Maybe it is. I’m honestly not sure anymore. And really, that’s not my role. Whether it is or isn’t about gun control is not my area of expertise.
What I do know is that we face an existential vacuum as traditional morals and values continue to change – which can be a good thing, if we choose for them to be. We’ll be discussing that over at The Meaning Project. Today I wanted to share with you a powerful perspective on the topic by esteemed psychologist Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. If you have the time, I encourage you to take the 30 minutes or so to listen to the full podcast. If you enjoy it, certainly check out his book, 12 Rules for Life.
#40 – Message to the school shooters: past, present and future
“I wrote in some detail and with some depth about motivation for the mass slaughter of innocents in my new book, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos. Because of what happened all-too-recently and brutally in Parkland — because of what keeps happening — I thought I would read the relevant chapter (Rule 6: Put your house in perfect order before you criticize the world) and release it on YouTube and as a Podcast. I regard the mass shootings as symptomatic of the nihilism and psychological confusion that so deeply characterizes our society at the current time.”
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