(September 23, 2018 at 10:09 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Yeah, I'm not gonna defend spanking. And I don't think it's really a central theme for Peterson, anyway.
Not a central theme, but an illustration of the major problem with Peterson and this book in particular: it's basically repackaging old reactionary ideas as "common sense" reaction to the problems of today, when they do nothing but rebuild the conditions that make them exist in the first place, and his approach is working because he alternates between making banal statements that can, in fact, help improve others, and then making remarks that are so ambiguously phrased that they can either be treated as common sense or provocative right-wing talking points, so that when people object, he has an easy out, claiming others are misrepresenting him. And that's why the infamous Channel 4 interview with him went the way it did.
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
