/lit/ - Literature

which preparatory readings should I do before getting into peterson's maps of meaning: architecture of belief? some anon suggested that without a very detailed knowledge of jung's oeuvre, campbell's hero's journey and some familiarity with analytic philosophy i won't be able to fully grasp the depth of peterson's work. any advice?

which preparatory readings should I do before getting into peterson's maps of meaning: architecture of belief? some anon suggested that without a very detailed knowledge of jung's oeuvre, campbell's hero's journey and some familiarity with analytic philosophy i won't be able to fully grasp the depth of peterson's work. any advice?

>leave being right about everything and saving Western Civilization's father to me

one last one. relatively simple choice:

do you prefer the peterson door: that is, you have a *choice* - a long series of choices, in fact - whether or not to clean your room
>which is, once you clear the dust away, quite possibly a palace

or do you prefer the lycurgus door: the room is *already* clean and stays clean, now and forever. here's your broom. get sweeping
>b/c your room is like all the others in the polis, and what a polis it be

wat do? don't answer this, it's obviously a trick question. the point is that you have two conflicting and overlapping notions of the concept of freedom & responsibility that are never going to line up perfectly for exactitude in science. which is why neuroticism is a bad look for politics, and why theological politics (Kafka, Freud, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky) are a problem for the psyche and tended to fuck up the existentialists. among others.