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Maps of Meaning 1, 2, & 3

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Collapse of a Great Order

The collapse of any great order brings with it new potential. Capitalism has mechanisms in place to allow large structures that are no longer meeting their function to collapse. But frequently they collapse, it's not like they disintegrate into dust. They disintegrate into sub components, many of which then come to terms with the fact that the order has collapsed and build something new. So you can't get rid of culture so easily. You can hack it up into bits. You can disembody it, so to speak. You can spread it all over the state. You can introduce chaos into it, but that's that's something that has the potential of new birth, like the phoenix rising from

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