Jorden Peterson is attempting to return to public life after recovering from addiction to exotic barbiturates, by publishing a list of 12 new rules.
- Is he really in the best position to be shilling a self help book? When you need to travel the globe for professional help for your own problems.
- Does this invalidate all the previous rules?
- Does the promise of even more sequels just invalidate these new rules?
Penguin Random House Staff Confront Publisher About New Jordan Peterson Book
During a tense town hall, staff cried and expressed dismay with the publishing giant's decision to publish 'Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life.'
On Monday, Penguin Random House Canada, Canada’s largest book publisher and a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, announced it will be publishing Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Peterson, to be released in March 2021. The book will be published by Portfolio in the U.S. and Penguin Press in the U.K., both part of the Penguin Random House empire.
Four Penguin Random House Canada employees, who did not want to be named due to concerns over their employment, said the company held a town hall about the book Monday, during which executives defended the decision to publish Peterson while employees cited their concerns about platforming someone who is popular in far-right circles.
“He is an icon of hate speech and transphobia and the fact that he’s an icon of white supremacy, regardless of the content of his book, I’m not proud to work for a company that publishes him,” ...
Benzo addiction is no joke, and should absolutely be treated with the help of a professional. Yet Peterson has sets a dangerous example for his legions of young, male followers if they develop this problem in the future.
A real neat trick of the modern era where you can write a mostly unobjectionable book of tv dinner self-help advice. Then save all of the clickbait and corrosive shit for youtube and patreon. Then have your legions of fans to claim that everyone's crying over a mild little book.
Seems like Random House very *clearly* knew this was going to be a problem with their staff, because the article mentions that the publisher went out of their way to hide it from the employees, which might have had a little something to do with why they're upset.