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The Psychology of the Flood

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Red Queen Problem

In Ellison Wonderland, when Ellis goes down the rabbit hole that's the underworld right, so now she's gone into the substructure of being and she meets the red queen. The red queen is mother nature and mother nature is running around yelling off with her heads which is what mother nature does. That's a description of in fact evolutionary biologists, psychologists have picked up on that phrase, they call it the red queen problem. Once you can communicate with people in an acceptable manner then you can outsource your problems constantly what you're doing constantly. So if you're a socialized person that's what you get access to and that's something to know if you're going to have kids.

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