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#313 – Jordan Peterson: Life, Death, Power, Fame, and Meaning
Lex Fridman Podcast
Why Do They Have Flaming Swords?
When God kicks Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden, he puts cherubim with flaming swords at the gate to stop human beings from reentering paradise. So you could say that the entire Christian narrative is embedded in that image. And a piece of art with an image like that has all that information in it. When it shines forth in some fundamental sense, it reaches into the back tendrils of your mind at levels you can't even comprehend and grips you. That's why people go to museums and gaze at paintings. They don't understand. And that's why they'll pay.
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