Jordan Peterson

This article is about GritCult's view of Jordan Peterson. For a general overview, see Jordan Peterson on Wikipedia.

Jordan Peterson
“why do people mock others on here so often ? why do people attack others here so much ? why so much…” (25 June 2018)
In the archive
Portal	The Doctrine
Posts	59
Retweets	57
Likes	1,039
First post	17 January 2018
Latest post	10 May 2026
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Jordan Peterson appears in 59 posts, 29 of them in 2018. GritCult's relationship with him runs from engaged student to sharp critic: he borrowed Peterson's ideas freely at first, then recast him as a priest afraid of chaos and a midwit public intellectual whose moment had passed.

Views

The early posts are those of a committed but wary follower. In February 2018 he described himself as "a buyer of his books, attender of his lectures, and participant of his online program" ^[1], and that spring he summed up his position: he agreed with Peterson on self-help and truth but not on "his religious "explanations" & cult following" ^[2]. He used Peterson's ideas as ready reference points, explaining Twitter trolling as the status games "peterson talks about when he talks about lobsters" ^[3], and citing his use of Jungian myth to guide young men from childhood into adulthood.

By 2019 the tone had hardened. He attacked "false priests like peterson, who balk in fear at the notion of chaos" and want only order, insisting that "without movement, there is decay!" ^[4] The priest image stuck. He compared one of Peterson's talks to televangelism and described him as a man who wanted to help everyone and became a preacher. Even then he resisted simple dismissal, saying he still had the book and warning that judging a thinker by book sales was a mistake.

From 2021 the dismissal is open. "Imagine taking Peterson seriously in 2021", he wrote, adding that "Public intellectualism has decentralised." ^[5] In 2022 he said he would not recommend Peterson to anyone and offered a test: "would you trade lives with him? if no then not that deep" ^[6]. He has turned on the discipline as well, arguing that psychology has a reproducibility problem and that "peterson just regurgitated jung" ^[7]. By 2024 Peterson was on his list of "biggest midwit signal authors" alongside Sam Harris and Yuval Noah Harari, with the advice that readers would be better off not reading any of them ^[8].

Recurring themes

• from student to critic
• lobsters, status and the hero's journey
• chaos against order
• the public intellectual as priest
• psychology as unscientific
• the trade-lives test

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 8 retweets:

Selected posts

All 59 posts in the archive about Jordan Peterson, ranked by retweets. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
31 October 2023	8	81	disagree, psychology as a field cannot be considered a science as it has a huge systemic reproducibility problem. also peterson just regurgitated jung, who was just on cocaine talking about his dreams, again most of that, not a science world is worse due to "psychology"		View
18 December 2024	7	199	biggest midwit signal authors: bari weiss, sam harris, ben shapiro, yuval noah harari, jordan peterson, daniel kahneman, douglas murray you would be better off not reading anything of their work than to be contaminated by their mind viruses		View
1 February 2019	6	14	chaos like a fire, needs to be tended to, it needs kindling you have false priests like peterson, who balk in fear at the notion of chaos, they want to restrict movement, fluidity, they want order. they misunderstand, without movement, there is decay!		View
30 October 2022	5	187	i probably would not recommend jordan peterson to anyone he seems like he suffers from self inflicted putrefaction, and has a lot of issues he himself needs to get over and deal with. a heuristic: would you trade lives with him? if no then not that deep		View
15 August 2022	4	68	We all know the Reddit brained guy who wears a Rick n morty t shirt. Or the guy who keeps watching Jordan Peterson and prager University. I think everyone has done some of these. That’s not the point, the point is staying at the same level and not being able to detect bullshit		View
14 February 2018	4	7	when ppl do this/twerk, i am always reminded by baboons who also do the same social cues, which reminds me of a question i keep asking myself. how much of human behavior is socialised and how much is innate biology, peterson and evolutionary psychologists would say biology more		View
2 April 2019	3	30	Taleb will outlast Peterson. If you're just looking at book sales, go read 50 shades of grey. 🤣 Silly to judge a man's life while he is still alive.		View
8 June 2018	3	7	when ppl twerk, i am always reminded by baboons who also do the same social cues, which reminds me of a question i keep asking myself. how much of human behavior is socialised and how much is innate biology, peterson and evolutionary psychologists would say biology more		View
17 December 2022	2	36	the biggest right wing proponent of psycho therapy is jordan peterson, same guy on a ton of meds, has been in a coma due to his narco terror regime, and cries publicly in interviews. i highly advise against such practices, its not natural, no science behind it either		View
12 February 2020	2	23	you wont save western civilisation. you are jordan peterson		View
7 December 2022	2	21	That’s not what democracy means. But I agree. Any state should be transparent and private citizens should be private. Peterson is a cop out.		View
25 June 2018	2	11	why do people mock others on here so often ? why do people attack others here so much ? why so much "trolling" status games. this is what peterson talks about when he talks about lobsters, constantly "g checking" one another. they try to determine hierarchy and status		View
4 June 2018	2	7	youtube ; 13 y.o , long term effects are not good on mental health people citing stress and anxiety not to mention how its algos are "radicalising young men with peterson" tinder: the app sex market : age 6 y.o extrapolate effect on society and humans 😉		View
27 September 2021	1	29	Imagine taking Peterson seriously in 2021 🤨 Public intellectualism has decentralised.		View
22 September 2020	1	27	the world has moved on from fedora redditism... the new post left right it gave birth to, is equally cringe. who in their right mind would want to live like shapiro, peterson or that ruben ex comedian guy.		View
23 March 2023	1	26	YOU MAY PLAN TO WRITE A BOOK SOME DAY, BUT YOU ARE LIVING A BOOK EVERY DAY. - WILFERD PETERSON		View
2 April 2019	1	17	I personally don't care about talebs personal vendettas. Doing tit for tat is minor. I don't advocate dismissing of Peterson either. I have his book and seen his lecture in person. But using book sales as a metric is a Intellectual yet idiot tactic.		View
9 December 2024	1	15	Damn he also didn’t like Jordan Peterson		View
15 June 2018	1	10	departure - leaving childhood initiation - realising adulthood return - adulthood this also follows some psychoanalytic thought see jungian myth jordan peterson uses this in his self help area of work usually used for men, helps guide their "journey"		View
18 December 2018	1	0	Swap patriarchy for paternalism. What Peterson talks about re. The king. The guiding father figure. The wise old man. The wizard. God fits into this category for most iterations of religion.		View
21 July 2023	0	50	@JackedAecus I don’t want to be either. But if I had to choose. Tate. Peterson doesn’t seem to enjoy his life.		View
10 May 2026	0	49	@winter___fall i mean jordan peterson said it and went insane		View
28 January 2022	0	44	Let me summarise joe rogan Peterson interview. 4 hours of waffling.		View
3 November 2022	0	40	Jordan Peterson a crybaby fr		View
15 July 2022	0	11	Wouldn’t say he’s in the closet at all. He’d describe himself as a “classic liberal”. Same vein as Harris or Hitchens both of which are more neo. Peterson is very secular. And spent most his time in the field of psychology lMao.		View
27 July 2018	0	5	peterson looks like he smoked multiple blunts ahahaha		View
9 February 2021	0	3	@AdvThinking Peterson 101		View
27 October 2024	0	3	@AFpost Peterson should never have been a public intellectual. He’s not cut out for it. But I think he keeps at it because he sees it as a form of purgatory to prove to himself and to his god of his ability to withstand masochism.		View
8 March 2018	0	2	i dont think people that dont like peterson comprehend his current influence. went to his 40 min lecture here in london, he had sold out very quickly and did extra days, i went i had to stand as two floors were overflowing, in the Q&A ppl were just telling him that he saved lives		View
27 May 2018	0	2	jordan peterson is 55, its quite probable he will live for another 30 years.		View
22 June 2018	0	2	@zapravocovek @SeloSlav @BretWeinstein what you guys think of peterson on this though ? i think he rationalises it "why" well (psychology) but he goes too far lost into it - see Harris' critique on him (he abstracts a cook book like peterson reads into the bible) (similar to po-mo critical theory imo)		View
21 August 2018	0	2	@SeloSlav but i dont think it will eradicate it peterson can be seen as an emergent push back of this. him and taleb are rationalising against the new athiests if internet was more encroaching and eroding surely then we will see no emergence popularity of peterson or taleb		View
12 January 2019	0	2	@AtlasResolved @ThouArtThat @jdconners lesson in the peterson mistake : dont limit your teachers.		View
6 January 2023	0	2	@jordanbpeterson hello dr peterson, have you read mein kampf?		View
17 January 2018	0	1	@selobound also, for sources, see jordan b peterson, he has some evolutionary psych work. yeah evolutionary psych and anthropology will be a good place to start i reckon. and try to refrain from calling women monkey branch swingers lmaoo. labels on you are a barrier to a intellectual imo		View
8 February 2018	0	1	anyone with a cult around em best to stay weary and critical of them, especially "academics" and "intellectuals" peterson deserves critique just like marx and his cult		View
18 May 2018	0	1	hey, @jordanbpeterson have you seen this article that refers to you ? "Peterson will literally weep, actual flowing salty tears, in front of a video camera, over the fate of the young white male." by the self titled, male feminist, @damiengwalter ahahahah		View
8 August 2018	0	1	@cognazor agree, why i disagree with peterson(bio-determinist) and sociologists the same culture is too broad i break it up into corporeal and non corporeal(memetic) and all three as technologies (definition in thread)		View
1 September 2018	0	1	@ErrickRanford @elonmusk @nntaleb my cite for elon : "Elon exercises twice a week mainly lifting weights. " I agree on diminishing returns but I think the more you tend toward the health side the better even Peterson talks about cognitive effect of eating meat and lifting weights		View
31 January 2019	0	1	@JamesPDowling @jdconners @MimeticValue Yeah I was just taking your methodology and inverting via post modernism. It's subjective It's your subjective view. The same way Peterson uses post modernism as his argumentation device. Get paid and get laid. The only true philosophy of life. Cc : @dopaminendreams		View
19 October 2019	0	1	@tomxhart @Strigi_formes @divinit21172424 I think this is accurate. He was always quite pessimistic. Outlook is a big factor. Peterson is a priest. Trump is not a priest. I’m not surprised with what happened to him. He seemed to be neurotic. When I went to one of his talks in London. It felt like tele-evangelism.		View
21 January 2018	0	0	Too many jordan peterson ball lickers. Like damn bruh		View
7 February 2018	0	0	as a buyer of his books, attender of his lectures, and participant of his online program. i do have to say that this critique is a good view on peterson and his philosophy. the character bashing of him and his fanboys is inaccurate, and feeds into the main narrative against him		View
11 February 2018	0	0	@ClassicCommie So what youre saying is you like peterson		View
13 February 2018	0	0	both marx and peterson as examples, need to be thought of as humans, nothing more than flesh and bones. less ideologues the better.		View
10 April 2018	0	0	the peterson effect(you wont always be in the mood for lobster), i am the same i dont know how to feel about him. ive become resigned to the fact, there are things i agree with him on(selfhelp/truth) and some i dont(his religious "explanations" & cult following)		View
18 May 2018	0	0	side note, he is a good writer though, have to give him that. Then again he does teach that, and do it for a living. As what Peterson does with what his subject matter is. [insert shoemaker quote]		View
18 May 2018	0	0	@whoisdatnigga yeah i couldnt care less, but the amount of twisting of peterson im seeing is maddening, even ive criticised him but atleast i understand what he is getting at all these status quo lot, do not		View
21 May 2018	0	0	@shaandallen well what are you looking to gain ? if you want to improve quicker, go with peterson 5 rings is more abstract to apply and doesnt translate immediately well. its more business and mind set.		View
21 May 2018	0	0	@seunn99 me after watching peterson		View
26 May 2018	0	0	the only people who i see say this are then referencing someone else say "Read his books" where are these quantum peterson fans who tell you to read his works, his ideas are easy to transmute, as he borrows alot FYI: theres also documentated cross cultural incentivised monogamy		View
27 May 2018	0	0	before the Large Hadron Collider, there was no jordan peterson, he is a figment of the "collective unconscious" of the shared simulation reflecting back at itself trying to change the direction it was heading into, abyss.		View
31 May 2018	0	0	then again can one live religiously, without "believing" i think you can, stoicism is a mental based heuristic and other religions can be treated as such spirituality doesnt exist but looking at jordan peterson, one can live religiously without giving up rationality.		View
23 June 2018	0	0	@JonasBr58673834 @jordanbpeterson the world is getting better, news only cares about the bad stuff peterson should know about human bias tbh, as to why		View
2 March 2019	0	0	@justaskdude well thats the argument of the dark enlightenment(idk who is who anymore, nrx/acc peeps overlap alot), that the actual enlightenment set us on a path of progressivism that unleashed a pandoras box of memes, that has lead us to the fall of man, also fits in with peterson and chaos		View
2 April 2019	0	0	@l_lightbringer Yeah note in my reply I don't dismiss Peterson I'm just realistic on his longevity. However... Many have dismissed taleb to their own detriment.		View
8 May 2019	0	0	@SeloSlav Yes. Chaos is not feminine as Peterson says.		View
19 October 2019	0	0	@Strigi_formes @tomxhart @divinit21172424 Hmm. I think Peterson is just a normal dude. Most celebrities end up having a similar break down Wanted to help everyone. Became a preacher. A lot of priests are similar to him and his motives. Those attracted to communism have similar motives But charity ought to begin at home		View
20 October 2019	0	0	@Strigi_formes I was raised to believe that. I think most were. Reality I find requires open mindedness. Like art some subjectivity. It depends on the person and much more. I think that’s why Peterson ended up the way he did.		View

History

GritCult first posted about Jordan Peterson on 17 January 2018, and most recently on 10 May 2026. Across the archive the subject comes up 59 times, most often in 2018 (29 posts).

See also

The Doctrine portal

References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (7 February 2018). as a buyer of his books, attender of his lectures, and participant of his online program. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (10 April 2018). there are things i agree with him on(selfhelp/truth) and some i dont(his religious "explanations" & cult following). X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (25 June 2018). status games. this is what peterson talks about when he talks about lobsters. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (1 February 2019). you have false priests like peterson, who balk in fear at the notion of chaos, they want to restrict movement, fluidity, they want order. they misunderstand, without movement, there is decay! X.
5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (27 September 2021). Imagine taking Peterson seriously in 2021... Public intellectualism has decentralised. X.
6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 October 2022). i probably would not recommend jordan peterson to anyone... would you trade lives with him? if no then not that deep. X.
7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (31 October 2023). psychology as a field cannot be considered a science as it has a huge systemic reproducibility problem. also peterson just regurgitated jung. X.
8. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (18 December 2024). biggest midwit signal authors:... you would be better off not reading anything of their work than to be contaminated by their mind viruses. X.

External links

• Posts about Jordan Peterson by GRITCULT on X
• Jordan Peterson on Wikipedia