Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Not quite religion, not quite self-help: welcome to the Jordan Peterson age of nonsense
"Critics agree the writing is nigh on unintelligible. But the source of its success, I think, is that, like Peterson's previous works, it comes up with a set of spiritual "rules for living", which, in this case, he claims to find encoded in various religious texts. The tone, too, may be part of the appeal: it is grandiose, high-flown and at times near-hysterical, but also mesmerising in the manner of an evangelical preacher, whipping his audience into a spiritual frenzy..."
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