Jordan Peterson: Eastern Europe might avoid the Western scenario

You are working on a new book called We Who Wrestle with God. So, how is the wrestling going during the Christmas time?

It's going great. I'm about three quarters down the last chapter, and then I have some serious editing to do. But I've been walking through the Biblical corpus in the same way that I did with my Genesis lectures in 2017 and with the Exodus seminar that I released last year, incorporating a much wider variety of stories into my thinking and exposition than I have in the past, and I'm very excited about that.

I hope to offer people a comprehensible explanation of the underlying narrative structure of the Biblical corpus and to contrast that with the doctrines of hedonism and power that have arisen as substitutes in the Western world. We know now that we see the world through a story, or more accurately, that a story is a description of the structure that shapes our perception. Once you know that and you understand that you have to live in a story, the only relevant question becomes then, what is the appropriate story? And that's what I'm trying to answer with this book.

The book is coming during a time when we're constantly hearing the pessimistic story, which says that we are destined for failure or even for apocalypse. Is that your motivation behind the book?