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290. Douglas Murray & Jonathan Pageau

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Hierarchy of Attention?

I think that the world out there completely exists neutrally without a value hierarchy which sustains it into unity is more dubious than the other way around. The identification of things, especially if we understand that it necessitates a hierarchy of attention is always meaning. It's actually harder to live without meaning. You can't point your eyes without. You would just lay in bed and wait to die without meaning. Like nothing would exist and nothing would have light in it. To what degree something exists, accepted potential before it's been dramatized and conceptualized? I mean, I think it's one of perhaps the biggest questions of our age of where you can find that as it always has

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