I Won't Mock The Owl. I Will Show You What She Wrote.

 Confession.  Time spent on the lazy thinking this retired con law prof uses, every day of her life, seemingly, is a distraction from politics.  And starting months ago.  I started cutting down.  As a related matter. Based on my years on this rock, I believe political reporting and commentary is at a low point. Lazy thinking is everywhere, seems.  We can blame the interwebnetubes.  But many people with experience and training in the right disciplines say and agree.  Humans be like that.  Anyway . . .

"Tell me about an "interpretative system" that is better than Jordan Peterson's "whim." He's one man, interpreting things. If my "job" is to "sit still" and take in his ideas, how is that different from reading any book? The author isn't here with me, the reader, to be "argued with." But I buy the Kindle version and excerpt any passage I want to pick apart, and I do my own writing here on this blog, which you are sitting still and reading. If you are "overtaken with apathy," you stop reading. If you want to argue, you go into the comments section. If it's just too much interpretation, coming at you endlessly, take a break. Nobody said you had to read this all at once. I heard that Elon Musk read the entire Encyclopedia Brittanica when he was 9 years old. That's unusual, and it's not what the encyclopedia writers had in mind."

She wrote and published that.  And could not tell it was not terribly coherent?

And if only to be more coherent myself.  This is from her blogged "review"  of some real writer's review of Jordan Peterson's newest trash output.  For those of you who don't know about that guy.  He is the Canadian ex Psychology professor, who got fired over some refusal to use preferred pronouns, some idiotic "principled" in his disordered mind, stand.  And he quickly became a darling of the worldwide, right wing conservative idiot's circle.  And he had a physical and mental breakdown from "the road' and or other reasons.  

And once recovered?  I say questioningly. He went back to telling other people how they should live their lives, seemingly oblivious to his own failure to get, have, and keep his own shit together.

Anyway.  The real reviewer was making the the overall and some specific points about how incoherent the book is.

Personally, I never found the guy to be at all coherent except when plagiarizing, and not fucking up the bits he plagiarizes.  And as a fan of Jungian Analysis, and the work of the late, great Joseph Campbell.  Based on this review, I can say Peterson is at least greatly borrowing from those guys.  And likely fucking up the bits he plagiarizes.

Anyway.  There is your context.  Now for the critical observation about the Owl's lazy childish thinking.  And I think she is sort of sympathetic regarding Peterson.  And it that is true that could be a factor why, when viewed as a chunk.  Her point of view and message seems to boil down to:

How dare you review his book, while reviewing his book?

Before I "Unpack" her Childish Reasoning. The Tale of the Mugato Expert.

 "Star Trek Lower Decks," is by far my favorite "TV" show.  I have, for all intents and purposes, been a Trek fan all my damn life.  And STLD is a irreverent, but loving animated comedy, in the realm of that franchise.

Moving to the point.  In one episode, a couple lower ranking officers of the ship, are running in fear from these scary alien creatures;  Mugatos.  And they encounter a self described Mugato expert who has two books on Mugatos.   But before long, they learn this "expert" only has, as in bought and read two books.  He did not research or write them.

He gets mauled, destroyed by a Mugato.  Surely, greatly, due to his not really being an expert in them, really.  But of course, that was the joke!

On to the Owl.  Who clearly was not joking.  On her blog today, she platformed some article dealing with, "The obesity crisis."  But her headline is:

"Why doesn't this article even mention RFK jr?"

Um.  Because it isn't about him?  

Because he isn't in the health related appointment yet?

And my favorite reason.  He isn't an expert on any health related issue or field.  Actually.

Let us review his credentials, and lack thereof.  He once was considered one of the most successful environmental law litigators.  And that doesn't even make him an expert on environmental science.  Never mind any other field of science.

If you would think a lawyer should know that is an objective fact?  The Owl is happy to fail to meet that minimal level of understanding about the world and the people in it.  I would say, at least a sixth grader should be that bright, to get that much!

No No Fuck No! Owl!

 

I don't fucking want "exciting" people in charge of the government, and the lives and well being of not only Americans.  But in recognition of the possible zone of danger?  Let's put the risk at globally. 

I want competent, intelligent, experienced leaders in the specific field to lead government departments, agencies, and as presidential advisors. 

I don't look to government for excitement.  We have an entertainment industry for that.  And sports.  Some people think there is a walk between the two.  I really don't.  That Venn Diagram has a lot of overlap. 

Day Before The Election

 Fuck white supremacy. 

Fuck maga.

Fuck what ever is the GOP, these days.  It might not be same bag of shit it was back when Reagan was the leader.  But it is far worse and more obviously is committed to hate, than it was in the past.  And in the past Archie Bunker was the poster boy for the working class extreme.  And these days, it seems that the Archie Bunker types run the party.  

And that is a very bad thing.

Vote early, and vote Democrat!