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Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?
(August 30, 2018 at 8:58 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Importantly to the conversation..we are born as descendants of creatures who competed fiercely (and ruthlessly) with each other in groups based on rudimentary identification like "looks different from me and mine".  To an extent, racism is built in, a feature that has since become a bug.  That might also help to explain some portion of the allure and ability of normalizing language.  We want it to be true.  We want to be better than the Other.  Our fortune is down to our merit, theirs to their laziness.  We fear that they might take our things.  We think that they eye us as suspiciously as we eye them.  If they would just do what we do, they wouldn't be in their situation.  It's on them, not us, and no one else.  If they get anything that we don't get..or as much as we have (solely through our hard work, ofc..lol) then that's double plus ungood and unfair.
True very true
Seek strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy -- myself.

Inuit Proverb

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RE: Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this? - by Amarok - August 30, 2018 at 9:12 pm

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