-pronoun-fight-is-back.html)
Consequences of Peterson’s Interpretation of Bill C-16 on Transgender individuals
[https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/why-its-important-to-oppose-jordan-petersons-views-on-gender-pronouns](https://www.cbc.ca/cbcdocspov/features/why-its-important-to-oppose-jordan-petersons-views-on-gender-pronouns)
Ben Burgis/Matt McManus Article
[https://jacobinmag.com/2020/4/jordan-peterson-capitalism-postmodernism-ideology](https://jacobinmag.com/2020/4/jordan-peterson-capitalism-postmodernism-ideology)
Foucault Quote
“On the Genealogy of Ethics: An Overview of Work in Progress.” Afterword, in Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and Hermeneutics, 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (1983)
@Sisyphus55
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Wow I can’t believe how badly you misinterpreted him
@Wabbajagg
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
This video was mostly a fair assessment (The section about his political views is guaranteed to elicit controversy and I will therefore refrain from commenting about that).
Back in the day when this video came out, I initially dismissed it. Now in the aftermath of his Benzo trip with his more recent crazy developments unfolding, I am much more critical towards this controversial figure. While I credit him on pushing me towards a path of success, responsibility and much more meaning in life since ca. 2016, I acknowledge his recent downfall. I wish he would regain the wisdom and strength he used to have in his 2017 pre-fame lectures. That is all.
@Hasbro1107
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
I’ve only seen Peterson in memes and I only know that he is some kind of lobster who cleans his room and want to know the definition of things
@jonathonmillett126
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
He’s a shill who uses big words to make his basic ideas seem profound. I don’t believe he is exceptionally malicious, but I do believe he is apathetic to the damage he causes in his pursuit of money and power.
@aleenaabidrao9754
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
putting kermit and cookie monster when talking about zizek and JP is gold😭😂
@elizabethbrauer1118
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
JP has turned into nothing more than a cranky old man who dreams of the past. Wish he would stop crying on camera, too. It's getting old.
@Ravenblues
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Postmodernist anarchist PhD here, peterson has no idea what he's talking about.
@georgelewis3047
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
This was delivered from the standpoint of accepted positions in the academy, and in a somewhat patronizing manner. Not up to the usual standard I have come to accept from Sisyphus 55.
@HampsteadOwl
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
"If no one can really agree on what someone has said, have they really said anything at all?"
If that is the standard you want to apply then the conclusion must be that no philosopher in history from Plato onwards has ever really said anything at all.
@spmoran4703
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Can some one please tell me apart from Alpha Males and verry thin Stepford wives . What ither groups of people dose he not hate? He seems to have a big hate filled chip on his shoulder about every one else.
@pantherheartthedruid4134
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Your take on his advice to those struggling is weak and should be improved, if his advice brings a positive change by empowering individualism and improving people's lives should be encouraged regardless if the thoughts are originally his or someone else's because if his delivery has brought the change then it would be on the account of his understanding and simplifying them enough which in essence is the philosophy of teaching and in my opinion that does make an individual an intellectual
@MikeFuller-d4d
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
His mind! Psychology, Philosophy, Politics, and Theology. Phew!!
@JoeSchmoeBro
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Peterson is flawed as us all but im thankful for him
@Confuzledish
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
It's ironic that a man who studied Jung and criticizes ideology also ended up a victim to blindly following his own ideology of hatred and cult of personality.
@TheBengalDragon
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
In response to your last question. After having lived in America for over 10 years and in the UK for over five years and the rest of my existence in the Middle East, I came across several realizations. One of them is that the most misleading line that is drilled into everyone’s heads is that everyone is created equal.
I say that because the word equal is now taken out of contact and is replaced by equal outcome. This is why I like to use the more accurate word called equipotent. I believe that everyone is created equipotent. Which means from an internal factor standpoint, everyone starts at the same starting point. The thing you mentioned about inheritance and what not. These are external Factors, and there is no equality, even between two people in terms of external factors. One person‘s external factor will never be identical to another human beings, external factor.
@spmoran4703
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Petersen a recovering alcholic trying to cure other alchoholics the blind leading the blind .
@k.squared
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
This video aged terribly. We're talking about a person that calls polite request to conserve paper towels in a public bathroom "tyrrany" and can spend half an hour answering a yes/no question (and still not giving an answer). Today, his absurd rule "Tell the truth" (4:05) would probably be ridiculed by him into the ground, if it was proposed not by him, but by one of his opponents.
@marketads1
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
“Waaa-waaaa, I wanna be a philosopher too! Waaa-waaaa!” — Jordan B Peterson
@dayo_0X1
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Jordan Peterson is a businessman
@MrGadfly772
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
I never realized how autobiographical Peterson's idea are to himself. It sounds like he has taken his personal struggles and decided that it is so profound that it is a system of thought. I think he still has some work to do on his own self. He seems very egotistical, and his defense of meritocracy seems only to reinforce this. Clean your room, Jordan!
@carlkuss
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
This does not again to the later sad developments of his lining up with the rightwing juggernaut with clay feet.
@FlyLikeATachyon
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Dude basically red scared himself
@ant7723
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Lobster
@ant7723
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
So good
@jdorchen
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
In whatever way he began his career, Peterson has become an unhinged, attention-seeking ideologue. BTW, why did you kill off Chomsky? "None of them lived at a time when social media" etc. Dude's still breathing.
@LuckyPunck
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
My rooms messy time to clean it up ❤😂 literally and figuratively
@GarySBCA
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
“Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Power is often synonymous with money. Look at Elon Musk; as he’s become richer he’s gotten more erratic and less of a good person. Because of his outspokenness Peterson has attracted an adoring and cultish following. That’s power too but it’s also a tremendous pressure. Just like Musk he’s been changed by it. My takeaway is no one is either all good or all bad. Take what good you can and learn from them but don’t worship any guru to the exclusion of all else lest you be disappointed. In the end everyone is human with human failings.
@lukejones7164
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Pre-Agricultural societies were/are NOT egalitarian, matriarchal nor peaceful, there's zero scientific support for that. That's just the modern myth of the noble savage.
@One_Random_Subscriber
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Im an self aware narcissistic psychopath.
And in my opinion, Jordan Peterson is an unaware narcissist.
He is intellectual and well spoken, but engages in a lot of word-salads.
He conduct himself very well in the environments he controls, but poorly handles criticism.
Just to name a few 'buts'
@janvanruth3485
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
nearly 15 minutes of meaningless fashionable blabbering…
@RobertLesac
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
This video really needs an update. As it stands it's more a rehabilitation attempt than an honest guide.
@visicircle
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
You are a complete and utter sophist. How can you pretend to represent Peterson's theories without speaking to his biblical lecture series? The majority of his work on YouTube is a psychological interpretation of the Bible. But you gloss over that, and only focus on the political elements. No due diligence was exercised in the making of this video, and you clearly have an ideological axe to grind.
Unsubbed.
@MrJack8700
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
We really glossed over him saying he had an all beef diet???
@christophersnedeker
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
As a leftist who's into Peterson (his philosophy and psychology not his politics) thank you.
@ldrizzldogl
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
very insightful sub+1
@altFEL181
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Peterson is as much an ideologue as the ideologues he hates.
@HowardR999
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
If he wasn't full of anger SHOUTING his dogmatic opinions, sarcastic and jabbing his finger he'd be a better role model for lost young men.
@jessy1982
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
He's a Zionist though. So that overwhelms anything else
@BonaireFreediving
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Long live Prof. Jordan Peterson
@cbbcbb6803
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Who do the non-socialists like and dislike?
@poorpriest4549
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
Jordan Peterson is just very dogmatic person. This does not allow him to actually study on different theories, he literally goes on stage and shit on communism because "dictatorship of proletariat" is bad, and he does not understand that any modern communist thinks the same and theory evolved a lot since the begining of 20 century to the point where the main idea is to reduce proletariat to zero by automatisation of every labor that does not require creative thinking (which is happening right now, lol) and establishing society of scientists and specialists – technocracy. To put it bluntly. And it is a natural process actually, there were a lot of people in the field gathering crops – now it is just a few tractors. There were a lot of postmans – now we have email. But, he still have a few good thoughts. A few.
@jasonf4626
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
12 Rules of Life was a horrid read. Absolutely horribly written and full of conjecture.
@papapoot4999
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
last line could've hit harder if you spliced in the Cathy Newman interview after it
@qwertyqwertz2802
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 pm
I used to watch his lectures online when i was in college around 2015-2016. It was so crazy to see him go from those tiny numbers to this international phenomenon overnight. I really think he’s lost his marbles by now.
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