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Aim at a Star - A 12 Rules for Life Lecture

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Pinocchio Is a Star in the Night

In Pinocchio Jesus Christ is a cricket which is very peculiar and to say the least even though you'll swallow it so to speak without even noticing he shows you a book. Jepedo has a name and what he does is aim at a star now because stars are something that glimmers in the night right it's a source of light in the darkness. If you go outside and you look up at the stars then you're confronting infinity in some sense and it's actually been a real catastrophe for people I think to be enveloped in light pollution. Our ethical systems are attempts using our dreamlike intuition to build up structures of ethics that provide us with aims that have exactly that purpose.

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