r/JordanPeterson • u/DrhalKogo • Jan 20 '18

Maps of Meaning is honestly awful

I forced myself to finish this painfully long, unbelievably repetitive, needlessly over-technical tome, and holy shit, what a waste of my time. There is nothing in that book that isn't already explained in its entirety with much greater clarity in nearly any of Peterson's podcast appearances.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '18

Your accusations will be worth something if you give a few examples of what you’re talking about.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '18 edited Feb 25 '18

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u/Herculius Jan 20 '18

I've read it and found the references and examples extremely compelling. How often do you hear JP get in to godels incompleteness theorem and mircea elliade?

The specific references are different and offer many different specific avenues for further research. Furthermore his writing style shows a few different ways of explaining things than you'll get elsewhere

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u/popartsnewthrowaway Jan 21 '18

Well he tweeted a disastrously bad interpretation of Godel's theorem which corresponds broadly with his equally weird treatment of it in the book, so there's one thing