Ogdred Weary
ᛟᛒᛊᛏᛁᚾᚨᛏᛖ ᚲᛁᛗᚱᛁᚲ
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Those who disagree with him have probably never read any of his books and may not even know why they disagree with him.
AFAIK, it's just a self-help book like the first one. It probably contains a lot of good advice (and maybe some that can be argued about).
Many of those who agree with him have probably never read any of his (two) books and may not know why they agree with him.
Like many of of those that disagree with him they have likely watched some youtube videos, some or all of which may be short clip shows or two minute chunks out of context. In my experience most people seldom engage in much depth with anything unless they have too.
The book prior to the new one is a self help book, of sorts. I read the intro and one chapter and found it overwritten, obtuse and obsessed with arcana from the Bible and some other mythologies. I have a greater verbal acuity than most and with parallel literary comprehension and I found it a slog, so God knows what, if anything, others are making of it. I'm interested in mythology but didn't find it especially enlightening and th ebulk of the chapter didn't seem relate much to the chapter title, one of the "12 Rules". Like many other books it's probably far more widely bought than read and I dare say more widely read than understood.
The cult around Peterson is worrying, he's a "divisive" figure, which nowadays means "he upsets the people who I don't like" which I think is much of the appeal to some people. This is not a new thing, it's just something that is becoming ever more shrill and hysterical, on all sides.
I'm not saying he doesn't have anything of value to say but he's not the Messiah.