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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Question: Have you read the book?
I actually have, and, there is nothing in it that puts it above any other self-help guide, aside from it’s specific audience (which is a rare focus). I don’t see how it’s arrogant, I’m not the first person to think so and I’m unlikely the last. Lots of self-help guides make a difference in people’s lives, what gives you the right to place the difference Peterson makes to young men above any other basic self-help guide makes to anyone else?
I’m aware of who he is, and I’m aware of how he put himself in the spotlight very particularly.
As I said, I find it very fascinating how people (your post is a good example) just sort of... embrace it, because he’s speaking to an audience who isn’t normally spoken to. It’s rarely concrete examples of what is so astounding about it, it’s things like “He’s a clinical psychologist, so it MUST be good”... or “People say it helped them! So it MUST be more than basic!” and, weirdly, this seems to be from people who haven’t even read the thing.
Not everything he says is gold, he makes some interesting points, and, I think, is good at making people think of things in a different way. But it’s just strange watching him gather this cult-like status, people just blindly defending anything and everything, sight unseen, and throwing their money towards him.
Among all the help he provides are some basic, sometimes stupid or funny, sometimes just socially conservative ideas backed up by... religion, a lot of the time. So I guess that’s fine if that’s what you’re happy with.
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I think a big reason he is become so popular has a lot to do with timing. Bill C-16 played a major role in putting him into the spotlight, and given the reaction many Canadians and people across the world have had probably speaks a lot to the frustration across the 'post secondary' world in regards to how our kids are being taught.
There are many 'other' views right now in the world that he speaks about that have possibly come to a breaking point and people are just so frustrated with what has been happening for 30-40 years with political and social tendencies that they are taking what he is saying and firmly latching onto it.
The whole pronoun deal doesn't apply to me. I've never even given it a second thought until I came across his interviews and videos. Now I see how incredibly stupid and short-sighted the legislative part of the whole thing is, and I think a lot of other everyday Canadians feel the same way which along with the whole Kinder Morgan deal goes to show how completely out of touch 'government' and 'politicians' are with everyday Canadians.