“Beyond Order” emphasizes the need for family, friends, and community in order to gain the wisdom necessary for upright living. ![]() We need practical wisdom to discriminate between true developments making for a better future and changes that inadvertently undermine the tacit knowledge of social institutions.Īlthough a champion of individual responsibility, Peterson’s new book recognizes the indispensable role of marriage, family, and community. Lewis pointed out in critiquing chronological snobbery, the need for change does not mean that whatever is most recent is therefore better than what came before. ![]() We cannot live in the past, pretending as if time has stopped. And we need to see what we have become blinded to, by our very expertise and specialization, so that we do not lose touch with the Kingdom of God and die in our boredom, ennui, arrogance, blindness to beauty, and soul-deadening cynicism.” We need the new, merely to maintain our position. “Pure traditionalism is doomed for that very reason. Peterson quotes poets like Whitman, Blake, and Wordsworth, and notes the hushed awe that people have in museums before priceless works of art.Ī great artist manifests creativity that renews society, and this renewal is always necessary. “If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, / And from thy slender store / two loaves alone to thee are left, / Sell one, and with the dole / Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.” We cannot live without some connection to the divine - and beauty is divine - because in its absence life is too short, too dismal, and too tragic.” We need beauty as a window to the transcendent. In “Beyond Order,” Peterson advises us to make one room in our home as beautiful as possible, “As it is said, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone’ (Matthew 4:4). Peterson is known for his simple piece of advice, “Clean your room.” But cleaning your room is not enough. Without chaos, the present is too stultified, stifling, and sterile. ![]() Without order, the present is too tumultuous, dangerous, and unpredictable. In his new book “ Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life” (Portfolio / Penguin, $29), he worries about the opposite danger: the attempt to eliminate chaos.Ī meaningful life, Peterson argues, is lived on the border of order and chaos, of conservatism and liberalism, of preserving the wisdom of the past and creating transformation for the future. In his runaway 5 million copy bestseller “ 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos” (Random House Canada, $25.95), Jordan Peterson emphasized the need for order.
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