An often-heard complaint is that people no longer know how to reason, debate or communicate successfully.  Jordan Peterson has deplored this state of affairs in best-selling self-help books. He continually urges his audience to read Nietzsche as a way of understanding the nihilism which engulfs society in the 21st century. While approvingly citing Nietzsche’s dictum that “truth should serve life”, he nonetheless bemoans the displacement of reason in contemporary society.  This trend can be the result of an over-preoccupation with the power and scope of religious sentiment, from which Nietzsche and others certainly suffer.