This was his real quote LMAO

Capitalism is the Benzodiazepines of the masses

benzodiazepines is the carnivore diet of the masses

Communism is psilocybin. It grows from humble places. It brings out hard truths through intense dialogue and self-examination. It gives the ability to see patterns in things.

And sometimes it makes you panic because you see how sinister the ordinary world can be.
Idk I just get a looming sense that everything will be darkness forever, and nothing will ever be ok.
- From shrooms or communism?
- I mean, that's just a bad trip

Nevertheless, another reading can be made of Marx. The often cited phrase--"religion is the opium of the people"--is truncated. What follows this remark lets it be understood that human beings need opium, because they are metaphysical animals who cannot avoid asking themselves questions about the meaning of life. They give what answers they can, either adopting those offered by religion or inventing new ones, or else they avoid worrying about them.

You know, he could have bothered to actually read Marx before saying dumb shit.

The full quote from Marx, in context, is:

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions.

Also what comes immediately before:
For Germany, the criticism of religion has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism.
The profane existence of error is compromised as soon as its heavenly oratio pro aris et focis [“speech for the altars and hearths,” i.e., for God and country] has been refuted. Man, who has found only the reflection of himself in the fantastic reality of heaven, where he sought a superman, will no longer feel disposed to find the mere appearance of himself, the non-man [Unmensch], where he seeks and must seek his true reality.
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.
- Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world.
  You see Peterson cannot elaborate on this because he's a religious person who hates modernity, so this short circuits his entire belief system and ideology.
Why bother reading when your hordes of impressionable twitter followers aren't going to read either? He gets paid either way.

A psychiatrist I know once told me, "Meth-Amphetamine would help most people; the problem is, it helps too much and is easily abused."

As someone who led a very Speed Heavy Lifestyle for a bit, yes.

man who has only ever done drugs: getting a lot of drugs vibes from this

The Nazis put Communism in their chocolate? That doesn't seem right...

That was the socialist part of national socialism.
- inb4 tankies say the Nazis weren't real socialists

Are the masses in the room with us now?

"benzo of the masses" rolls of the tongue better

Rolls over his tongue better too.
Abusing benzos is our last line of defense against neo-marxism!

shniff

Top shelf communism disrupting my circadian rhythms

3 days and counting... do we ever get to sleep again?

isn't like half his philosphy that he's a christian? what does this MEAN peterson? are you saying religion is bad but communism is worse? are you saying religion is good because opium is good? is religion harm reduction? are chrsitian socialists junkies? tell me your secrets, benzo man.

It's a new version of the old "communism is a cult too" take typical for the cultists to have, accusing communists of hypocrisy, but being firmly anchored of hypocrisy itself (and of course not reading). Also it wouldn't be Peterson if he didn't doubled down since he's not only cultist but also junkie.
His brain is scrambled because of benzo. Lesson of the day, eat your broccoli and do drugs responsibly
- Benzos should be entirely avoided tbh. Worst drug class
I thought he avoided making firm claims on his own beliefs because a substantial portion of his fan base are angry internet atheists from the Bush era
- Jordan Peterson's stance on god

Actually religion slots well into the meth role.

It makes people paranoid of things that aren't really there too.

Cashier giving me a suspicious look. we both know I'm buying a cartful of diy communism ingredients and a monster energy drink

Conservatives are so bad at making communism look bad.

It enables people to get a truly obscene amount of work done in an incredibly short time?

Conservatives stop making communism cool challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

So that's why I've been grinding my teeth so much lately

Makes sense, every time I've taken amphetamines I have ended up feeling more sober

I guess I should get tested for adhd, but my point still stands

Makes sense given that he's into downers and not uppers.

I don't think he's religious I think he has a patrician attitude that people should go to church on sundays because it's the done thing

sorry I couldn't hear you over all these Lenin-branded dextroamphetamine tablets could you stop vibrating for a sec and repeat that I'm in kind of a hurry too gotta storm the winter palace with the boys before it wears off
Guess if we want to do something about it we'll need universal healthcare so we don't have another war on drugs
The "meth of the masses" analogy would mean that it still has the unhealthy, deceptive and deafening aspects of a drug addiction, but without the "soothing last refuge of peace" part
Then the analogy is spot on.
- oh shit communism btfo