The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

139. Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower

Oct 4, 2020

03:38:00

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Introduction

2min

Is Your Interpretation of the World Correct?

2min

The Problem of Perception

2min

The Limitations of a Game

3min

What's the Worst Possible Snake?

2min

You're Sacrificing Your Time to the Spirit of the Great Father

5min

The Story of the Garden of Eden Is the Story of a Tramatic Intrusion

3min

The Worst Snake of All Is Malevolence

2min

You Need Your Sword, but You Need It to Be Sheathed

2min

10.

How to Survive Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

2min

11.

The Trick for Human Thrilling in the Face of Suffering and Malevolence

2min

12.

I'm Going to Die, and I'll Make a Fool of Myself

2min

13.

Are You Afraid of Anything?

2min

14.

You've Learned That You Could Withstand the Threat of Death

3min

15.

The Story of Adam and Eve Is a Meda Story

3min

16.

The Solution to the Problem of Drama and Malevolence

2min

17.

What Happens After a Child's Death?

4min

18.

The Insufficiency of All Potential Conceptual Schemes

3min

19.

The Corruption of Being

2min

20.

The Story of Kain and Abel

2min

21.

Cane and Abel Are the Hostile Brothers

2min

22.

Middle Eastern Mythology - Kane Is the Elder Brother

2min

23.

Is It Necessary to Deprive Your Children of Privilege?

2min

24.

What Is the Transcendental Value of Awe?

2min

25.

The Personification of God the Father in the Old Testament Is a Very Sordid Idea

1min

26.

What's Transcendental?

2min

27.

You Don't Get What You Want Right Now

1min

28.

Let Go of What You Value Now, and Perhaps That Will Pay Off Multi Manifold in the Future

2min

29.

You Sacrifice Something of Value

2min

30.

I Can't Let That Go, Right?

2min

31.

Wine Dot Com - The World's Largest Wine Store Delivered to Your Door

4min

32.

Is Your Interpretation of the World Correct?

2min

33.

The Problem of Perception

2min

34.

The Limitations of a Game

5min

35.

The Spirit of God, the Father, as an Imagistic Representation of the Collective Spirit of the Group

2min

36.

Using a GPS System to Get to the Place You Want to Go

1min

37.

The Snake in the Garden That Pops Up Inside a Structure

2min

38.

The Story of Adam and Eve Is the Story of the Eter Fall

6min

39.

You Don't Want to Be Exploited Again

2min

40.

The Trick for Human Fight in the Face of Suffering and Malevolence Is Strength Not Protection

2min

41.

What Do You Do When You Have a Panic Attack?

2min

42.

What Are You Afraid Of?

2min

43.

I Can Survive the Threat of Death, Right?

2min

44.

The Story of Adam and Eve Is a Meda Story

2min

45.

Is There a Safe Place?

2min

46.

How Much Can You Scale Up to Chaos and Malevolence?

2min

47.

How Do You Not Take Your Client's Problems Home With You?

2min

48.

The Insufficiency of All Potential Conceptual Schemes

2min

49.

Is There a Permanent Solution to Mortality?

2min

50.

The Corruption of Being

2min

51.

Cane and Abel, the First Two Real Human Beings?

2min

52.

What's the Worst Possible Punishment?

3min

53.

Is Kan the Elder Brother or the Younger Brother?

2min

54.

Is There a God in the Sky?

2min

55.

The Transcendental Value of the Personification of God the Father

2min

56.

What's Transcendental?

2min

57.

You Don't Get What You Want Right Now

1min

58.

Let Go of What You Value Now, and Perhaps That Will Pay Off Multi Manifold

2min

59.

Let It Go - It's a Sacrifice

2min

60.

I Can't Let That Go. It's the Fat That High Callory

2min

61.

Is There Something I Don't Know?

2min

62.

Is Kane Doing a Good Job?

2min

63.

The Jenny Coefficient Is a Measure of the Relative Inequality

2min

64.

Is It Inequality That's Driving the Violence?

2min

65.

Do You Attain Status Through Distruction or Through Making Your Offerings?

1min

66.

Kane Is Not Happy With the Social Contract

2min

67.

What God Says to Kane

2min

68.

Is It Bad Enough That God Says, You Should Get Your Act Together

2min

69.

The Voice of Your Brother's Blood Cries Unto Me

2min

70.

What's the Punishment?

2min

71.

Why Justice Systems Are Set Up

2min

72.

What's the Purpose of the Justice System?

2min

73.

Cane, a Descendant of Kane, Is the Person Who Makes Artifices of War

2min

74.

The Notses Are Not Top Down Ordering, Right?

2min

75.

Is It a War for Resources?

2min

76.

Are We Going to Attribute to Hitler the Highest Possible Motives?

1min

77.

Is There a Coherent Narrative?

5min

78.

The Flood Myth and the Tower of Babel

2min

79.

The Flood Comes, and the Tower of Babel Is Produced

2min

80.

The Return of Tiamat and the Flood

2min

81.

The Dragon of Chaos in Your Car

2min

82.

What Is Wilful Blindness?

2min

83.

Is It the Mere Tendency of Things to Degenerate Entropically?

2min

84.

Is There a Flood?

2min

85.

The Ultimate in Tramatic Collapses

2min

86.

Do You Want to Ride Out the Storm?

3min

87.

Is the State the Highest Good?

2min

88.

The Story of Noah Is a Fable With Punch

1min

89.

What Sets Things Right Between Man and God?

2min

90.

The Lord Smelled a Sweet Savour

2min

91.

The Ultimate Chaos Story

2min

92.

The Cortical Expansion of Primates and Group Size

2min

93.

The Ideal Human Group Is Two Hundred Individuals

2min

94.

The Totalitarian State Enterprise to Replay the Transcendental With Structure

2min

95.

The World Economy Is Getting Bigger Each Time

2min

96.

Is Too Big to Fail?

2min

97.

What Happens Afterwards?

2min

98.

You Get to Be King, but You Have to Act Out the Spirit of Being King

3min

99.

Are You Sure That Greece and Germany Can Be in the Same Place?

2min

100.

I've Never Feeled That, You Know?

3min

101.

Women Are Doing Better, but Women Aren't.

2min

102.

I've Been Watching Crowds, and I'm Not Sure Why, but It's Strange

2min

103.

What the Hell Are You Leaving Out if You're Leaven Out Responsibility?

2min

104.

Is There Nothing but Responsibility in the Simpsons?

2min

105.

The Alternative to Valued Responsibility Is Impatience

2min

106.

Do You Have a Choice?

2min

In this lecture, Dr. Peterson continues his discussion of the archaic stories at the beginning of Genesis, including Cain and Abel, and the flood story of Noah (the return of chaos), and the story of the Tower of Babel (which he reads as a very old warning about the danger of erecting something akin to a totalitarian/utopian secular state -- that is pathological order).