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408. Jordan Peterson & Sam Harris Try to Find Something They Agree On
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
**Tower of Babel building “upward” to wrong goal, result is dysfunction, miscommunication
Mental pleasure is not a sign of moral rightness as pathological ecstasy, like in the case of sadism, can lead to false enthusiasm. Positive emotion linked to dopamine is tied to moving towards a positive goal, so a false goal results in false enthusiasm. The story of the Tower of Babel illustrates that building towards false goals or assumptions leads to disunity and misery, causing an inability to communicate with one another.
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