That’s Not a Word
or The Importance of Clarity

What do you mean by “What”?
What do you mean by “Do”?
What do you mean by “You”?
What do you mean by “Mean”?
What do you mean by “by”?

Jordan Peterson is a funny guy if you ignore… Quite a few things actually. He’s got this weird rhetorical device that he uses in interviews whe speaks in complicated academic language to sound like he’s so smart you can’t even understand him. If the interviewer tries to repeat what he said in simpler language for the viewing public, he insists you have not grasped the full meaning of his argument and therefore any response you give is wrong by default. Then however (and this the best part) when faced with a simple question in the most basic language which everyone else watching would fully understand he will come back with “But what do you mean by ‘Do’?”

This post is about the magical writing of Ken Muller.

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Antibrand
or Leader of the Opposition

In my last post I mostly provided a lot of background information for the real topic I wanted to get into. In the end explaining the situation was a whole post in and of itself, so the real meat will be here. How to break out of the expectations of cultural hegemony.

For those who still don’t agree that this is something worth doing, there’s a blog post which explains the full reasoning far more succinctly than I ever could by girl on the net. It’s called The Facile Debate About Separating Art From Artist and its an SFW post on a very NSFW website. If you don’t want to read some filthy smut, just read that post and then leave the page. If you do want some filthy smut then you’re welcome I guess.

Anyway this isn’t about whether or not you want to burn down the Hogwarts in your mind. This is about how to actually do it.

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or Leader of the Opposition”