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Episode 2: Jordan Peterson

Morality in the 21st Century

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The Map of Meaning

The way you saw this is the journey from the known into the unknown, the hero the adversary. The sense of meaning seems to emerge as a consequence of getting the balance between the known and the unknown correct. If everything around you is only explored, then there's no reason to even be awake. Everything has already taken care of. It's already beeng transformed into an automatized algorithm. And if everything is unknown, it's unbearable. That's what happens when you artromatized. Its too much becomes unknown at once. There's these border conditions of ultification and terror. But in the middle of that, there's this domain that's associated with the experience of meaning

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