Reflections on the Jordan Peterson Generation

I am, I suppose, in the Jordan Peterson generation. I was in my late twenties when he rose to success and I was probably in the category of young men he believed himself to be speaking to. I was certainly not someone who would say he saved me from the dragon of chaos that was my untidy room, nor was I ever impressed with his ridiculous theories about lobsters. I just found him mildly interesting. The peak of my Peterson exposure was to listen, several times, to every episode of his 2017 biblical lectures series. While they are frustrating, mad, and sprinkled with unfalsifiable gibberish and self-help gospel, they are also tantalizing. Anyone who listened to them listened to Peterson changing the religious conversation in real time.