Sent to the Taco Gulag - The Postmodernist Drinking Song (preview)
This week Jordan B Peterson sends us to the Taco Gulag as we check out his new song and music video, "The Postmodernist Drinking Song," a bewildering cacophony of circus music with screeds against postmodernist philosophers, alcohol, feminists, and communist fast food restaurants Also: Elon Musk releases his new AI for blue check subscribers (at twice the price), and boy does this thing have a twisted sense of humor. Finally: Alex chat is put to a screeching halt as a Patron cancels their membership over Alex's UPS work stories. We go through the excoriating feedback and debate whether to share 2 new stories that could make Alex seem too tough and cool. Sign up at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult for $5/month and get 2 bonus episodes a week plus 20% off all merch
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Okay, it's anti-Foucault.
I'm not qualified to weigh in on Foucault.
I've never read Foucault.
What's happening right now?
This is the song?
Okay, it's anti-Foucault.
I'm not qualified to weigh in on Foucault.
I've never read Foucault.
I don't give a fuck about Foucault or what Jordan Peterson thinks is wrong with Foucault.
It's just funny that this is what he's putting out.
I mean, all of his arguments about postmodernism are ass.
So maybe I am.
Maybe I am Foucaultian.
I just can't believe this is the song.
Yeah, so he describes it down so he describes it down here as it's based on an old English folk song.
Yeah, it sounds like one of the oldest songs in the world.
The Ballad of Lydia Pinkman, by way of a 1960s British pop group, The Scaffold, whose variant Lily the Pink reached number one in the UK singles chart in 1968.
He's trying to sound smart here.
What he means is this is a Pink Floyd song.
This is like an old Pink Floyd song.
But before they kicked the craziest guy out of the band, like this, you know, I got to use my words carefully, but like the production and as a songwriter myself, I'm saying this from a very personal place, like, The songwriting and production and instrumentation on this piece, you're getting into what the kids would call schizo territory here.
Yeah, yeah.
It's pretty wild.
It's gnarly.
It's really something else to listen to, I'll be honest.
Yeah.
Um, Emilio, don't worry.
It's cool.
Like regulate still exists.
So like, it's okay to be straight edge right now.
In my opinion, it's actually a good time to be straight edge right now.
Um, so don't, don't let, don't let JP ruin it for you.
Um, although I, I do think that you now, if you didn't accept before, you now have to accept when you go anywhere.
So you do differentiate yourself from JP.
Yeah, negative affirmation says dude this makes sense to an audience of about three people and Peterson is one.
Tell that to the 487,000 views and 32,000 upvotes here as well as 4,400 comments.
You really think they're just full of shit and they're pretending to know what he's talking about?
I don't think so.
Is this like what he listens to?
Yeah, he listens to, like, marching band music, dude.
Cause I remember, like, I remember him crying about live jam, a jam band at a bar.
Yeah, it was bar blues.
It was like, it was like, uh, blues travelers shit.
Yeah.
So funny.
Can you, like, give us the end of this?
Give us, like, a little more of this video.
I think it's that for five minutes.
I think it's da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da He has to leave this room.
He has to leave this bedroom.
Just like skip forward like a half way through.
*Creative racist* *Creative racist* Oh there you go, there you go.
*Creative racist* Are people drunk?
Are people really drunk right now?
That was his daughter, dude.
dude.
He had his daughter do a shot and blow a kiss practically at the camera.
What's that?
Can I say something and no one gets mad at me?
People have already said it.
I don't know.
Oh, do you think Abby Shapiro is hot too, dude?
A little bit.
A little bit.
- Oh, that's so crazy. - What was that? - So yeah, Jordan Peterson's watching all this footage and laying on his bed and kicking his feet around and like snacking and being a general layabout.
This life looks so much cooler than what his life is.
What's?
What's the music video?
Where the normal guy kind of dances through all of it?
The.
The one with Christopher Walken?
Yeah.
OK, so not a choice.
Weapon of choice.
It's like it could almost be something like that.
If it's this still right here, it makes you feel that way.
Snacking and bouncing on his bed to this song.
And like, he kind of looks like he's having a good time.
Yeah.
This is like one of the first times I've seen him smile without crying.
He looks healthy in this right.
This little frame right here.
Yeah.
But just like just like click halfway through it.
Just like just punch through it.
Don't even watch it.
Richard Rorty.
What?
It's truly not helpful.
What?
What?
With his assurance, nothing's real.
Commie pig.
Did he just put lipstick on a pig?
He was a commie pig.
Richard Rorty, I guess, is a postmodernist philosopher that Jordan Peterson hates.
Made a school shooter music video about...
He just put lipstick on a pig.
It was a communist pig, too.
Do you get it?
It's a double meaning because it's a metaphor for putting lipstick on a pig.
And then on top of that, it's another freaking metaphor.
He inceptioned the English language through metaphor.
Is the bag that the communist pig delivered to him, again, like another service worker that he fucking hates?
Another gig worker he wants, like, thrown in prison?
The branding is sick, though.
The branding's tight.
I get fast food from this place.
It's, yeah, it's got some sort of machine gun on the side of it.
Oh, and it does have ham six.
And then it's got, I think, Stalin and Lenin.
And if a pig's delivering it to you, I'm guessing it's vegan, so I'd get like a fuckin' buffalo chicken sandwich from this place.
How fuckin' stupid do you have to be?
Like... Okay, the satire here...
Is that corporations are communists now, right?
Yes.
Yeah.
How stupid do you have to be to believe that?
First of all, very dumb.
But then also to put communist symbols on the corporate logos.
There's I mean, there there are corporations who pretend to be like woke, radical or whatever.
The criticism of that is that they're obviously full of shit.
Yeah.
But to take it at face value and put like a hammer and sickle on the burger because it's like such a literal type of metaphor.
Very weird.
It's fucking it's fucking like to 2007 street art.
You know, it's fucking Banksy.
Yeah, I don't... Lizzie says real question, though.
What is his point?
He's like dunking on these dead philosophers with a McDonald's bag that has Lennon's face on it.
This is how you look.
And I'm like, this looks cool.
Oh, like, dude's cut loose, dude.
Oh, dude, I don't care, baby.
It's not extreme.
What of hunger?
Good.
What?
Are they mean?
He's eating meatballs with his hands.
This is a horror film.
This is a horror film.
This is, uh, oh, I've seen this one before.
This is called Trash Humpers.
Uh, it's actually a little controversial.
I think there might be some slurs later on.
Do you see this gloved pig?
Mr. Skeptic.
Mr. Skeptic.
I feel lonely as well.
Oh, okay.
When a child lacks a meal.
This should be on the score to seven. - This is not a good thing to listen to.
Something horrible is happening.
So many people have been activated in the comments here.
So many of these people have irrevocably changed their lives, have altered the course of their fates by watching this.
Those, those marionettes are made out of real people parts.
And that's the thing.
They're all singing the same song at the same time.
It's surreal.
It's, it's freaky.
There's fucking housings and meatballs partying.
- It's rules.
- Ah.
- Who are they?
- Yeah, hell yeah.
- Girls.
- Dude, this guy is nuts, man.
Andrea Dworkin, she's a whorekin.
She said that I freaking raped her.
This is nuts, dude.
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