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Eventually, something’s got to give. One man can only do so much. And yet, for a couple of years, psychology professor Jordan Peterson did more than most.

Plucked from relative obscurity following a particularly heated television segment, Peterson rocketed to international fame as a firm voice of reason who sought to help today’s youth navigate the many troubling neuroses of our time.

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His no-nonsense approach was equivalent to the nurse who rips off the band-aid. Tough medicine, but you felt better for it.

These times are indeed troubling. The neuroses are many. And so Peterson’s task was like that of Atlas.

It sometimes seemed, to watch him as he toured the globe and took on critics and hostile interviewers, like he was single-handedly carrying the modern’s world psychological problems on his back as the rest of us watched on.

From the beginning of his rise, Peterson was the subject of considerable attention that ranged from intense praise and an adoring fan-base to non-stop slander and mischaracterization.