![]() Peterson's West is much less churched-increasingly, to use an insipid but not insignificant formula, "spiritual but not religious." Cultural literacy has changed and deteriorated we share fewer touchstones, and one seems more likely to be understood through reference to Harry Potter than to the Bible. In his new book 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote To Chaos the clinical psychologist has fully embraced that role, and is looking to broaden his audience beyond the disciples he has curated on YouTube and social media.Ĭircumstances and the audience living in them have changed since Lewis died in 1963. As youths today, particularly young men, find themselves wandering or, more often, stuck in the wreckage of the ideas and trends Lewis warned against, they are finding in Peterson a guide to their perplexity and answers to questions they had not quite articulated themselves. More than half a century on, he seeks to answer many of the same questions with like pastoral care, and his influence and audience, while not now as general as Lewis's was in 1947 when he appeared on the cover of Time, is strikingly similar-people frightened by the events and cultural shifts of their time. Jordan Peterson is fast emerging as something like the C.S.
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