[debok]

I'm not saying that we don't learn from the mistakes of the past. There were many misplaced wars and crusades in the past, and we should learn from them.

However, the author of the OP article is throwing shade on JBP because he is rehashing old ideas like "tell the truth, be true to yourself, see challenges as opportunities, set a good example." Those won't exactly lead to a crusade, would it? Even if you scale it up, that's some good and true wisdom. The author shows his folly by discarding these "old, stale" ideas for no other reason than them being old, stale ideas.

Also to quote the article:

> He can give people the most elementary fatherly life-advice (clean your room, stand up straight) while making it sound like Wisdom

Yes, because fatherly life-advice is straight-up wisdom. Wisdom is remarkably mundane at times. Also, if you look at these ideas in their abstract:

clean your room -> take care of what you have, even if it is little

stand up straight -> have some self-respect

These abstract ideas also scale up well. That's also not exactly crusade material.

[flir]

> tell the truth, be true to yourself

Who isn't saying this stuff?