Stones analogy is spot on
		
		
	 
I'm probably being self-indulgent in saying this, but I say what I feel these days. In 1969, Brian Jones died and the Rolling Stones needed a new guitarist. They found a young kid from John Mayall's blues band, and gave him the job. He was the wonderful Mick Taylor, a tremendous, precocious talent, gifted with a perfect, emotional guitar tone and a liquid grace on the fretboard. Between 1969-74, they created all the great perennial classics that still afford them joy, respect and love even today. But, and it's a biggie, the Stones were a druggy band, and Taylor didn't fancy a life as a high-functioning junkie. He quit the band in 1974 for health reasons, and they subsequently hired Ronnie Wood for the vacant slot. He's a great rock n' roller, but he's not in Taylor's league for feel and tone. The Stones continued (to this very day, amazingly) to perform but never scaled the heights of their early pomp. They sacrificed purity of intent for continued relevance, chasing the latest trends and fads in popular music and always coming up short. They lost some of their essence.
And so it is with Peterson. He fought postmodernism and the LGBTQ+ throngs with razor sharp intellect, married to an impressive moral force. He was, in essence, a "great soul" in these days. Maybe he got too much praise, too much hot air and opportunities? He got wooly in his thinking. He bent over backwards to accommodate Liberal Judeo-Christian thinkers, to the cost of his own intellectual integrity. So, to conclude the Stones analogy, Peterson sacrificed purity of intent for continued relevance, chasing Dennis Prager and Ben Shapiro and the Judeo-Christian orthodoxy, yet always coming up short. And he suffered drug-related problems! The similarities are potent. He lost some of his essence! I know it's a bit of a cheesy comment, but I think there's a point in there....
 
 
Just for the record, I love the Stones, Mick Taylor and Jordan Peterson. But don't make heroes out of human figures, and the same message I'd relay to the Groypers crowing today. Be careful with heroes, because mostly they are very human figures once you get past all the bluster and hyperbole.