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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