03-16-2020, 12:22 AM
It's hinted at in the poem, but there are two very facts there that I think really need to be checked.
First, Jordan Peterson did not get addicted because of the "hostility" against him. No one, not eve his family, has claimed that. He has inspired just as much hostility against his critics as some of his less acute critics have dealt him. A different source:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...24871.html
A severe autoimmune reaction to food, coupled with his wife's terminal illness.
Second, addiction is most definitely *not* an "ideation or ideology rather than a disease". Its physiological effects are just too well-established. Alcohol and opiate withdrawal can very much be fatal if not done carefully -- delirium tremens, for instance, has been acknowledged since before modern medicine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4365688/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full.../add.13512
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-fami...-addiction
Being a psychological issue, treatment is more complicated than the mere "take other drugs" of many other diseases, but it's not something to be simply willed away. Your example even hints at this, since you started getting weaned off the drug only with the help of a medical professional.
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I do hate how some things have a tendency to stick with me even though they so obviously aren't worth it. Either it's a part of me or it's something I've yet to grow out of. In general, I agree with dale's sentiments -- I suppose this was more an opportunity to vent, impersonal meat served on a flaming dish. As a psychologist, I hear the man's alright; as a philosopher, I prefer Eagleton, Benjamin, or the adjacent literary theorists Joseph Campbell and Harold Bloom, largely because these men actually understand the limits of their thought.
Ganga's the personification of the Ganges, but now that you point out how it echoes Mary Jane, I don't quite know what to make of it.
Thanks for the feedback.
First, Jordan Peterson did not get addicted because of the "hostility" against him. No one, not eve his family, has claimed that. He has inspired just as much hostility against his critics as some of his less acute critics have dealt him. A different source:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...24871.html
A severe autoimmune reaction to food, coupled with his wife's terminal illness.
Second, addiction is most definitely *not* an "ideation or ideology rather than a disease". Its physiological effects are just too well-established. Alcohol and opiate withdrawal can very much be fatal if not done carefully -- delirium tremens, for instance, has been acknowledged since before modern medicine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4365688/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full.../add.13512
https://www.psychiatry.org/patients-fami...-addiction
Being a psychological issue, treatment is more complicated than the mere "take other drugs" of many other diseases, but it's not something to be simply willed away. Your example even hints at this, since you started getting weaned off the drug only with the help of a medical professional.
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I do hate how some things have a tendency to stick with me even though they so obviously aren't worth it. Either it's a part of me or it's something I've yet to grow out of. In general, I agree with dale's sentiments -- I suppose this was more an opportunity to vent, impersonal meat served on a flaming dish. As a psychologist, I hear the man's alright; as a philosopher, I prefer Eagleton, Benjamin, or the adjacent literary theorists Joseph Campbell and Harold Bloom, largely because these men actually understand the limits of their thought.
Ganga's the personification of the Ganges, but now that you point out how it echoes Mary Jane, I don't quite know what to make of it.
Thanks for the feedback.