My Take | How America’s predatory state has left China behind in the dust
- Embarrassing congressional testimony by the Canadian self-help guru Jordan Peterson may have been better directed at US rather than China
Some 7½ minutes into his congressional testimony video clip, Canada’s world famous self-help guru complained: “Do I have my five minutes or do I not?”
One thing you can always count on with Professor Jordan Peterson is that if he can make a short speech, he will make it much longer, and speak in long sentences when shorter ones will do. He always makes simple and pedestrian ideas sound so complicated.
Here are two typical sentences from his congressional testimony, which he was asked to summarise by a panel member who interrupted:
“… the ultimate fascist collusion between gigantic self-interested corporations and paranoid security obsessed anti-human governments.”
“We are already selling our souls to the superstate for the purposes of immediate gratification and convenience, while being enticed to do so by fearmongering ideologues, guaranteeing to us the security which we so desperately and increasingly crave.”
It’s not clear why a psychologist was asked to be one of six witnesses before the House judiciary select subcommittee on the subject of “Weaponisation of the federal government”.