Jordan Peterson And Original Sin

 On Page 47 of his book, 12 RULES FOR LIFE AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS, Jordan Peterson explains his view on human depravity: "The worst of all possible snakes is the eternal proclivity for evil. The worst of all possible snakes is psychological, spiritual, personal, eternal. No walls, however tall, will keep that out. Even if the fortress were thick enough, in principle, to keep everything bad whatsoever outside, it would immediately appear again within. As the great Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn insisted, the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."

Eric Hoffer too believes in human depravity, though he does not use those words. Of interest, I cannot remember where he wrote it off the top of my head, but one of his famous essays on cities is where he observes that cities seemed to be monuments to effective human striving against nature, efficient and workable, as if nature external to humans is then conquered, and then nature within human beings start revolting and acting out to make cities unlivable and troubled once again. Inner chaos in our natures erupts in human misbehavior as evil behavior.