Have some damn faith!

A clinical psychologist, Peterson explores an eternal tendency in humanity toward a creeping existential nihilism, based on an underlying scornfulness, guilt and loathing toward oneself, and toward humanity in general.

People can give up, he says, and treat themselves as not worth treating well, as not worth backing and fighting for.

But there’s an eternal opposing instinct, too, that says Being (life, existence) is Good.

Faith he said, is “the realisation that the tragic irrationalities of life must be counterbalanced by an equally irrational commitment to the essential goodness of Being.”

I like that. It rings true.

What if we binned our doubts and disinclinations about the people around us, and took a gamble on them?