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riskwalla 's review for:
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
by Jordan B. Peterson
I initially heard Jordan B Peterson on a podcast (Art of Manliness) and thoroughly enjoyed his perspectives at the time on masculinity, work ethic, and religion. Unfortunately, after painstakingly reading over 350 pages I began to dislike his thoughts more and more with each step. What do I have against this brilliant self-help therapist? For one, I believe he’s intellectually dishonest. Something I’ve seen with certain western writers do in projecting the a dominance of white make superiority blatantly by only quoting or referencing thoughts that serve his point. Take for example Peterson’s deliberate attempt to not quote anything from Islamic sources on the creation story (yet everything else is quoted if it supports his view).
I think what bothered me most about his world view as he presents it, is this idea that women and minorities are in the state they are in due to their own actions. This excuses years of genocide on natives, slavery, Jim Crow laws, and continuing misogynist sexism. Lastly, he makes every problem with the human condition the result of socialism, to the point where his examples are laughable.
For some, this book will reinforce and validate their ego and world view, but only if that some is of a certain gender, race, and economic status. I’d donate this book but don’t want to promote such garbage.
I think what bothered me most about his world view as he presents it, is this idea that women and minorities are in the state they are in due to their own actions. This excuses years of genocide on natives, slavery, Jim Crow laws, and continuing misogynist sexism. Lastly, he makes every problem with the human condition the result of socialism, to the point where his examples are laughable.
For some, this book will reinforce and validate their ego and world view, but only if that some is of a certain gender, race, and economic status. I’d donate this book but don’t want to promote such garbage.