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3.38 AVERAGE
3.38 AVERAGE
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Pretty good, not much nonsense and probably very effective for people as a whole.
Only got part of the way through. He’s verbose and very impressed with his own intelligence.
DNF at page 203. Not my cup of tea.
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there’s a reason why peterson’s not on a single curriculum in any sound humanities programme anywhere in the world (except to critique and be torn apart, I presume), and it’s because this book just genuinely insults the reader’s intelligence with its lack of data or argumentative rigour by misrepresentation and omission and just has a hostile and aggressive anti-intellectualism. also peterson is an practicing and freudian clinician, which… I don’t even know what to say to that. he also has a pathological hatred of children, and compares using corporal punishment on children and toddlers to using self defense on someone trying to hurt you (a literal child??? a quarter of your size?). I really don’t think peterson should be let anywhere near women or children.
anyway, if you enjoyed this, please read the protestant work ethic, and please read some of the french thinkers (feminists, post-structuralists) that he hates and misrepresents. peterson’s writing pales in comparison and he becomes like a baby in a mobile in his crudeness, angry fist waving and confounding leaps in logic.
There are also parts of this where Peterson tries to do exegeses on Bible chapters, and he’s just like… really bad at reading and doesn’t actually engage any actual scholarship done on the Bible. He’s just a bad reader overall and lacks any kind of critical faculty (the worse and more possible option being, of course, that he knows perfectly well what he’s doing and is deliberately misleading other people).
anyway, if you enjoyed this, please read the protestant work ethic, and please read some of the french thinkers (feminists, post-structuralists) that he hates and misrepresents. peterson’s writing pales in comparison and he becomes like a baby in a mobile in his crudeness, angry fist waving and confounding leaps in logic.
There are also parts of this where Peterson tries to do exegeses on Bible chapters, and he’s just like… really bad at reading and doesn’t actually engage any actual scholarship done on the Bible. He’s just a bad reader overall and lacks any kind of critical faculty (the worse and more possible option being, of course, that he knows perfectly well what he’s doing and is deliberately misleading other people).
I realize this guy is controversial, but this was actually a pretty good book. Unfortunately, it was twice as long as it needed to be, which is ironic because one of his rules is to "Be Precise." I'd say 90% is pretty reasonable and relatable. The other 10% clearly is enough to launch any mildly woke person into the stratosphere.