How we wind up in hell and how to escape

Doctor Jordan Peterson, the Canadian clinical psychologist, once said that sitting at your mother’s deathbed is a tragedy. However, there can still be some redemption in it; it could bring your family together. Now, consider a scenario where you are sitting at your mother’s deathbed, and “you and all your idiot siblings are arguing.” This is what he describes as hell: “You walk away from a situation like that, sick of yourself and sick of everyone else as well” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDcOuTdjq8E). According to Peterson, that kind of hell includes suffering from self-imposed misery, and if you work to make it the best possible outcome it could possibly be, it could still be a tragedy but maybe not hell.

Let’s say you are in hell. Start with the described situations involving the lying, the deception, and the politics. Add in some double binds. Perhaps the insecure leaders see you as...