A few days ago I appeared on a livestream hosted by PF Jung (aka Paul) and confronted him on his understanding of Jordan Peterson. I pointed Paul to Troy Parfitt’s book “The Devil and His Due: How Jordan Peterson Plagiarizes Hitler” positing Troy’s main claim that JP is a schizophrenic narcissist who is running a Hitlerite Cult. Well, as you can expect Paul was not never receptive to the idea.
It should be noted that I don’t really watch Paul’s streams or videos on religion and gender; I find them to be meandering and nonsensical, especially his religion videos on account of my own beliefs about Jordan Peterson. I find his (JP) methodology and claims about religion highly dubious, as he frequently exhibits traits I would associate with an authoritarian theologian and employs circular reasoning to make many of his esoteric religious claims. One day I might write something exploring JP methods but for now, this will do.
In an email with Troy Parfitt I stated that Paul’s obsession with trans issues is fundamentally about identity. People like Paul l have deep psychological concerns about their own identity; hence why they are so eager to take on the metaphysical world view of people like JP. Jordan Peterson is an essentialist and he justifies it in the same ways that people like Mircea Eliade and Julius Evola did- by harkening back to esoteric mythology. In Eliade's words, JP, Paul (maybe) and the rest of them are the primitive men experiencing the "terror of history".
My questioning of Paul begins at 1 hour 13 minute mark, enjoy.