If Jordan Peterson’s conversation with Richard Dawkins taught us anything this week, it’s that the answer to the crisis of our time will not be found in either man’s lofty ideas.
While Dawkins and Peterson argue over the dental records of Cain and Abel, our educational institutions are crumbling, because they have abandoned truth. This is where the fight needs to be.
Dawkin’s obsession with “facts” simply can’t account for the chaos and neither can it offer any kind of solution. Peterson is closer, but the splinters from the fence he has been sitting on are starting to cause him visible discomfort. “If there was a fence between heaven and hell,” Johnny Cash sang, “it would be owned by the Devil himself.”
