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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Anxiety and Depression - Is Technology Helping?

Technology has led us to believe we understand all sorts of things that we probably understand less well than at any other time in human history. When you begin to see the world as meaningless and purely mechanistic, then you lose the sense of value,. So it causes an epidemic of anxiety and depression. And when people are anxious and depressed like that, they must have certainties. They cling to false certainties. The're disorientated. Anything that comes vey long tatnow becomes the the element. And particularly important is something that offers control. Because anxiety is im it's out of control. It's terrifying. I feel quite unsafe.

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