Jordan Peterson: Expressing the self evident truth + a powerful excerpt from his book "12 Rules for Life: an antidote to chaos"

Nobody is hotter in the intellectual/political streets today than Jordan Peterson. While I don't agree with him all the time, sometimes he finds a way to articulate societal problems and life altogether is the most eloquent way.

As JP says on Bill Maher in the video below, he finds a way to express things that are "self-evidently true but not expressed very well very often."

If you've never heard of Jordan Peterson or haven't seen his interview on Bill Maher, check it out. It's great.

I've also been reading his book and came across another brilliant stroke of wisdom and had to share it. You can find that beneath the video.

Chaos and order make up the eternal, transcendent environment of the living.
To straddle that fundamental duality is to be balanced: to have one foot firmly planted in order and security, and the other in chaos, possibility, growth and adventure. When life suddenly reveals itself as intense, gripping and meaningful; when time passes and you're so engrossed in what you're doing you don't notice it--it is there and then that you are located precisely on the border between order and chaos. The subjective meaning that we encounter there is the reaction of our deepest being, our neurologically and evolutionarily grounded instinctive self, indicating that we are ensuring the stability but also the expansion of habitable, productive territory, of space that is personal, social and natural. It's the right place to be, in every sense. You are there when--and where--it matters. That's what the music is telling you, too, when you're listening--even more, perhaps, when you're dancing--when its harmonious layered patterns of predictability and unpredictability make meaning itself well up from the most profound depths of your Being.

DAMN

As always!