Need a plate of generic, insipid platitudes with a giant helping of bad science and misogyny?
I used to like him. I fell for the crap. To my 16 year old brain what he said made a lot of sense. He had a handful of good points, and it made me believe the rest of the shit he peddled.
I see him now, I look back on how I hung onto his words like a lost lamb, and I can only facepalm.
I realised that the only thing he is good at is marketing, not psychology...
I didn't believe him, I believed the positive messages he send and implanted. I don't care about him nowadays, but I also don't regret internalizing certain stuff he preached. It wasn't totally bullshit of what he said, until a point where he completely drifted off.
Thankfully I stopped watching any of his stuff quite a while before that happened, so I dodged this whole mess and only saw the burning ship wrack from the distance. I understand the hard feelings of others who are more involved in this topic though.
To agree, that something someone said, was correct, isn't a bad thing. Even if the stuff that follows is off the mark.
To regret that, would also mean regretting failure, but without failure there's no progress.
It's the worst kind of job. Taking advantage of developing teens and their self-issues to make money like that.
Realistically, half the economy runs essentially on that.
Fashion, large parts of tech (Facebook, Tinder, Pornhub,...), entertainment, ...
I can help you as well. Just turn to Hedonism, which is pretty much the opposite of what Jelly B Peanutbutter tells you to do.
Quit your job, become an artist. Heck, become a twitch streamer, I don't care. Try to do what brings you joy. And remember to eat the rich.
But don't try to get into art school! That'll end bad.
So many of these awful grifters are actually just failed artists because not everyone can be what they want... It's why there is a slight failing to that age old leftist argument of studying art.
Tucker Carlson once wrote his college thesis on why a certain senator was the only true American and how the ideals of Bernie Sanders would be the social, pro-working class answer to Americans need for a better country. And then he was told his paper was boring, his writing credits barely made it anywhere and then he got insulted for wearing a bowtie.
I hate the little weasel fucker but he wasn't born this way he was made through choices and interactions that he failed to take in a way that lots of others would fail at. Society really makes it's own enemies.
Well, Carlson wasn't exactly the person I had in mind, and calling this person grifter might be an understatement. But maybe I'm biased.
Never take advice on personal responsibility from a guy who intentionally put himself in a coma to avoid taking responsibility for his addiction to a narcotic with zero medicinal properties.
It's so weird for me that he seemed surprised that benzos are, in fact, highly addictive with severe withdraw symptoms. Isn't he a psychologist and potentially someone who is allowed to prescribe such drugs?
Fortunately only psychiatrists can prescribe drugs and they're actual physicians.
That's an important distinction that too few people understand:
Psychiatrists: medical doctors with a specialization in mental health who can prescribe drugs
Psychologists: trained professionals with an academic degree who provide mental health care by (generally) talking with you
Both are important health care providers, but they generally do very different things, and in a mental health crisis you best have one of each at hand.
Oh god, this is so embarassing for us as a society.
Young men look for guidance, and all they find is Rape Tate who tells you to be an alpha male by just being obnoxiously "superior" to others.
John Peanutbutter who tells you to be an alpha male but with science in your brain
fresh and fit who tell you to be alpha males but by figuratively just shaming women
and on the opposite side you have nothing for a while and then you have destiny and hasan who try to make you debate like highschoolers.
Is the world just full of grifters now?
I would have appreciated if the bottom right panel said "Hold my benzos" instead.