"I was interested in what it took to have someone who as already ruined, carry a sack of wet salt on their breaking back from one side of the camp compound," he says. "That's what led me into the mythological domain, i would say, because that's an adversarial motivation." He adds: 'To do that. It's spitting in the face of being itself. ... motivated by resentment and bitterness'
Join Michael Shermer and Jordan Peterson (bestselling author of 12 Rules for Life) for this extraordinary conversation based on Peterson’s new book Beyond Order. After working for decades as a clinical psychologist and a professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto, Peterson has become one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals. His YouTube videos and podcasts have gathered a worldwide audience of hundreds of millions, and his global book tour reached more than 250,000 people in major cities across the globe. What is it that gives Peterson’s message such mass appeal?