“In the end, it’s a good thing that there’s space on the self-help shelves for a book as bracingly pessimistic as this one. Yet he also reminds us of something important, which the Left is apt to forget: that not all our suffering is the result of “power disparities” some of it comes from the fact that we are “finite” beings. Peterson’s relentless focus on the “agonising human predicament” leaves little space for humour, said Oliver Burkeman in The Guardian. His prose, however, is repetitious and self-important, and the battiness of his ideas soon becomes all too clear (one chapter is devoted to the “philosophical meaning” of Harry Potter). The rules themselves – “Make one room in your house beautiful” “Be grateful in spite of your suffering” – are “really nothing to argue about”.Īs a speaker, Peterson oozes “charisma, authority and dazzling spontaneous intellect”, said James Marriott in The Times. Yet though blinkered on certain issues, Peterson has a powerful message: that life is suffering, and the goal is “to find meaning rather than happiness”. Women, admittedly, won’t find much to entice them in his vision – he advises them to have babies young and to keep their marriages alive “with candles, lingerie and talking”. Once more, Peterson advances the Jungian argument that life is a contest between order and chaos, represented respectively by masculinity and femininity. Danyl Mclauchlan’s new essay collection Tranquillity and. It is again structured around 12 rules and consists of “hokey wisdom combined with good advice”. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life, by Jordan B Peterson (Allen Lane, 38) can be ordered from Unity Books Auckland and Wellington. 55 books for your must-read bucket listīeyond Order is strikingly similar to its predecessor, said Suzanne Moore in The Daily Telegraph.Jordan Peterson: cult psychologist or ‘professor of piffle’?.
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