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I love deBoers writing when it's about _something_, but the navel-gazing gets old really quick. Yikes! If he truly feels sorry, he just needs to move on. He se
by trgn 5y ago
I love deBoers writing when it's about _something_, but the navel-gazing gets old really quick. Yikes!
If he truly feels sorry, he just needs to move on. He seems to understand what he did was foul. Well then, move forward, be a good man to all the new people in your life. Instead, he craves absolution (and, reading between the lines, acceptance). No human being can be cajoled into extending that. It's truly foolish to expect people can be argued into extending that.
In fact, what he really needs to do, is that he himself needs to forgive the people being mean to him, who have rejected him. When he can do that, only then he can free himself from this burden.
Good luck Freddie!
- gopher_space 5y agoCan you hit me up with your favorite examples? I'm just hearing about the guy now and the first article of his that I found was kind of a pseudosciencey wall-o-text that I won't be finishing.
- AlanYx 5y agoHe's pretty passionate about education policy; this article is one of his better ones on that topic, IMHO: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-arent-actually-mad-at-the-sats https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/you-arent-actually-mad-... The discussion of Robertson et. al.'s 2010 paper is worth reading the article just for that. But it's true that his writing seems to drift between extremes -- some sober, well-researched and very interesting, and others almost as if a different person was writing it.
- gopher_space 5y ago> But it's true that his writing seems to drift between extremes -- some sober, well-researched and very interesting, and others almost as if a different person was writing it. The article you linked is bizarre. He's actually arguing against himself in places. Interesting, and thanks for the link.