Why the truth is not in them ??

I watched his whole series on the Bible stories https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-wWBGo6a2w  together with hours and hours of his classroom lectures, debates, and interviews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54  and read his 12 Rules for Life https://www.amazon.com/12-Rules-Life-Antidote-Chaos/dp/0345816021 and read a few excerpts from Maps of Meaning, but have not felt quite up to tackling that one. Yet. 

brownsfan- @millercarbon, I hope you did not mistake my comment as having been directed at you.   It wasn't!

Yes, I see that now. Appreciate your setting me straight on that.
Thanks!
                   

mahgister, You read Maps of Meaning?? Respect!

mahgister, it helps to keep in mind a lot of the criticism is coming from people with a tenuous connection with reality. Like my post, there's zero personal attacks in it yet two guys make stuff up about it, attack me personally, and one even ignores actual ad hominems directed at me and accuses me of being the one resorting to ad hominems. Unreal.

If that's how ill-equipped they are to understand clear concise prose imagine how they must struggle with your ideas. Poetry is beautiful because of the complex of inexpressible feelings and ideas it digs up. But to get complex and hard to express ideas it helps to be capable of having ideas and thinking about things. This rules them out, and so of course they get frustrated.

Most of what we're doing is frankly beyond them. Might be literally truly beyond them, as in no matter what they never will get it. Or might be beyond them merely by virtue of being too physically or mentally lazy to get up off the comfortable couch and try. Either way they're not getting it.

So don't let them get to you. To do what we do takes imagination, creativity, intelligence, and perseverance. It takes initiative. Qualities they lack. You are Michael Jordan, effortlessly performing layups. Don't be surprised or get upset when they start talking trash. Talk is all they have. Let em have their fun. We have our music. But who knows, trashing others may be the one thing that gives their lives meaning.

Yes of course it is a poor way to deal with people. Jordan Peterson gives a very compelling talk about how the greatest most productive asset a nation, people or economy can have is trust. Look around the world, its plain to see the places where people have the highest degree of trust are also the places with the greatest standards of living. 

Unfortunately the guiding principle of today is nihilism. Its essential to the advance of Marxism that the people have no real standard of right and wrong. Among other things. So look around, we are surrounded by nihilists. Until this changes things will continue to go downhill.