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137. Maps of Meaning 09: Patterns of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Human Sacrifice Is a Conceptualization of Utter Genius

The idea of sacrifice, it's an act of the idea itself is a conceptualization of utter genius. And why do you expect it to come forward first in its perfect form? It's not going to do that. It's going to come forward imperfectly and roughly and brutally, and then hopefully be refined across time. You see, even in the biblical stories, the transition from human sacrifice to animal sacrifice. Then with us now it's the transition from animal sacrifice to psychological sacrifice. Cause we're sophisticated enough to do that. We can let go of concepts and abstractions and things that we should no longer hold on to. But we still make sacrifices, and we hope that they'll...

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