An ABC of Childhood Tragedy: Volume 1

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Each verse has a simple rhyme pattern and uses lots of alliteration. Many of the rhymes don't really work. Like he rhymes "own/groaned" "them/men". Some nice word choices with the alliterations to demonstrate a large vocabulary. Let's put aside the fact that this poem is about an ugly child. Again, this could be the topic of a good work of literature. I'm more concerned about its utter meaninglesness. Is there a story here? Where is even the tragedy that was promised to us? Did anything happened to Katie or this is just Jordan Peterson being mean? On the formal level, notice the easy rhymes, clumsy structure, unimaginative word choice... Yes, this poem is just bad. Most of the poems in this book are just like this one, but some of them are more uncomfortable, given the topics they deal with. I don't think they are funny, and I certainly think they aren't deep. In the promotional video for this book, Peterson says that his goal was to "investigate the nexus between beauty and tragedy and humor". He makes equivalent claims about his other, more serious books. I believe it's some kind of defense mechanism: if you think the book is not good, then it means you didn't understand it, because you are not smart enough to find "the nexus between beauty and tragedy and humor".

The subject matter itself is vile, homophobic, misogynistic and incredibly offensive. He describes this work as something he wrote to 'let off steam' while working with patients who were suffering as the result of these particular traumas which feels incredibly disrespectful. This book is not so much a collection of poems as promised in its description, but rather a single poem with 26 unrelated stanzas about dark, troubled, or disturbing children’s lives whose names align with the alphabet. I'm really hoping none of this is lifted from real life kids, but at times it's too close for comfort. The real horror here, is that the description to sell the book is longer and more thought out than the “book” itself. More haunting still is the realization that, though of course the cases are fictionalized and rendered in poetic form, they're inspired by Peterson's decades of clinical work. The individual children depicted may never have existed (at least under the names they're given in the book), but at the very least they represent an amalgamation of the horrors Peterson has witnessed throughout his career, and that fact alone ought to justify a study of this book.

And if you can look past the very shallow conservative politics and unfunny writing, the actual poetry itself is atrocious. To give you an example of how thought out this was, at one point he tries to rhyme wonton with flaunting, in a short story about a mother pushing her daughter towards her passions. But the rhyming and meter of it is way off. If you try to read these out loud, you will struggle a bit trying to figure out what even pacing and rhythm this was supposed to have. This alphabetical collection of four sentence rhymes revels in the torture of children with no purpose or payoff. The author-- a licensed psychologist from clown college-- clearly has a disdain for his patients, particularly youths, and secretly practices on the belief that they deserve the abuse they have endured. Peterson is a narcissist with aspirations of eugenics. Jordan and Mikhaila Peterson - Our Carnivore Diet : How to Cure Depression and Disease with Meat Only: Revised Transcripts and Blogposts. Featuring Dr. Shawn Baker This may be one of the worst books I've ever read. It's soulless and poorly written by someone with seemingly no knowledge of nor passion for poetry; the rhyme scheme is far too inconsistent for what is supposed to be a coherent collection, there is no attempt at properly utilising meter and rhythm, other than some sporadic and poor attempts at alliteration no real poetic techniques are used.

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Constance Garnett (translator), Helen Zimmern, Jordan B. Peterson, and Leon Trost For real. At least 3 of the poems are about children being sexually assaulted and for why? Because the parents had non-traditional values. That’s it. There’s no deeper message. There’s no “poetry about injustice and depth of humanity.” For an author who claims to be a counseling psychologist, the concept of trauma is poorly handled here. Which gives further credence as to why this person shut down their counseling practice and was let go of their professor job. The point I believe, is that awful things happen, and Dr. Peterson has seen it. He is known to wax positively on Piaget, but where Piaget ends, things happen - and well - Let's create a hypothetical scenario where you and your spouse are shopping for child-safe content. We're going with a male / female coupling because statistically speaking if you are on the LGBTQ+ spectrum or a single parent of any kind you will probably dismiss the book outright. These are quite literally stereotypical tropes as stories. Then justifying it as abuse towards children.Peterson has the gall to compare his work to the likes of Edward Gorey and Neil Gaiman but that is an absolute insult to their creative genius and consistent hard work.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra with Jordan B Peterson Lecture Foreword: Friedrich Nietzsche Thus Spoke Zarathustra English TranslationJordan B. Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, self-help writer, cultural critic and professor of psychology at the University of Toronto. His main areas of study are in abnormal, social, and personality psychology, with a particular interest in the psychology of religious and ideological belief, and the assessment and improvement of personality and performance. It promises to be as dark as grim fairy tales, but at least those had a story. Those had a message. This is so very obvious pandering. Our Whole Gwich'in Way of Life Has Changed / Gwich'in K'yuu Gwiidandài' Tthak Ejuk Gòonlih: Stories from the People of the Land This isn't necessarily what readers have come to expect from Jordan Peterson's work. His prior books include a deep (and admittedly fairly dry) academic text on mythology and belief structures and two works that fit within (even as they rise above) the self-help genre. This is something entirely different: a short collection of twenty-six brief poems, each of which is accompanied by an illustration by Juliette Fogra. Peterson grew up in Fairview, Alberta. He earned a B.A. degree in political science in 1982 and a degree in psychology in 1984, both from the University of Alberta, and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from McGill University in 1991. He remained at McGill as a post-doctoral fellow for two years before moving to Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant and an associate professor in the psychology department at Harvard University. In 1998, he moved to the University of Toronto as a full professor. He authored Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief in 1999, a work in which examined several academic fields to describe the structure of systems of beliefs and myths, their role in the regulation of emotion, creation of meaning, and motivation for genocide.