Escape Society

I think the concern is that we've never been here before, really, and this problem has been ongoing for over a century now. I think the concern is that the thing that established this Western society and which has propped it up has been eroding for a long time which suggests there's a great danger of some kind of catastrophic collapse. And we don't want that of course. And where I come in with my crazy thoughts is that what if this stage we're in is a critical stage that all intelligent species find themselves in? What if we've been at this stage in the past and that's been lost to history? What if we're being evaluated right now as we try to navigate this stage and what if our decisions could be the difference between whether we continue to rise up or whether we fall down to the dirt again or even disappear altogether. 

Also I think sometimes people look at this clip and they think that Peterson is attacking nihilism. To me it seems more like he's sympathizing with nihilism, really trying to map out its cause. The crisis occurs on the other side as well. I was raised where people tried to shove a very simplistic and nonsensical representation of Christianity down my throat. Instead of this causing me to become nihilistic I felt motivated to scrape away the BS to see if it was growing on top of something real. And apparently I came to the same conclusions that Jordan Peterson did. Yes it's real. It's just not what so many people wish it was or think it is.