The controversial Canadian psychologist has adopted a more grandiose air as he battles a medical board that wants him to post more professionally
Arguably the only thing stranger than Peterson lecturing MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan about his own skin color was that he elected to do so in verse. And Leidner sees an surprising reversal in concluding with “As far as I’m concerned,” a somewhat limp phrase given the heated argument about race science. “The sardonic politeness of the final line masks an unvarnished subjectivity that undercuts the thundering certainty the speaker has spent the poem building up,” Leidner says.
As for Peterson’s definition of a woman, Leidner notes that “‘A woman is the creature’ is one of [Peterson’s] few examples of enjambment,” or the cutting off of a line before its natural endpoint. And, while subtle, “it effectively generates tension about where this poem might go,” he says. “Compare the effect it has to the same words, in the same order, in prose: ‘A woman is the creature without whom a man cannot reproduce.’ The once intriguing opening has been stripped of tension.
All in all, then, it would appear that Peterson has hit upon a reliable trick for snaring and sustaining engagement. Writing poetry makes his tweets stand out visually on the timeline, where they also take up more vertical space than ordinary prose would. On top of that, the redistributed weight of individual words invites deeper consideration — despite the predictable shallowness of what Peterson is usually saying.
Where it comes to the rhythm and import of the poetry itself, though, Peterson has a long way to go, struggling as he does to break from the tedious repetition of tenets shared by most reactionary culture warriors: gender transition is evil, Disney movies are Marxist, I’m being censored, etc. Without complicating or expanding beyond such obsessions, it’s unlikely he will ever reach artistic maturity, whatever disjointed form his tweets may take.
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