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148. Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard (Existentialism)
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
The Unknown Is Partly Terror, Partly Predation
We use the same circuitry to represent the absolute unknown that we used so many millions of years ago to represent predators. You might say the unknown is partly terror, and that's the prepotent element of the unknown. So negative emotion for human beings is more powerful than positive emotion, is sort of dose for dose. And it's better to be anxious than to be in pain or dead, even though it's not so good to be anxious.
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