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Maps of Meaning 4, 5, & 6

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How Human Social Order Comes to Be

It's a mistake to assume that there was a chaotic social state upon which a rational order was imposed as a consequence of rational action. It's much more reasonable to presuppose that the order emerged naturally over lengthy periods of time, and then was interpreted and codified in a secondary manner. And so when i'm trying to line for you, in large part is the processes by which that order comes to be. People and even animals communicate in a way that makes their motivation and emotional needs known to one another. Even among wolves and chimpanzees and any kind of lower order social animal, you have the emergence of dominance hierarchies.

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