Jordan Peterson was once considered, particularly by conservatives, a respected clinical psychologist and author. An intelligent, courageous self-help guru. Peterson encouraged young men to read Kierkegaard, and helped countless young Neets turn their messy bedrooms clean. Then Peterson transformed; whether due to a well-documented health crisis, or due to his non-stop tweeting, he has, in recent years, unwittingly become a 21st-century village idiot.
In this past week alone, Peterson shared not one – but two – pieces of content that were so glaringly fake, even the most naive would hesitate to retweet them, let alone a doctor who was once described by Tyler Cowen as “the world’s most influential public intellectual”.
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