2/ That's from the introduction. Mostly, it prattles on for a while in the style he has slowly crafted into his contemporary brand -- pontificating bullshit that mixes machismo with misdirection and facts not in evidence that he commands you to accept as capital-T Truth.
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3/ The rest of the book is boring as fuck. It's also unoriginal. Which, whatever, that's fine. We need old ideas translated and blended into new forms. Synthesis is great! But, his work isn't that. It's not even good pedagogy.
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4/ It's just a reduction of coherence written by some insufferable, whiny old dudebro to satisfy the resentment he feels as a consequence of wanting to be an Übermensch of psychology and not being one. Is it really a surprise that he filled the vacuum left by Milo Yiannopoulos?
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5/ I hesitated to share this because I don't want to drive attention to him or is shit ideas. Plus, he's just one manifestation of a systemic problem. But, today,
@zeynep took aim at a critical driver of that system. So, reader her article. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html?mtrref=undefined&assetType=opinion …Show this thread
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