This was too long to read all the way. So maybe my comment is adressed beyond where I read.
Life is suffering. This is the insight of the Buddha, in India, 2,500 years ago. Peterson has not ventured out beyond the Western tradition. If he did, and studied the Buddha, he would understand that there's another path apart from "adopting behaviors to MITIGATE that suffering."
This was too long to read all the way. So maybe my comment is adressed beyond where I read.
Life is suffering. This is the insight of the Buddha, in India, 2,500 years ago. Peterson has not ventured out beyond the Western tradition. If he did, and studied the Buddha, he would understand that there's another path apart from "adopting behaviors to MITIGATE that suffering."
First is recognizing the cause of suffering: desire - craving pleasure, material goods, and immortality, all of which are wants that can never be satisfied - and ignorance. Rather than explain, see https://www.pbs.org/edens/thailand/buddhism.htm#:~:text=The%20First%20Truth%20identifies%20the%20presence%20of%20suffering.&text=In%20Buddhism%2C%20desire%20and%20ignorance,them%20can%20only%20bring%20suffering.
Not mitigating, but rather transcending.