
#67 — Meaning and Chaos
Making Sense with Sam Harris
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The Archetype of the Hero
The hero is the person who's most likely to move up any given dominance hierarchy at any time in any place. The oldest story we have, which is the Enuma Elish from Mesopotamia is a story about Marduk,. He confronts the dragon of chaos, cuts her into pieces and makes the world. So that's how the extended religious phenotype manifests itself in evolutionary space. And again, you could tell me what you what I think about this.
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