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

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How Much Can You Scale Up to Chaos and Malevolence?

Every time you expose your child to something new, a playground, what are they exposed to? Chaos and malevolence. The more you confront the two of them, the more you grow. And maybe you can grow so that you're actually larger than the chaos and malevolence itself. That kind of pro action cannot exist. It's fatally flawed. So in the buddhas story, for example, what happens after? So buddha's world collapses in the same way that adam and eve's world collapses. It's a consequence of repetative exposure to mortality and death....

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