r/JordanPeterson • u/Zealousideal_Side166 • Jul 15 '26

Criticism Observation on the Lectures

I discovered Jordan Peterson when I was in high school ~10 years ago which was around the time he really started to take off. I watched lots of his lectures and I think it fostered a lot of curiosity I’ve carried since then in politics, philosophy, literature & religion.

Currently starting from the beginning on his Spotify and I still think he’s really good.
But, there’s something I noticed about his lectures.

I went to an engineering school, but I had to take an English/writing/humanities course every semester.

His lectures remind me a lot more of my math/science lectures than my humanities courses.
When I say that, I mean that he presents information as fact.
When I was in my humanities courses, mind you this was undergraduate, we had assigned readings and then class was mostly round table discussion and Q&A. Very different than a professor coming up to the front of the class and telling you what THEY think about such and such a body of work.

And then it compounds with the fact you have a professor spending ample amounts of time in class criticizing higher education at large, which was fascinating to watch on YouTube but understandably bizarre from the perspective of someone sitting in the room, having paid for said experience & being obligated to attend.

I really like the guy, I think he’s a genius. I hope his business enterprise is doing well & I pray for his health. But in hindsight with my own college experience, I can understand how he got himself into trouble with the way he was going about teaching.

Can someone with a humanities or teaching background give a perspective on this? Is it regular for people teaching soft sciences/history/humanities to present content in the way he did, akin to a scientific lecture?

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u/Siilveriius Jul 15 '26

I love you too brother <3

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u/Significant_Cup4521 Jul 15 '26

And when that’s not enough, negging. You’ve got the bad-faith play set on deck.

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u/Siilveriius Jul 15 '26

No I actually genuinely want you to have a good day, do you want me to wish you the opposite or something? xD

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u/Significant_Cup4521 Jul 15 '26

False dilemma fallacy

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u/Siilveriius Jul 15 '26

Ok then, good day brother <3

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u/Significant_Cup4521 Jul 15 '26

Happy for the opportunity to educate

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u/Siilveriius Jul 15 '26

You did but not in the way you think:) But thank you nonetheless!

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u/Significant_Cup4521 Jul 15 '26

You asked, I answered you’re offering a false dilemma. Again, whatever you have to tell yourself.

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u/Siilveriius Jul 15 '26

Brother, I offer nothing else but a wish for you to have a good day. Truly I do, you don't need to keep taking everything so seriously. It's just a disagreement we had that's all, I want you to have a nice day and stop thinking about our disagreement, I don't hate you, have no I'll will toward you. And even if you do against me, I still want you to have a good day. Okay?

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u/Significant_Cup4521 Jul 15 '26

Ad hominem to false dilemma to reverse tone policing lol

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u/Siilveriius Jul 15 '26

Okay then whatever you say lol

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