like i said, its not that long ago

and things can move quickly

and dont mistake it for the "middle" either

i wonder if obama will be known for overseeing the rise is rabid leftism

it got so fucking bad between 2009-2017

either side of us is not "Fascism" and "Socialism", they're rival groups fighting for access to the same recruiting pool

eh yeah i suppose i kinda started to wake up to the bullshit around 2012

Obama was Bush 2.0 tbh

i was like 15 and i was already ready to fight the leftists

continued and expanded surveillance, continued and expanded the destabilization of the middle east, continued to dump money into social programs that didnt work and made the issues worse

and his supporters had excuses for why critics were doubleplus ungood

hehe

today my favorite commentator tho is peterson, i feel that he tackles the ideas at the very fundamental level, whereas most others tackle the surface level issues

Peterson is focused on personal growth as an outlet of wider social change

im so glad sargon showed me jordan peterson for the first time, it was magical

it was 2016 or something

I certainly gained stuff from peterson but most of what he talks about i already knew from the time i spent with a pscyhologist years before

contrary to what the media says

~~most people weren't psychologists at some point in their lives~~

what peterson talks about in terms of psychology is common practise.

>most of what he talks about i already knew
this, I just find him an excellent method of deployment

a lot of it is 101 stuff tbh, same with the Nietzsche and Jung stuff

it's just that he does a good job presenting it and tying it all together

im not a psychologist, i went to one years ago

i read crime and punishment and notes from the underground

I took maybe a year and a half of Psych in University

im doing econ/cs

and then fucked off to do IT/Networking instead

i did electrical engineering, you dont see much of that stuff there 😄

and it wasnt university either anyway

my best friend was doing EE, and then switched to computer engineering

he built a fucking cocktail machine from scratch

it was huge

yep you can make cool things

Thus Spoke Zarathustra is great, fwiw. It's also Peterson's philosophical backbone when it comes to his advice oriented stuff

he's even started directly quoting it

I made a bottling machine for my end project, massive wooden thing really cool

i tried reading the phenomenology of mind

i got through the introduction and decided it was enough

uhoh we got slavic infidel incoming

oh did you?