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Written by Martijn Faassen on 2025-01-20 at 00:09

It struck me today that Jordan Peterson is the "western tradition" version of Deepak Chopra: he gets by on pseudo-profound bullshit.

I find the phenomenon of secular guru types fascinating. The "Decoding the Gurus" podcast does well going into what makes them tick.

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Written by Martijn Faassen on 2025-01-20 at 00:09

It strikes me that Richard Stallman and Eric Raymond were that kind of guru in the limited space of software, for some. For me, the more I learned about them the less they were - and they never went beyond influencer to me. You have to be rather full of yourself more than normal people already are to be this type of guru.

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Written by J Λ M Ξ S on 2025-01-20 at 04:14

@faassen stallman is a legitimate genius. i aint gonna defend the decisions he's made in life, but the sheer amount of work he did to get open source going is so crazy to me. and it all happened because he got pissed off that HP wouldnt give him the source code for his printer. takes someone unusual, to say the least, to overreact into creating a movement that genuinely changed the world.

and again, i aint gonna defend the decisions he's made in life. that's for him to do.

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Written by Martijn Faassen on 2025-01-20 at 06:53

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Ah yes I wasn't suggesting Stallman or Raymond engage in pseudo profound bullshit. Just that they had guru like influence on people..

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