But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions — and there’s nothing freeing about that. - Jordan Peterson

"And this brings us to a third erroneous concept: that nature is sometimes strickly segregated from the cultral constructs that have emerged within it. The order within the chaos and order of Being is all the more "natural" the longer it has lasted. This is because "nature" is "what selects", and the longer a feature has existed the more time it has had to be selected — and to shape life. It does not matter whether that feature is physical and biological, or social and cultural. All that matters, from a Darwinian perspective, is permanence — and the dominance hierarchy, however social and cultural it might appear, has been around for some half a billion years."

In my kingdom,” as the Red Queen tells Alice in Wonderland, “you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.” No one standing still can triumph, no matter how well constituted.

A hurricane is an act of God. But failure to prepare, when the necessity for preparation is well known — that’s sin.