Thing is, clarity is a spectrum. And the ideal level varies both by context and personal opinion.https://twitter.com/unlearningecon/status/998548940848017408 …
What's unclear about it? It's a reference to common symbology in multiple creation myths.
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I don't know. I haven't read/listened to any of that, but the class of argument is familiar.
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that's a diagram that would be presented in the context of a 2 hour long lecture where the entities and relationships expressed graphically would be explained verbally. if you take anything non-obvious out of context then it will seem confusing.
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yes - I too need 2 hours to explain my nonsensical diagrams. Besides, everything he says in here is at this level: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/03/the-intellectual-we-deserve … obviously it is our job to wade through all of the 'context' to get at whatever he's saying
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you're unremittingly hostile (I checked your feed) so it's not really in either of our interests to continue here. If you don't feel like listening to him, that's totally fine, nobody is requiring you too. If you want to criticize though, it makes sense to listen first.
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as a public intellectual he puts things into the public sphere (which I have looked at) and will rightly receive criticism for them, especially when they are nonsensical or even actively harmful. It is his job to convince me it's worth going deeper into his work, but he hasn't
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make better criticisms then. yours is weak and bashing a strawman.
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yes, the straw man of actual quotes and diagrams from Peterson which make no sense
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the diagram is explained. you just admitted that you refuse to listen to the explanation. you desire to criticize a diagram out of its context. that's the definition of a straw man. make better criticisms.
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