Re:Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems fro...
by wpietri on Friday June 25, 2021 @11:21PM
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I agree that somebody who wants to misinterpret something can certainly manage if they try. But I disagree that's what most people do with it. I've talked with literally dozens of people about the book. You're the only one so far who has been unable to apply it carefully and usefully.
Re:Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems fro...
by faeriechangling on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:03PM
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What's not to like about a book that can frame anybody you dislike as an abuser beyond rehabilitation and yourself as a hapless victim? It's a book for the times!
I prefer Machiavelli's work because at least that framed the reader as being no better than anybody else. This is Machiavelli with a victim complex. My issue with the book isn't misunderstanding it's disgust at the black and white ethics.
Re:Disproportionate amount of bad online behaviour stems fro...
by wpietri on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:37AM
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Gosh, it's weird that some people see abuse as bad and want to end it. How very black and white of them. If they keep on like that, they might oppose all sorts of harm to people. Quelle horreur!
The weirder part to me is the number of people who end up caping for abusers and abuse. Usually they're more subtle than you, though.
You can interpret the book as to deeming virtually anybody you think as either meeting or not meeting the criteria similar to a horoscope. The star signs being "Mr. Right" or "Mr. Sensitive" and "Drill Sargent" etc etc.
I could very trivially make the case that the author very clearly meets his own "Mr. Right" stereotype and thus is an abuser. He considers himself an authority on mental illness and substance abuse with no relevant training, sees the world as a huge classroom, he twists others statements to make them sound absurd, he switches to his voice of truth and speaks definitively, he seems to enjoy straightening out people in front of others to the point of remarking on constant conversations where he outwitted various men, and he says bad things about men to other people.
In fact by disagreeing with me you're a little "Mr. Right". I'm also "Mr. Right". None of us can ever be rehabilitated and all of us just need to be escaped from. We're all doing this because we think we can get away with it.