On Page 161 of his book, BEYOND ORDER 12 MORE RULES FOR LIFE, Jordan Peterson writes this: "You might even consider the inculcation of responsibility the fundamental purpose of society. But something has gone wrong. We have committed an error, or series of errors. We have spend too much time, for example (much of the last 50 years), clamoring about rights, and we are no longer asking enough of the young people we are socializing. We have been telling them for decades to demand what they are owed by society. We have been implying that the important meanings of their lives will be given to them because of such demands, when we should have been doing the opposite: letting them know that the meaning that sustains life in all its tragedy and disappointment is to be found in shouldering a noble burden. Because we have not been doing this, they have grown up looking in the wrong places. And this has left them vulnerable: vulnerable to easy answers and susceptible to the deadening force of resentment."
If we can redirect the youth of tomorrow to maverize then shouldering a noble burden will alleviate most of the mistakes that Jordan worries about above.
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