I think I’ve spent enough time on his writings for now. The beauty of the examples I chose from his writings is that they stand on their…
I can only assure you that the article wasn’t written with any anger in mind. The goal was to answer questions that have been repeatedly put to me about this topic, and to help explain the difference between these writings and the Stoic and cognitive model of anger. If you perceive anger, without any actual evidence of it, perhaps that’s a reflection of your own presuppositions about critics of Jordan Peterson, i.e., something you brought with you to the article rather than something that’s actually in it.
I think I’ve spent enough time on his writings for now. The beauty of the examples I chose from his writings is that they stand on their own. If you think some “deeper meaning” would change the significance of the main quotes I took from him then by all means explain how that could be the case and I’ll give it my attention and respond. As far as I can see, though, that would be virtually impossible because the main parts of his writing that I’m interested in responding to actually appear fairly straightforward and unambiguous — that’s why I picked them for this article, precisely so that people wouldn’t just complain that they mean something else in another context, etc. So I invite you to explain, if you can, how the meaning of the key quotes could potentially be interpreted differently in a way that actually changes the objections raised against them in this article. Thanks.