Jordan B Peterson

Dr. Jordan Bernt Peterson (born ) is a Canadian clinical psychologist, author, University professor and YouTuber who is best known for writing the book "12 Rules of Life" and his college speeches. He is considered to be part of the Intellectual Dark Web. 
==Content==
His first videos were about what mattershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5216ZJVbVs, and tragedy versus evilhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLp7vWB0TeY. He would also upload videos of his lectures at Harvard universityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Bu7oCB8_k, and a year later, he started to upload his personality lectureshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owgc63KhcL8. His Harvard lectures were about his first book he write in 1999, titled Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, which combined information from psychology, mythology, religion, literature, philosophy, and neuroscience to analyze systems of belief and meaning. Maps became the basis for many of his future lectureshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlGqUfIgJfchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zji6xMkOgo. He would also talk about philosophical topics such as existentialismhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZnqLvLbLV0, culturehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj6HgQBNiZE, creativityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6rm0LrO9vU and violencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIDqaCjpjD8.
Around the 2016 US election he became notorious after he released a series of YouTube videos criticizing the Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (Bill C-16), critiquing it for being overly politically correct. He also became known for debating people such as Sam Harrishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31Ud7-EkZEI and Slavoj Zizek about hot topics such as faith and happiness under capitalism. He is affiliated with several conservatives such as Ben Shapirohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kteHW6t4G0g and Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqU7D_ONJQs.
After he launched his Patreon, his channel's content multiplied, as Patreon funded his projects such as his lectures on the Bible, Q&As, interviews and conversing with Muslims in Canada. He deleted his Patreon in 2019, after Milo Yiannopoulos was banned after a day on the website. 
==Controversy==
===Deadnaming ===
On July 1, 2022, he was suspended from Twitter due to deadnaming Elliot Page,https://www.newsweek.com/elliot-page-tweet-jordan-peterson-banned-twitter-pride-sin-1720899 and he initially refused to delete the tweet causing the issue. He expressed a strong reluctance to remove the tweet saying he would "rather die".https://www.newsweek.com/jordan-peterson-stay-off-twitter-rather-die-delete0elliot-page-tweet-1721474 Subsequently, he posted an emotionally charged and erratic video on his YouTube channel to address his suspension. However, this video was widely ridiculed, sparking the creation of the "Up yours, woke moralists!" internet meme.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYfKWQqvFac After some time, he decided to take down the tweet in order to have his suspension revoked, yet he later reposted it as a screenshot in a somewhat petty display of defiance.https://www.thepinknews.com/2022/08/27/jordan-peterson-elliot-page-twitter-deadnaming/ Approximately during this period, he began collaborating with The Daily Wire, an outlet led by Ben Shapiro.https://nypost.com/2022/06/30/daily-wire-signs-jordan-peterson-to-podcast-deal/ Notably, his Twitter suspension was short-lived, as in November 2022, following Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform, he and numerous other controversial figures were reinstated.https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/18/23466625/elon-musk-twitter-reinstatement-jordan-peterson-kathy-griffin-babylon-bee
==Personal Life==
He was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and is the oldest of three children. After graduating from Fairview High School in 1979, he studied political science and english literature at the Grande Prairie Regional College, in the hopes of becoming a corporate lawyer. He has cited Carl Jung, Friedrich Nietzsche, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and Fyodor Dostoevsky as influences.
In 1989, he married Tammy Peterson and the couple have a two children, Julian and Mikhaila Peterson. In August 2020, Mikhaila confirmed he had contracted Coronavirus during his stay in Serbia; he recovered.
He is of Norwegian descent, and his middle name, Bernt, is named after his grandfather.
==Podcast==
In 2021 he started a podcast where he would talk about miscellaneous subjects related to politics. Occasionally, he will review/critique bookshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_MXSE3wUT4
===Guest===
Matt Ridleyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjqEMqOyUr8, Douglas Murrayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_RrYz85E1A, Gregg Hurwitzhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw34J5mnkTs, Matthew Mccoughaneyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8wBjH8aXw4, Gad Saadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBcKlBaaoc, Ayaan Hirsi Alihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKhAh_qfO64, Johnathon Pageauhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rAqVmZwqZM, Abigail Shrierhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKQfATa-1I, Bret Weinsteinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O_gW4VWZ5c, Juliette Fograhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZz69eXG_Kk, Bjorn Lamborghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDNSnMTem98, Senator Mike Leehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Pl6DQ54X4, Jocko Willinkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA4Bkybx1ps, Paul Rossihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysQBegyQP8A, Roland Griffithshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGIP-3Q-p_s, Nicole Arbourhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGgEF-SlSEU, Stephen Fryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFFSKedy9f4, Iain Mcgilchristhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zld-MX11lA and Yeonmi Parkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yqa-SdJtT4. 
==Quotes==
*"You may say, 'Well, dragons don't exist'. It's, like, yes they do — the category predator and the category dragon are the same category. It absolutely exists. It's a superordinate category. It exists absolutely more than anything else. In fact, it really exists. What exists is not obvious. You say, 'Well, there's no such thing as witches.' Yeah, I know what you mean, but that isn't what you think when you go see a movie about them. You can't help but fall into these categories. There's no escape from them."https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/style/jordan-peterson-12-rules-for-life.html
*"A room full of books isn’t small"
*"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today"
==Books==
*Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (1999)
*12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (2018)
*Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life (2021)
==Trivia==
*He collects soviet era paintings.
*Despite being regarded for a conservative, he has stated that his political views are that of a "classical British liberal"
*He has become somewhat of a meme, like in JrEg's videos.
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