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278. The Matter with Things | Iain McGilchrist

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is Music a Cultural Artifact?

Beauty is greatly exaggerated at its somehow a cultural artifact. I think that if you listen to kinds of music, it's rather inane to say to reduce it to, well, it's attractive in certain ways,. But there's a certain kind of music which cries out for another category - namely that of the soul or the spirit. We find oriental art staggeringly beautiful. Our museums are full of it. And our museums are also full of people from the far east coming to visit them. They don't think that somehow it's ugly, because it's not part of their deaption. One of the most moving things that ive e've seen. An amazonian

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