03-14-2020, 12:05 PM
On addiction: not a dragon to be slain because it's a disease to be treated. Even cancer isn't a dragon to be slain because often times it ends up coming back -- the dragon part has less to do with heroics than it does with how it devastates all. If anything, it's a spectre, but metaphors aside, the point is the effective (ie, both not-dangerous and no-relapse) cure for it isn't so much big gestures as getting weaned slowly off the drug, which goes against the message typically peddled by Peterson, or at least it's the opposite of what is conjectured to be the case (he tried getting off the drug cold turkey) or what is said by his family to be the case ("experimental drug treatment"). Perhaps it's not mundane, but it sure as heck ain't myth.
I'll hold off on responses to more direct feedback for later.
I'll hold off on responses to more direct feedback for later.