Jordan Peterson doesn’t understand George Orwell

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A video about Jordan Peterson, George Orwell and the dystopian world of 1984.

* Chapters*
0:00 Our Orwellian Present
01:24 1. Jordan Peterson: Orwell Fan
05:33 2. Orwell and Peterson after the Cold War
11:53 3. The Politics of George Orwell
18:31 Surfshark VPN Spot
20:13 4. Rethinking 1984
29:05 5. Jordan Peterson and the Decline of "Western Culture"

*Some Copy about the Video for the YouTube Algorithm*

In this month's video, we're looking at the work of both Jordan B. Peterson (author of Maps of Meaning, 12 Rules for Life and Beyond Order) and George Orwell (author of 1984, Animal Farm and Homage to Catalonia).

Professor Peterson has a video on his YouTube channel titled "On Free Thought and Speech in London" in which, inspired by seeing a statue of Orwell, he suggests that one of the aspects which separated the capitalist west from the communist east during the Cold War was an ability for journalists to "say what they think".

Taking this as a starting point, I seek to dig into uses (and abuses) of George Orwell's work by Peterson and the political right more broadly. Through contextualising Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm within Orwell's own life, I seek to draw out the deep critiques of Peterson's beloved "Western culture" which are contained within those books.

Towards the end, I also consider whether 1984 might provide an interesting lens for unpacking Peterson's own work and the Cold War view of the world which underlies it.

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