Everything You Need to Know About Jordan Peterson’s Visit to Serbia
Professor Jordan Peterson arrived in Belgrade, where he would spend the next few months to overcome his drug addiction, reports Serbian “Nedeljnik”.
His daughter Mikhaila says that her father has significant problems with anti-anxiety drugs. When he failed to recover from his addiction to clinics in North America, he went to Russia. He was there in the emergency department in grave condition for four weeks, but he survived.
The consequences of drug abuse left a deep mark, and he had to recover. Then it turned out that the recovery specialists were in a Russian clinic in Belgrade. There, innovative methods and psychological procedures cause patients to have an aversion to narcotics. Peterson should release a video about it soon.
The addiction began a year ago. Peterson was taking medication for anxiety, and the situation deteriorated when his wife Tammy was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Doctors increased the dose of drugs so that he could face growing unrest. Over time, Peterson had refrained from talking and became unsocial. He was on the verge of panic and couldn’t stay still.
Feeling better now, he celebrated his birthday in a restaurant in Belgrade last week. People stop him on the street and react friendly when they meet him.
But not everyone reacts friendly to Peterson.
He refused to use gender-neutral pronouns on the demand of his university when addressing students. He was not particularly interested in politics until he saw how the leftist narrative filtered the faculties.
When you search Jordan Peterson on YouTube, you will see that his most-watched video is the interview he gave for Channel 4. Hard talk interview is not a new genre in journalism. However, it is impressive how calm Peterson was during the whole conversation, despite the fighting spirit of the presenter, who used various manipulation techniques.
“So, you’re saying…” is a conversational trick that other person uses to imply that you said something you did not. The simplest way to resist this trick is not to go into what the other person said, but to start with: “I’m saying…”, and tell what you think.
Still, the culmination of the conversation was when Peterson let the journalist know that she was in the same position as him. When she accused him that his freedom of speech could not be higher than the freedom of a transgender person not to feel offended, Peterson had a ready answer.
He told the journalist that she berates him all the time. However, her right to freedom of speech is more significant than his right not to feel offended, Peterson pointed. For a short time, the presenter didn’t know how to continue the interview.
“Gotcha,” Peterson said at the end.
