Jordan Peterson Reacts To Marvel’s Red Skull Comic

what's the story with you and red skull well i don't know i mean i came across this last week and and someone tweeted me this this cartoon this comic captain america comic and i saw this screenshot of red skull looking at a computer screen and it said ten rules for life that was one text box it said order and chaos and there was a couple of other boxes and i thought well that seems to be making a reference to my work i mean 10 rules for life is pretty close to 12 rules for life and of course the main themes i discuss are order in chaos um i mean one book is about order and the other's about chaos and my first book is about both so it's a joke you know associating my ideas with this arch villain magic super nazi red skull and then as i looked into it more deeply and as people sent me more information it became clear that at least some of the inspiration for this red skull character in this captain america uh variant was appeared to be targeting let's say or satirizing or warning about my ideas and so i've been playing with that ever since i suppose on twitter people are producing memes now of red skull oh superimposed upon the picture of him things i've actually said instead of the hypothetical things that the people who don't like me wish i said and then purposefully misinterpret and so that's that and it's i'm trying to make it into something playful it's so absurd it shocked me to begin with i couldn't believe it to begin with it especially when i found out who the author of the comic book was so you know he's uh intellectual figure among the leftist community uh relatively well known and politically correct and i i didn't expect it it it really threw me for a loop to begin with i mean it's really something to see yourself portrayed let's say parodied satirized um as a i've been called a nazi before it's not pleasant but this is one step beyond that i mean nazi apparently isn't enough i have to be a magical super nazi and you know by implication well really it's so it's so it's so surreal and absurd that that i couldn't believe it to begin with and it and then i think what's happening with it is so comical because red skull is a demonic character i mean he's a satanic character and in his looks and in his actions and people are putting my words over his representation and there's a jarring discontinuity between the visual image and the actual words especially for the quotes that have been derived from my talks that are in some sense more straightforward and and commonsensical like you know clean up your room or or don't lie um they're not exactly the sorts of messages that the most malevolent imaginable nazi super villain would dream up and promulgate so i think we're doing a t-shirt based on this image a kid developed in eastern europe which is a variant of the hail hydra logo except it's transformed into a lobster we're going to market a limited edition poster and then donate all the proceeds to charity that's that's today's plan that should be launched by tomorrow so that'd be what's today's thursday april what is it today 11th or so i don't even know what date it is april 8th it is the 8th so yeah i think that'll be up on the 9th or 10th of april so well if i'm playing with it if that's not turning chaos into order i don't know what is well it's kind of an interesting challenge you know and and when because i've been so ill it's been very difficult for me to maintain my sense of humor which is a terrible loss um you know it's the best response to that sort of thing is is a deft play you know rather than an outrage even though it it is outrageous it's it's outrageous to the point of being surreal and that's partly why it was so shocking to me i couldn't believe that that could possibly be real but there was you know and many people who fancy themselves as my enemies have pointed out that well i'm probably so much like this red skull character that i'm just imagining that it's a parody of my ideas but i'm afraid that's a pretty weak argument given the you know virtual word for word similarity of ten rules for life and chaos in order no that's not a coincidence sorry we can just add it to the list of weird things that's happened over the last 18 months or so that you've now ended up in a marvel comic yeah well it's like a weird thing seems i i don't know yes my life seems to predictably consist of unpredictably weird things and i don't really know what to make of that and neither my family as well because it tends to throw them for a loop as well although my daughter at the moment is having some fun playing with this she's also healthy enough to have regained her sense of humor so she's quite enthusiastic about the opportunity that this lays out

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Length: 6min 3sec (363 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 09 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/thecommiedian]

What a joke. He pretends all he talks about is his chicken soup for the incel self help programme instead of his objectivist white supremacist ideology.

The whole thing is so sad because he's been satirized and we all recognize it because there is more than a kernel of truth in the magical super nazi trope used to represent him.

You might say it's a timeless archetype we all intrinsically recognize. Kind of like his own analysis.