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145. Carl Jung (Part 2)

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Relationship Between Archetypes and the Idea of Meams

Richard dawkins was the guy who originated the idea of meams. He thought that you could produce an idea, or a set of ideas that had the capacity to propagate across minds for whatever reason it was catchy. So they 're these stable sets of ideas thatcan transferred across mines. And so then the idea of how the proper man should act starts to become incorporated in the biology and also in the expectations of society. As the two things get clearer and clearer, the notion of success becomes clearer as well. Now i think you can see that a lot of people are tangled together with this mythological imagination. It's like grasps on to your imagosational platform when you

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