RE: Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion
October 2, 2018 at 12:16 pm
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2018 at 12:18 pm by GrandizerII.)
(October 2, 2018 at 11:56 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:(October 2, 2018 at 11:21 am)Grandizer Wrote: Yeah, Benny is clearly a bright guy, but I don't get the impression that he is bothered much that there are people less fortunate who are struggling because men in power won't bother to fix the problems they themselves have contributed to and worsened.
Yeah, I’m the first to admit I don’t have much faith anymore in the forces of good defeating the forces of evil, or even being all that different from them deep down, but I still have the presence of mind to not think “well, these unjust hierarchies are a good thing.” Inevitable, perhaps, and certainly difficult to take down, but not good by any means.
I’m pessimistic to a fault and maybe fatalistic (if fatalism technically encompasses the idea that what’s fated is still terrible), but I still understand that there’s a lot of people getting ground underfoot by all this horseshit we live in and it’s not a good thing.
Well, I'm a bit of a cynic myself in the sense that I don't think that we have what it takes to fix much shit up at this stage of the species "life span" (I mean, too many people in denial of their privilege is just one of the many attitudinal problems of this world), but I do believe that at some point far beyond our lifetimes, "we" will get to a point that we currently consider to be too ideal to actually occur.
