Nov 2, 2023
What Is Going On In This BIZARRE Jordan Peterson Music Video?!
Jordan Peterson gets super weird in his new music video 'The Postmodernist Drinking Song."
- 7 minutes
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[MUSIC]
[SOUND] For the love of God, man,
I wanna be a resentful taco delivery boy.
There's a real hell on earth.
>> If there's a hell on earth,
it probably looks like the set that
Jordan Peterson is on, as he wears
his taco Gulag shirt and uniform.
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He has a new insane and
horrible music video out.
Even more annoying than
the overall concept is the name
The Postmodernist Drinking Song.
Now, sadly, due to copyright issues with
Spotify, we cannot play the video for
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you, but I will attempt to recreate the
majesty that he whistled a little bit of.
Let's take a look as the mics stay open,
and I read.
Critical racists now annoy us,
they accuse and
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satirize, multiplying all around us,
Dave Rubin, as we cut them down to size.
We'll drink, and drink and
drink with to those who think can't think,
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ratfinks, saviors of the known universe,
for
they invented philosophical notions
deconstructive in every way.
And so, this is one of the most
amazing videos I've ever seen.
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It is esoteric references to
postmodern theoretic philosophers,
in ways that presume
that you just know who
these people are cuz you're
like a cool inside person.
Here's some of the visuals that you'll
see along the way in this video
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The Postmodernist Drinking Song.
I love most conducive to disgrace is
the lyric on the bottom of the screen
with Dave Rubin in it.
He literally puts lipstick
on a pig halfway through.
And then this really summarizes it,
where he's referencing Richard Rorty, who?
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I don't know who that is,
and I'm proud not to.
And just an example of the direct
references to the actual
philosophers in this.
Michel Foucault was a genuine pervert and
it made him awful sad.
He invented philosophical doctrines
designed to drive us all quite mad.
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Andrea Dworkin, once a hooker,
celebrated as a sage,
who proclaimed that sex was raping.
She's a model for our age so
we'll drink and drink and
drink to those who can't think,
can't think, ratfinks,
Saviors of the known universe,
and so on and so forth.
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Wozni, you read,
you seem like a guy who reads stuff.
>> Yeah, sure-
>> Woke bros, I'm so
intimidated by all
the philosophy you guys spout.
Check out Waz's podcast Woke Bros.
So, as a consumer of philosophy yourself,
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what are your thoughts on this
Postmodernist Drinking Song?
>> Speaker 2: I don't
know what's going on.
There's no way people still think Jordan
Peterson is, sick or on the cutting edge.
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I know his popularity probably peaked
in 2016-ish, or at least that was
around a time where people were blaming
people like him for Donald Trump.
But there's no way people watch this and
listen to his, and think,
yo, this guy's legit.
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This is great.
It is no way people read his theories and
think, this is coherent and makes sense.
Back when he was just like,
yo, clean your room.
Work out, don't be fat.
Like, all right, okay,
we could kind of understand it.
There's no way anybody thinks this is it,
though, right?
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So the arc,
have you ever read a self-help book?
I've done that, I mean, I have read-
>> I've never read a self help-book.
>> Speaker 1: All right, here is how
self-help books work, and it also applies
to the book of Scientology, which I also
read, not dianetics, but Scientology.
Which is essentially a giant self-help
book, not unlike the Bible, but
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catchier wording and more science fiction.
So in those books, they just start
off by telling you, look around you.
Isn't the grass green?
And you're, yes, the grass is green,
and the sky's blue, yes.
And the sun rises every day, doesn't it?
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Wow, this guy's really
saying some truths here.
The wind blows sometimes but
sometimes it doesn't.
And that's the first turn
toward philosophy, but
they do basic things that reel
you in that are very accessible.
And that's what Jordan Peterson did
in the early days of his popularity,
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as he just kind of reached out to people,
wouldn't you rather be happy?
Wouldn't you like to do that?
You clean your room.
But over time,
you have to keep people around.
And over time,
people get deeper and deeper into
your kind of cult of personality.
And you need to now have ways
to signal to those folks who is
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more advanced in that system,
and who is more on the outside.
And now there are people who've been
inside the foolish philosopher,
the sophomoric.
To be a Jordan Peterson sophomore actually
means wise fool philosophy of the fools.
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And you think that you're signaling,
that you're smarter than other people by
directly referencing, without explaining,
the full philosophies of these esoteric,
lesser known philosophers.
As a way to signal status within
the framework of the cult that you don't
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even realize you're in anymore,
until you're the only person laughing and
pumping his fist at the world's
dumbest music video.
Period.
That's what I see in this, it's amazing.
Let's jump to the final video
that we have just to show people
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the fun that folks have
been having with this.
We can play the music on this
because it is public domain.
Originally, it was you and me, baby,
Ain't Nothing but Mammals, but
imagine that's playing as you watch this.
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[MUSIC]
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Jordan Peterson,
the the wisest man of our time.
And he said of his own song, in the face
of Postmodernist intellectual stupidity,
the best thing we can do is laugh.
Hence The Postmodernist Drinking Song.
They are laughing, Jordan.
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They're just not laughing with you.
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