A couple of stories
about calling it as you see it.
The first was in a video
lecture by Dr. Jordan Peterson. Pointing to a particular vignette in the Hieronymous
Bosch triptych The Garden of Earthly
Delights, Peterson improvised:
“That’s the lion lying down with the lamb. So that’s
this idea that’s maybe projected back in time that there was a time — or
maybe will be a time — when the horrors of life are no longer necessary
for life itself to exist.
And the horrors of life are, of course, that
everything eats everything else and that everything dies and that everything’s
born and that the whole bloody place is a charnel house and it’s a catastrophe
from beginning to end.
This is the vision of it being ... other
than that.”
Boy, you could have
heard a pin drop. He had the attention of everyone in the room.