In an interesting talk between Bishop Barron and Jordan Peterson, Jordan Peterson talks about how people fill up auditoriums by the thousands to hear him basically say life is hard. This somehow resonates with people, especially after a generation of soft, more feelings-directed psychology which told you “you’re okay”. It resonates with people who have pondered suicide, for example, who feel they are not okay and are looking for answers.
I rolled my eyes the other day at another one of those Facebook posts where a friend posted a selfie of her now and a selfie of her years ago, saying she is so happy about where her life is headed. She had lost some weight, she had a new boyfriend, but it was hard for me to believe she had found the true elixir of happiness and eternal fulfilment.
The world tells us it’s available at our nearest convenience store, it is laid out in five steps in that bestselling book, it’s in a diet, in an exercise plan, in a mindset, in an essential oil.