J. Peterson also holds that responsibility & meaning are connected. This contains a certain truth, but he presents this as meaning that a responsible life in the bourgeois sense creates meaning. In fact, artists—from Van Gogh to Cellini—are irresponsible, except to their work.
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But most people will not. And so, in this sense, Peterson is overselling the meaningfulness of being an individual in under liberal capitalism, which is in fact not particularly meaningful—as Nietzsche understood.
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