![]() ![]() However, Peterson appears unbowed by the experience, for Beyond Order, which is subtitled 12 More Rules for Life, continues in much the same vein. He is not masculinity’s saviour, nor the voice of evil as portrayed by the staff at Penguin who wanted the book dropped It’s hard to resist the conclusion that 12 Rules for Life was a self-help book that left its author in exactly the kind of hopeless state to which it promised to be an antidote. ![]() He also suffered extreme anxiety, severe depression, insomnia, double pneumonia, his wife underwent surgery for cancer, and at one point he was put into an induced coma in a Moscow hospital in an unsuccessful attempt to free him from drugs. In the “Overture” of Beyond Order, the follow-up to 12 Rules for Life, he details an extraordinary story of physical and psychological collapse, as an autoimmune response to something he ate led to a drastic change in diet and a dependence on the sedative benzodiazepine. But then stories emerged of his withdrawal from the frontline of the culture wars. Peterson seemed to relish the conflict, going on tour, producing a podcast, a YouTube channel and appearing on combative TV interviews, inspiring his supporters and provoking his enemies. ![]() Depending on where you stood, he’d either swept away a lot of woolly thinking or produced a guidebook for the kind of embittered men who formed Donald Trump’s praetorian guard of Proud Boys. To the sound of bootstraps being firmly pulled up, the book sold 5m copies in English, and was translated into 50 other languages.Īlmost overnight, the Canadian professor of psychology had become the most divisive public intellectual of his generation, hailed as a visionary and denounced as a reactionary, the subject of both great hero worship and vilification. His advice was to accept the reality of competition, stand up straight with your shoulders back, and stop complaining. ![]() The book appealed to men who felt threatened by a loss of status, and Peterson reassured them that their historically superior position in society might have more to do with competence than patriarchy. ![]()
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