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Review: Feline Philosophy

By John Gray (2020)

So, this continues my frustrating relationship with John Gray, where I can appreciate he’s a good writer (crisp, clear, readable etc) but his basic positions seem … unfounded to me. And he doesn’t seem particularly interested in arguing for them, but just leans on the fact they’re unpopular to make them “unpalatable truths”, or something.

I tend to think blank statements like “the source of philosophy is anxiety” (what, all of it?) is more likely to be glibness than profundity.

A bigger problem – he is remarkably inaccurate about cats.There’s a long section about how cats never get bored unless they’re in a totally unnatural environment. He’s clearly never had a kitten left alone…