Peterson's 12 Rules for Life v2.0-- actual book discussion

[Rev. Rye]

To be fair, at first glance, enforced monogamy seems to be a decent hypothesis. Unfortunately, when you look into it, it falls apart like a gold leaf being touched by anything more substantive than the static electricity of a squirrel hair brush.

He later reveals that what he meant by "enforced manogamy" is "our society encouraging manogamy", and that people have misunderstood him. It's pretty clear to me he was deliberately trying to be misunderstood to generate outrage, so that he could then back pedal to a more reasonable stance and play the victim. For a man who apparently chooses his words well, those are some awfully loaded ones. He's playing both sides as usual.

From what I've seen of Peterson, that's pretty much his main schtick: say something provocative that it'll "trigger the libs", but innocuous enough that he has plausible deniability, and when they react, he'll say "I didn't say that" and accuse the other person of deliberately taking what he said out of context.