Peterson criticizes postmodernist attacks on our belief systems and need to have belief systems as emotional nonsense. Without belief systems, people, and especially children, decline into chaos, lawless anarchism and nihilism.
Such skeptical meta-critiques lead to lost innocence for children, the death of Western civilization, the end of the rule of law. If we think that humans are nothing, but unremarkable specks of dust floating around in an endless, indifferent or even hostile universe, we can readily cast aside their questions, searches and belief systems as mere opinions and fairy tales.
If we believe in no god, not cosmos and an end to our species's existence--let alone embracing our personal, pending mortality--no wonder the universe appears to be meaningless and impeersonally uncaring.
Humans require structure, systems of belief, civil society and religious faith to make it.
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