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290. Douglas Murray & Jonathan Pageau

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Love Is Something That Survives After Us

Larkin: Love is something that echoes in the universe, it's something that survives after us. When you love someone, I do believe that what you see in them is something like a glimpse of the eternal embedded in the finite. We don't understand the relationship between the finite and the infinite, we don't know how our actions echo in the eternal landscape. Larkin: The single greatest cause of demoralization in society seems to me not just this issue of not having a story, but the sense that nothing matters. So why would you bother doing anything? Why would you bother setting sail into the wind and trying to discover new things?

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