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136. Maps of Meaning 08: Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Individual Is the Eye That Plays, Not the Game, but the Medi Game

The sovereignty of the individual and the individuals sovereign. That's the bedrock idea upon which western civilization is predicated. This applies to everyone, men, women, and not only male female alike. Everyone had this osiris horus soul inside of them and were entitled to be treated as if they were intrinsically valuable in their own right. So so to think about it as an eemergence, as emergent property of enlightenment ideals, is dangerous because that's four hundred years. Who cares about four hundred years? This is forever. And forever is a lot more firm grounding than four hundred years. It's not a set of rational ideas. It's way, way deeper than that....

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