Have you thought about intrusive thoughts? Here's a brilliant TikTok on the subject:
@natsingssongs intrusive thoughts but make it a jam? 💃🏻🕺🏻#memes #intrusivethoughts #songwriter #fyp
♬ original sound - Natalie Burdick
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"I've been called a Nazi before. It's not pleasant. This is one step beyond that. Nazi, apparently, isn't enough. I have to be a magical super-Nazi."
The video is from April 8th. Here are tweets from April 6th, showing the way the Ta-Nehisi Coates comic book satirizes Peterson:
What the hell? https://t.co/CGkuztpEjq
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) April 6, 2021
Do I really live in a universe where Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a Captain America comic featuring a parody of my ideas as part of the philosophy of the arch villain Red Skull? https://t.co/waFsAvWlfd
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) April 6, 2021
In the video, Peterson brings up his illness and says it's taken away his sense of humor. He expresses admiration for the way his daughter is having fun with the whole thing. Here she is:
So much about "merch" in that video! But it's good in showing the "memes" Peterson's supporters have made out the merging of Peterson and Red Skull. I don't follow the superhero movies at all. (I've never seen even one Marvel movie.) But it is funny to have a semi-scary villain character saying things like "Clean your room."
And yet, Peterson and his supporters may make the mistake of watering him down. Coates may have laid a very clever trap. Portraying Peterson as a demonically evil character causes the supporters to portray Peterson as anodyne — a mutterer of motherly platitudes. Peterson is thus tricked into giving up all that makes him powerful.
If that trick works, I declare Ta-Nehisi Coates an intellectual superhero.
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ADDED: I would buy the comic book in question and read it, but the articles about this controversy don't seem to identify the particular issue of the series. I went to Amazon and did a search, but it was very confusing, because if you put the results in order of publication dates, the top is full of yet-to-be-released issues. You can "pre-order" things that won't be out until January 2022. I lost patience. And I put "pre-order" in quotes because if you "pre-order," you are still ordering. It just won't be delivered for a while.
Indelible George Carlin rant:
This is a rock-solid comic rant.
It's not just "Nomadland." It's everything nominated for an Oscar this year.
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@devon_palmer Play catch
♬ original sound - devon palmer
FROM THE EMAIL: Doug writes:
I just watched the video which you posted about the son practicing his delivery to his father and his father practicing his delivery as well.
My wife died from a rare variation of lymphoma six years ago. Our daughter had just turned nine. My wife and I had agreed how to manage her absence in our daughter’s daily life, so I dropped my hours to part time and accepted the associated 40 percent salary reduction. (I’m grateful to my former employer for allowing me to reduce my hours and keep my job. They were brilliant.)
As a result, I was available to my daughter when she wanted to be with me. We had already paid off the mortgage, so the income reduction didn’t threaten our security. However, money became tighter and there are activities and objects which I can’t afford anymore. I wondered many times if I made the right decision.
This video confirms that the decision was correct. I hate to think of my daughter being in that poor boy’s situation. I feel much better. Thanks for posting the video.
Whenever you make an important decision, you create potential for regret, whichever way you go. But when you choose to be a great father, you are spared the terribly painful regret that this video would inspire if you'd gone the other way.
I imagine most people watching on TikTok are young, so maybe this video will inspire some fathers who still have the chance to make the right choice.
For men more my age, you might have been inspired by this pop song:
