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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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We're Dominated Now by What We Know to Be Real

We are dominated by the way in which the left hemisphere seives the world. The understanding of the world comes from the right hemisphere, but it's the left hemisphere that makes you rich for a while. It always seems to take over just as a civilization goes into tail spin and declines. We seem to have, we seem to have lost our compass. And this speaks to me of something that is profoundly missing - the meaning of a human being and a human life.

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