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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Flood Comes, and the Tower of Babel Is Produced

There's a implicit, causal narrative being woven about the manner in which cane responds and the probability that human beings are going to deteriorate. The flood comes, and the tower of babel is produced, and then that's the end of the truly archaic parts of the bible. Well, we already encountered a story like that once. That happened in the marda story where timat and apsu give rise to the elder gods and they kill apsu. They demolish the substructure of their stable society, and of course, chaos comes flooding back....

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