Alone in my home office, I feel unprepared to be wrestling with the death of God.
On my computer screen, Toronto-based psychologist turned conservative culture warrior Jordan Peterson paces and points and gestures as he begins his eight-hour deep dive on Friedrich Nietzsche, the 19th century German poet and philosopher whose career burnt brilliantly but short. Nietzsche famously declared God a fiction and, as Peterson tells it, predicted an unravelling of meaning and morals from which we’re still trying to dig ourselves out.
