Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readMay 8, 2023

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Great read, Douglas. My many highlights do not speak to me having any familiarity with this Baggini but rather I just loved your voice and commentary in this piece. I happened to read a great takedown of Peterson a couple of hours ago for his lack of critical thinking and his confirmation bias, written by Emily Pothast, a clearly well educated and well read PhD student. https://medium.com/form-and-resonance/jordan-petersons-credulity-is-a-teaching-moment-770b70df1486 In one of the comment threads I found this gem that I can see may also apply to this Bag-of-eeny thoughts: "There was an old joke in Soviet times that there was no Pravda (truth) in Izvestia (news) and no Izvestia in Pravda - for those too old to remember, they were the two newspapers in Russia. Peterson is a bit like that, what is true and worthwhile is not original and what is original is not true."

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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