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>but as a provoker of attention/reflection. Smart business choice, this is how you capitalize on ambiguity. Sarcasm as a business model.
by rhizome 7y ago
>but as a provoker of attention/reflection.
Smart business choice, this is how you capitalize on ambiguity. Sarcasm as a business model.
- friendlybus 7y agoIs that your model? Because Peterson is cited and sourced.
- wwweston 7y agoHeh. It’s true and I think Peterson is guilty of not only taking advantage of the attention provocation brings but cultivating it to some extent. But I did have something more specific in mind that I didn’t articulate well: I think he’s successful at provoking attention to some genuinely helpful philosophical questions... and at least calling attention to a segment of knowledge from psych/neuroscience and then to some extent literature and mythology that are relevant to the questions. I can see why the provoke part sometimes overwhelms the rest and limits his audience, he is not without sin, but I think he’s doing more than trading in ambiguous deepities. YMMV, it’s possible someone better educated in those fields can point to something better.