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Post by homeschooldad on Mar 1, 2024 16:22:24 GMT
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bluekumul
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Post by bluekumul on Mar 2, 2024 11:29:34 GMT
I always detested his theories. Part of it may be my personality, as I'm more inclined to Romanticism than Stoicism or Scientism. But there is more, for example his silly claims that men represent order and women represent chaos.
His politics definitely seems to represent right-liberal "Old America" as opposed to left-liberal "New America" which started with the beatniks and hippies. As a democratic socialist, I'm not at home in either.
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Post by homeschooldad on Mar 2, 2024 14:53:34 GMT
I always detested his theories. Part of it may be my personality, as I'm more inclined to Romanticism than Stoicism or Scientism. But there is more, for example his silly claims that men represent order and women represent chaos. His politics definitely seems to represent right-liberal "Old America" as opposed to left-liberal "New America" which started with the beatniks and hippies. As a democratic socialist, I'm not at home in either. Dr Peterson would possibly correct you and say "Old North America" (at least the English-speaking part), as he is Canadian. WRT traditional family values, Canada and the US were probably far more similar than different. Canadians typically say "North America" as a way to speak of the US and Canada ( sans Québec) as a single culture and economy; it's fairly uncommon for a USAmerican to use the term "North America" that way. If the British had won the Revolutionary War, Canada and the US would likely be a single country from the Arctic Circle to (arguably) the Rio Grande, possibly called British North America or Columbia; like Australia or New Zealand, they'd have to call it something. That would be one amazing and very powerful country (and likely Québec would have retained its distinct culture, legal system, and so on, just as it does now). He's politically incorrect and invites a wide range of opinions on his writings, but he is one of the few relatively famous public intellectuals in North America. Unlike France, this isn't a culture that fosters or deeply appreciates public intellectuals. We're too busy slobbering all over Taylor Swift and the Kardashians. (But to give Kim her due, her father was a prominent attorney, and she is studying to be an attorney herself, albeit in a nontraditional program that provides a route to the California bar exam. She's far from being an airhead. More importantly, God bless her, she was baptized a few years ago into the Armenian Apostolic Church, and is arguably the most well-known Orthodox Christian in the United States.)
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bluekumul
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Post by bluekumul on Mar 2, 2024 17:33:03 GMT
Dr Peterson would possibly correct you and say "Old North America" (at least the English-speaking part), as he is Canadian. WRT traditional family values, Canada and the US were probably far more similar than different. Canadians typically say "North America" as a way to speak of the US and Canada ( sans Québec) as a single culture and economy; it's fairly uncommon for a USAmerican to use the term "North America" that way. The nuclear family was more important in settler societies like North America or Australia than in Europe or the Middle East, which had centuries-old local communities bound by kinship ties.
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Post by homeschooldad on Mar 2, 2024 17:38:54 GMT
Dr Peterson would possibly correct you and say "Old North America" (at least the English-speaking part), as he is Canadian. WRT traditional family values, Canada and the US were probably far more similar than different. Canadians typically say "North America" as a way to speak of the US and Canada ( sans Québec) as a single culture and economy; it's fairly uncommon for a USAmerican to use the term "North America" that way. The nuclear family was more important in settler societies like North America or Australia than in Europe or the Middle East, which had centuries-old local communities bound by kinship ties. Very true. I didn't think of that angle. Good observation.
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