I like and admire Jordan Peterson. He seems a little too gloomy for me when he adduces that life is suffering tainted by malevolence. He is mostly correct of course. I would modify his generalization about the human condition by rephrasing his insight: "Life is suffering more than it is enjoyment, but suffering, neutral existing and fleeting moments of enjoyment are all informative to the heedful and awake existent. Malevolence from ourselves, from others, from society, from the Devil and nature itself must be dealt with and rebuffed.
As we adapt an outlook of love, wonder, intellectual curiosity and optimism, then our existence with the powerful presence of suffering and felt malevolence, become bearable, and we even come to realize a mood of hopefulness, peace and reassurance gained from constant feedback from the signaling, transcendent deities.
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