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Our Emotions and the Social Hierarchy – Part Two

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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What's the Difference Between Morality and Sociality?

We come to some negotiated agreement about what's good and what isn't. This is partly, i think the post modernists went off the rails so badly with their insistence that the world was only language. We've organized a moral game, a very complex one, and then we master it through reciprocal interaction with one another. And if there's a concordance between the way we acted out and the way the world responds, then we're ok. There's nothing more disturbing to you than to act out a high order moral good but not be rewarded for it. That's the definition that's a definition of a functioning political system. It's composed of this very unbelievably complex, nested set

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