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139. Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Insufficiency of All Potential Conceptual Schemes

The idea is that elevates your character to the point where you can withstand tragedy and malevolence without becoming corrupt. But apart from that, there's very little that we can say. Could we overcome the catastrophe of mortality? Why not? You think that's beyond our capacity. We don't knowthe tations of our capacity. We're only running at forty per cent. If we don't make full use of all the people that are in the world, we don't have our situation set up so that the gifts that they could offer to everyone are fully realize. So we waste people like mad, and then we waste ourselves like mad....

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