Ernie: During our most recent conversation I mentioned that back in early 2016
I "discovered" Jordan Peterson on YouTube. I took notes on several of his talks; very impressed by the man. He spoke earlier this year here in Oregon and his lecture, an hour or so, has been rebroadcast a number of times on CTV. Basically I think that Peterson and myself are on the same page, not about everything, but many things. He is sort of a non-Centroids Radical Centrist. It would be nice if I could get something of that kind of recognition, not only for myself, but for the sake of the group, but nobody is interested. This is ridiculous. I think it is safe to say that, whatever flaws I may have, I am a "talent." This could have real value to Centroids -but nobody is about to accuse the group of being opportunistic in making the most of the people it has. Dr Cameron commented that he thought my new essay was important and thanked me for sending it to him. Dr Ernie looked at it and thought that is was a curiosity with no further relevance to anything and passed it along to nobody because, you see, he has a 10 year plan and if something comes along before that 10 years is up, it does not count, Sorry if I sound bitter but this is how I feel about things. Whatever I write, no matter how important it potentially is, gets ignored. Just about everything. Why? I'd be curious to read your rationalizations which, I think would be the case, would focus on why nothing I say can possibly be important because, when all is said, there are no obvious ways to make money from my stuff. This is also how it seems. I'm not interested in more "lift yourself up by your bootstraps" preachments. There are some things I do not know how to do and could use some actual help in doing. But that is not about to happen at Centroids and it is obvious. All I can say is that if the shoe is ever on the other foot, my full intention is to see to it that Ernie gets full recognition for his ideas, that Chris's real talent as a psychology professional is recognized, that Mike's ideas are made the best possible use of in a professional capacity. My whole theory is that a good "manager" rewards "talents" and gives them as many opportunities as possible to make a difference in the world. This is not your philosophy at all -as far as I can tell. Which is? "Every man for himself, sink or swim." For now maybe you can say it is easy to talk, and talk is cheap. All that I can say in response is that when I did have actual resources to work with I have already done what I am saying I would like to do for this group. I organized conferences, people with talent were recruited for these meetings and had a platform to present their ideas. They received such recognition as I could give them. Including contacts with other professionals to take things further if they so desired, which also is not how you do things. OK, I have learned to live with things as they are. And you have other and very real virtues. I stay with the group and try to make the best of it. It has been 14 years now. But for me one impossible-to-argue-with fact is that opportunities were never there for me when there could have been real world opportunities and, just as clearly, opportunities you could have had by making the most of the talent in our little group, were thrown away because you have a 10 year plan and it does not feature lifting anyone else's boat except your boat. Is this unfair? It certainly is to some extent; things are not so black and white. And you are one of the most decent and well-meaning people I know. Yet you repeatedly say, in so many words, "that's a good idea, here is why I don't intend to actually do anything at all about it." One excuse after another, year after year. I shrug my shoulders and say to myself, "its hopeless, he will never learn what is most basic, that a good team is far better than every-man-for-himself. And he will never learn that to get a good team requires valuing the creation of an actual team which works towards common goals." This just is not how you think. This is how things seem, again and again. Billy ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Centroids <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 7:41 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Billy Rojas Subject: Jordan Peterson Re: [RC] Religion and Political Thought: The importance of John Locke Have you been following the rise of Jordan Peterson? He’s become a pop culture phenom on the Right. Not a Christian, but cites scripture quite a lot, if perhaps not the same way you do. Sent from my iPhone On Sep 26, 2018, at 22:51, Billy Rojas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: But we can work with principles from the Bible in the public arena if we focus on real world truths that we may derive from the Judeo-Christian scriptures, truths borne out by findings of empirical psychologists, by empirical historians, by honest-to-the-facts biographers, by at least some anthropologists, and still others. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. 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