The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - The Sins of Adam and the True Nature of Eve

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00:00:51.040 Good evening and welcome to Dr. Jordan B. Peterson's We Who Wrestle With God Tour.

00:01:00.280 Thank you.

00:01:30.280 All these great bands, and here you are tonight.

00:01:36.360 Well, thank you very much for coming.

00:01:38.260 Let me tell you what's going to happen tonight.

00:01:39.960 I'm going to share my thoughts with you for 70 minutes, thereabouts.

00:01:48.020 Then I have a special guest here, Konstantin Kizin, who runs a podcast.

00:01:53.180 Good. Well, you should know about him, definitely.

00:01:58.620 Crazy Russian from the UK. 1.00

00:02:02.320 A real voice of reason for our fellow Westerners in the UK. 0.90

00:02:12.720 Konstantin is going to come out on stage and torture me about what I said, I hope.

00:02:18.500 Well, what I'm hoping, Konstantin is a very clear thinker, very witty man.

00:02:25.200 He's got a very sharp mind.

00:02:27.000 He's critically oriented in the best possible way.

00:02:29.840 A good critical mind separates the wheat from the chaff, right?

00:02:33.040 Because to be property critical isn't to hurt or destroy with criticism.

00:02:38.360 It's to separate what's truly valuable from what isn't valuable,

00:02:42.220 so that you have solid ground to stand on.

00:02:44.400 And, you know, one of the things that I've strived to do in my whole academic career

00:02:48.460 is to move closer and closer to believing and stating and writing things

00:02:55.880 that I can't move.

00:03:01.240 And you do that yourself by subjecting your own presumptions to critical analysis.

00:03:10.600 You do that so that you think through what you're doing, 1.00

00:03:14.720 so that you don't act out your stupid ideas in the world and die. 1.00

00:03:19.840 And that's the purpose of thinking, right? 1.00

00:03:22.220 Seriously, the purpose of thinking is to have your stupid ideas die instead of you. 1.00

00:03:29.580 And that's part of the reason why your enemy can be your best friend, 1.00

00:03:32.600 because if someone can take out something you think,

00:03:35.760 because they can show you how it's erroneous and counterproductive, 0.81

00:03:40.200 and then you don't have to go through all the trouble of learning that stupidly in the world, 0.95

00:03:44.620 that's a fine gift. 0.89

00:03:46.620 And so, I'm hoping that Constantine can stand in for the audience,

00:03:52.960 for the critical and skeptical audience.

00:03:55.160 We're talking about very difficult issues.

00:03:56.940 It's highly likely that I could formulate what I'm stating more clearly and precisely.

00:04:05.880 And so, Constantine will come out and we'll discuss what was presented tonight,

00:04:13.320 and then we'll turn to the questions that you've kindly delivered and discuss those.

00:04:19.360 And then we'll reintroduce the band, and that should do for the evening.

00:04:24.580 And so, that's the plan.

00:04:27.560 And so, away we go.

00:04:30.180 I'm very much looking forward to this.

00:04:39.020 So, the first thing we're going to talk about is,

00:04:42.320 we're going to talk about stories and set the stage.

00:04:47.080 I think we're at a crucial inflection point in the world.

00:04:54.880 Culturally and philosophically.

00:04:57.560 I think we're on the dawn of a new set of realizations.

00:05:02.480 A new set of realizations that will return us to our fundamentals.

00:05:07.620 I think the reason that we have a culture war raging in the West,

00:05:11.800 why there's so much instability,

00:05:14.080 is because something new is struggling to be born or reborn.

00:05:19.180 And I want to explain the reason for that first.

00:05:23.860 And the reason is that the Enlightenment view of the world,

00:05:31.480 which has guided our technological and scientific endeavor,

00:05:35.980 our conceptual endeavor,

00:05:37.080 our philosophical endeavor for a few hundred years,

00:05:43.520 is there's something about it that's wrong.

00:05:45.780 Like, deeply wrong.

00:05:47.200 And that error is making itself manifest in the scientific community.

00:05:54.860 Because I would say now that scientists themselves from a multitude of different disciplines

00:06:00.860 understand that the idea that we see the world as a place of facts,

00:06:08.060 or that we see the world as rational creatures,

00:06:11.640 or that you can even see the world that way,

00:06:14.760 is wrong.

00:06:16.640 Wrong.

00:06:17.200 And I believe that it's been demonstrated to be wrong.

00:06:20.840 This isn't a matter of mere philosophical opinion anymore,

00:06:24.540 although it's also that.

00:06:26.400 One example, for example,

00:06:28.620 is that the newest artificial intelligence systems that we've designed,

00:06:34.780 the large language models that have burst onto the stage in the last year,

00:06:39.000 or thereabouts,

00:06:39.920 ChatGPT,

00:06:41.240 the catastrophic Gemini that Google so foolishly launched,

00:06:45.020 Elon Musk's Grok.

00:06:49.220 These systems are trained like human beings are trained.

00:06:53.760 They have an aim.

00:06:54.940 They have a purpose.

00:06:56.580 They were trained with reward and punishment, so to speak.

00:07:00.840 They're approximations to a target.

00:07:03.280 They see the world through a structure of value

00:07:06.520 that they have absorbed from human beings

00:07:09.560 to make the world's smartest linguistic machines.

00:07:15.640 We had to inculcate in them a structure of value.

00:07:19.980 Okay.

00:07:20.480 And so,

00:07:21.320 and we produced machines now

00:07:23.180 that can engage in discourse,

00:07:25.760 that can use language in a way

00:07:27.300 that's virtually indistinguishable from the human,

00:07:29.340 and that's going to become

00:07:30.300 radically indistinguishable from the human

00:07:33.500 very, very rapidly.

00:07:35.720 And they're not programmed like lists of rules.

00:07:40.580 They're not programmed like ordinary thinking machines.

00:07:45.440 They're programmed the same way that human beings learn.

00:07:48.000 They're programmed with aim.

00:07:49.540 They have an ethos and an ethic.

00:07:51.120 We can't orient ourselves in the world

00:07:58.420 with the facts.

00:08:01.840 We can't follow the science

00:08:04.520 because science isn't a leader.

00:08:07.980 Science doesn't establish our aims.

00:08:11.100 Our aims are established

00:08:12.360 using mechanisms of perception and emotion

00:08:15.980 and thought that aren't in themselves scientific.

00:08:19.420 We're aiming at something.

00:08:23.560 Why can't we orient ourselves

00:08:25.700 in the world with the facts?

00:08:30.140 Well, the simplest explanation for that

00:08:33.440 is that there are too many facts.

00:08:37.960 There's as many facts as there are phenomena.

00:08:42.620 More, actually.

00:08:44.040 There's as many facts as there are

00:08:46.100 possible combinations of phenomena.

00:08:49.420 You drown in the facts.

00:08:51.760 When you're confused in your own life

00:08:53.760 and things are chaotic

00:08:54.760 and you're anxious,

00:08:56.820 it's because a plethora of possibilities

00:09:00.220 is making itself manifest in front of you

00:09:02.900 and you don't know which way to turn.

00:09:05.220 You don't have a clear direction.

00:09:06.620 You don't have a clear aim.

00:09:07.680 There's no way of simplifying the world

00:09:09.620 so that you can act in it.

00:09:11.680 We know, for example,

00:09:13.140 that to perceive the world,

00:09:14.740 you have to obliterate from your consciousness

00:09:17.740 almost everything that you could see

00:09:20.740 because otherwise you're overwhelmed.

00:09:25.440 We know even that the hallucinogens

00:09:27.320 who are being studied with increasing intensity

00:09:31.100 in recent years

00:09:32.780 interfere with your normal perception

00:09:36.140 such that they bring to consciousness

00:09:39.400 a plethora of things

00:09:41.680 that under normal circumstances you ignore.

00:09:45.140 And the consequence of that

00:09:46.380 is an influx of a sense

00:09:49.480 of overwhelming significance and meaning

00:09:51.980 but at the same time

00:09:53.560 a kind of paralysis of action

00:09:55.540 because when everything becomes

00:09:58.320 infinitely meaningful,

00:10:00.540 there's no straightforward way

00:10:02.820 of moving forward.

00:10:04.420 When you're in a restaurant

00:10:05.700 with someone on a first date

00:10:07.520 and you're focusing on

00:10:09.380 the conversation and actions

00:10:11.600 of your date

00:10:12.580 in a sea of competing conversations,

00:10:18.380 you zero out everything

00:10:19.960 that you could be attending to

00:10:22.480 in every other table.

00:10:24.040 All the competing thoughts

00:10:25.660 in your imagination.

00:10:27.140 All the things you could be

00:10:28.800 bringing to mind

00:10:30.100 to zero in with like laser pinpoint accuracy

00:10:33.820 on what it is

00:10:35.280 that your partner in conversation is doing.

00:10:37.920 And you do that in the world all the time.

00:10:40.020 You make one thing at a time

00:10:42.380 of pinnacle importance

00:10:44.740 and you arrange everything else in the world

00:10:48.340 at every moment that you perceive

00:10:50.580 around that thing that you've made

00:10:53.080 of pinnacle importance.

00:10:55.200 That's how you see the world.

00:10:56.640 And I don't mean think about the world.

00:10:58.420 This is under thought.

00:11:00.600 It's more profound.

00:11:02.740 It's what you do

00:11:04.220 when you actually see.

00:11:07.140 If I decide to do something

00:11:09.980 straightforward

00:11:11.800 like walk from here

00:11:15.760 to the stairs on the stage

00:11:18.220 and I set my aim,

00:11:20.860 I don't perceive any of you

00:11:23.760 in consequence

00:11:25.220 because the fact of your existence

00:11:27.920 is irrelevant to my purpose

00:11:29.880 and you're gone.

00:11:32.200 None of the facts of the stage

00:11:34.540 that I could attend to

00:11:36.460 are relevant and perceptible

00:11:39.400 anymore except insofar

00:11:42.320 as they're pathways

00:11:45.380 or facilitators or obstacles

00:11:48.360 to my journey forward.

00:11:50.780 If I'm looking to the stairs,

00:11:53.380 I see the chairs

00:11:54.900 but not as places to sit.

00:11:57.060 I see them as obstacles

00:11:59.080 that I have to circumvent

00:12:00.780 in order to attain my aim.

00:12:03.060 Everything that you see in the world

00:12:05.240 makes itself manifest

00:12:07.040 in accordance with your aim.

00:12:10.100 And that's a radically,

00:12:12.120 revolutionarily,

00:12:13.680 different way of conceptualizing the world

00:12:16.620 than the notion

00:12:19.200 that you take the facts

00:12:21.160 and you sort them

00:12:23.140 despite their infinite number

00:12:25.620 and calculate your way

00:12:27.640 with the facts

00:12:29.060 rationally forward.

00:12:31.040 That's not what you do.

00:12:33.780 All right.

00:12:34.140 Here's a proposition

00:12:40.140 to contemplate.

00:12:42.620 It's another proposition

00:12:44.000 that has revolutionary significance.

00:12:46.200 It'll explain all sorts of things

00:12:47.680 that you know to be true

00:12:48.880 but don't know why they're true.

00:12:52.880 The description

00:12:54.180 of the structure

00:12:57.840 through which you see the world

00:13:00.640 is a story.

00:13:04.800 That's what a story is.

00:13:06.300 Okay.

00:13:06.580 So now,

00:13:07.620 this explains

00:13:08.620 many things

00:13:10.020 that are otherwise left

00:13:10.980 as mysteries

00:13:12.780 or side effects.

00:13:15.740 I read a book

00:13:16.300 by Steven Pinker once.

00:13:17.700 Pinker's an Enlightenment

00:13:18.760 rationalist from Harvard

00:13:20.380 and a good guy

00:13:21.400 and very smart

00:13:22.300 and much of what he says

00:13:24.000 is extraordinarily useful

00:13:25.120 but he believes,

00:13:26.460 for example,

00:13:26.960 that our proclivity

00:13:27.760 to enjoy and tell stories

00:13:30.300 is like a side effect

00:13:31.600 of something

00:13:33.360 more fundamental

00:13:34.160 cognitively.

00:13:34.980 It's the story

00:13:36.160 as entertainment theory.

00:13:37.660 You go to a movie

00:13:38.460 because it's fun.

00:13:40.340 You read a book

00:13:41.600 of fiction

00:13:42.180 to your child

00:13:42.800 because it's fun.

00:13:44.260 It's not core

00:13:45.600 to the,

00:13:47.680 what would you say,

00:13:48.880 it's not a core element

00:13:50.460 of the way

00:13:51.100 that you exist

00:13:51.920 in the world.

00:13:53.560 It's mere entertainment.

00:13:55.040 It misses the point,

00:14:00.640 that theory.

00:14:01.880 Why is it entertaining?

00:14:04.380 Why can you teach

00:14:05.540 children with stories?

00:14:07.760 If you get the story

00:14:09.180 right for a child,

00:14:10.220 you can capture

00:14:11.160 the child's interest

00:14:12.020 and you can

00:14:12.600 integrate almost

00:14:15.200 any form of learning

00:14:16.180 into the story

00:14:17.000 and the child

00:14:17.940 will be captivated

00:14:18.760 by that.

00:14:19.400 When children play,

00:14:21.280 pretend play,

00:14:21.940 which they do

00:14:22.540 spontaneously,

00:14:23.500 they spontaneously

00:14:25.200 dramatize the world.

00:14:26.640 They spontaneously

00:14:27.620 make stories

00:14:30.280 out of their roles

00:14:31.560 and their,

00:14:32.260 and their destinies.

00:14:35.080 And that,

00:14:35.600 that,

00:14:36.580 that captures them.

00:14:38.160 That forms the basis

00:14:39.200 of their friendships.

00:14:40.560 That's why children

00:14:41.200 want to play

00:14:41.780 so frenetically

00:14:42.660 is that they're

00:14:43.920 practicing

00:14:45.100 modeling the world.

00:14:47.300 When you go see a movie,

00:14:49.160 it's not that you

00:14:50.360 want to be entertained,

00:14:51.680 although it is

00:14:52.560 entertained.

00:14:52.880 That's not why

00:14:53.520 you're there.

00:14:54.320 It's not for fun

00:14:55.560 either.

00:14:56.540 That's easy to understand

00:14:58.060 and to,

00:14:58.500 and to see

00:14:59.100 what's fun

00:15:00.440 about a horror movie.

00:15:02.760 I'm dead serious.

00:15:04.080 It's like,

00:15:05.100 people will be

00:15:07.880 so afraid

00:15:08.480 in a horror movie

00:15:09.140 that they'll

00:15:09.520 cover their eyes.

00:15:11.420 They'll hide

00:15:12.000 behind the chair

00:15:12.780 in front of them.

00:15:14.040 They'll ask

00:15:14.640 themselves afterwards

00:15:15.480 why they even

00:15:16.620 put themselves

00:15:17.160 through it.

00:15:18.020 And yet,

00:15:18.480 they'll line up

00:15:19.300 and pay to do it.

00:15:20.400 Well,

00:15:21.780 why would you

00:15:23.240 line up

00:15:24.520 and pay 0.96

00:15:25.300 to torture yourself? 0.91

00:15:28.240 Well,

00:15:29.720 because you want to know

00:15:32.980 how to deal

00:15:33.480 with what's horrifying.

00:15:34.400 And you want to

00:15:37.180 practice that

00:15:37.800 in a way

00:15:38.220 if you can

00:15:38.860 that isn't

00:15:40.100 in itself fatal.

00:15:41.580 You want to

00:15:42.060 expose yourself

00:15:42.760 to the catastrophes

00:15:43.960 of existence

00:15:44.560 so that you're

00:15:45.800 prepared when

00:15:46.340 those catastrophes

00:15:47.280 come along.

00:15:48.160 You want to

00:15:48.680 expose yourself

00:15:50.500 to the predators

00:15:52.100 that lurk everywhere.

00:15:53.520 You want to

00:15:54.580 inure yourself

00:15:55.540 against what's

00:15:56.440 disgusting

00:15:57.100 and contaminating 1.00

00:15:58.180 because you're

00:15:59.040 going to have

00:15:59.380 to deal with it.

00:16:00.720 You want to

00:16:01.240 expose yourself

00:16:01.940 to what's frightening

00:16:02.620 so that you can

00:16:03.460 find the courage

00:16:04.680 within you

00:16:05.520 to deal with

00:16:06.660 what's frightening.

00:16:07.820 And that's part

00:16:08.540 of the instinct

00:16:09.180 to develop

00:16:10.320 and expand

00:16:11.020 your competence.

00:16:12.540 And it's

00:16:13.320 in that expansion

00:16:14.760 of competence

00:16:15.780 and skill

00:16:16.760 that occurs

00:16:17.780 as a consequence

00:16:18.560 of that voluntary

00:16:19.440 exposure

00:16:20.140 that the

00:16:21.140 entertainment

00:16:21.820 is situated.

00:16:23.380 The reason

00:16:23.840 that's entertaining

00:16:24.600 is because

00:16:25.180 it's part

00:16:26.540 of the manner

00:16:27.200 in which you

00:16:27.860 expand yourself.

00:16:29.100 And you can

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00:16:32.840 just as you

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00:18:16.700 when you go to

00:18:17.260 a movie?

00:18:18.160 You fasten

00:18:19.520 on to a character

00:18:20.480 and you understand

00:18:21.700 that character

00:18:22.240 the same way

00:18:22.920 that you understand

00:18:24.100 people that you're

00:18:24.920 in conversation

00:18:25.460 with.

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00:18:30.420 they say and

00:18:31.300 you extract out

00:18:32.300 the knowledge

00:18:33.040 that they're

00:18:33.540 delivering to

00:18:34.240 you in terms

00:18:35.680 of facts and

00:18:36.520 you interpret

00:18:37.040 the facts and

00:18:37.820 you derive your

00:18:38.540 understanding of

00:18:39.260 the person.

00:18:40.160 Like none of

00:18:40.880 that's true.

00:18:41.520 that has

00:18:42.940 absolutely nothing

00:18:43.940 to do with how

00:18:44.660 you establish a

00:18:45.420 relationship with

00:18:46.120 someone.

00:18:46.920 And well here's

00:18:47.660 some proof.

00:18:48.580 Is that what you

00:18:49.260 do with a dog?

00:18:51.520 Well obviously

00:18:52.580 not but you can

00:18:53.780 establish a

00:18:54.460 relationship with

00:18:55.260 a dog and so

00:18:57.140 and the relationship

00:18:58.100 you have with a

00:18:58.860 dog it's not the

00:19:00.140 same as the

00:19:00.800 relationship with

00:19:01.520 a person but a

00:19:02.180 dog's a pack

00:19:02.860 animal.

00:19:03.660 A dog can become

00:19:04.300 a member of the

00:19:05.000 family.

00:19:06.200 You can understand

00:19:08.280 a dog well enough

00:19:09.480 so the dog likes

00:19:11.100 you.

00:19:12.380 Right and so

00:19:13.240 whatever you're

00:19:14.260 doing with the

00:19:14.820 dog it isn't

00:19:15.600 discourse about

00:19:17.480 propositions because

00:19:19.040 most of the dogs

00:19:20.120 you own don't

00:19:21.680 talk.

00:19:23.100 So and it's the

00:19:25.040 same with very

00:19:25.640 young children and

00:19:27.020 it's the same with

00:19:30.040 an infant.

00:19:31.140 You establish a

00:19:32.180 relationship using

00:19:33.800 mechanisms that

00:19:34.720 aren't propositional.

00:19:36.980 They're not rules.

00:19:37.980 They're not

00:19:38.240 descriptions.

00:19:38.800 They're not facts.

00:19:40.260 That's not how you

00:19:41.200 do it.

00:19:41.940 How do you do it?

00:19:42.960 Where do you look

00:19:43.720 when you talk to

00:19:44.460 someone?

00:19:45.680 You look at their

00:19:46.380 eyes.

00:19:48.000 Why?

00:19:49.140 To see where

00:19:49.980 they're pointing

00:19:50.460 them.

00:19:51.540 Why?

00:19:52.440 So you can see

00:19:53.480 what they're looking

00:19:54.240 at.

00:19:55.080 Why?

00:19:56.720 So you can infer

00:19:57.880 what's important to

00:19:58.780 them because we

00:19:59.380 point our eyes at

00:20:00.140 that which is

00:20:01.740 important to us.

00:20:02.700 That's why our

00:20:03.480 eyes look the way

00:20:05.140 they look.

00:20:06.340 Black in the 0.94

00:20:06.980 middle, colored

00:20:07.880 on that ring

00:20:08.960 around that

00:20:09.540 against a white 0.74

00:20:10.420 background.

00:20:11.640 That's an evolved

00:20:12.540 mechanism.

00:20:13.220 I can see your

00:20:13.880 eyes.

00:20:14.940 All of our

00:20:15.680 ancestors whose

00:20:16.540 eyes weren't

00:20:17.660 visible either

00:20:19.160 got killed or

00:20:19.960 didn't reproduce.

00:20:22.520 The one thing you

00:20:23.440 want to know about

00:20:24.080 someone right away

00:20:25.260 is where the hell

00:20:26.040 their eyes are 0.62

00:20:26.620 pointed.

00:20:27.620 And you can do

00:20:28.200 that politely,

00:20:29.200 which you do by

00:20:30.180 attending to

00:20:30.740 someone without

00:20:31.660 too predatory a

00:20:33.040 stare.

00:20:33.840 You do that by

00:20:34.900 attending politely

00:20:36.580 to their face,

00:20:37.640 but not too

00:20:38.360 intensely, and not

00:20:39.360 attending, let's

00:20:40.360 say, inappropriately

00:20:41.420 to other parts of

00:20:42.320 their body.

00:20:43.440 And they're going to

00:20:44.860 be watching you to

00:20:45.660 see what you do

00:20:46.320 with your eyes.

00:20:47.660 Because the one

00:20:48.380 thing you want to

00:20:48.920 know about someone

00:20:49.760 above all else is

00:20:50.660 what the hell are 0.84

00:20:51.420 they up to? 0.90

00:20:53.100 Right?

00:20:53.400 What's their aim?

00:20:55.800 And so when you

00:20:57.180 go to a movie,

00:20:57.740 that's what you do.

00:20:58.380 When you watch a

00:20:58.940 character,

00:20:59.300 character in a

00:21:01.400 role, you see him

00:21:03.440 in a variety of

00:21:05.000 different situations.

00:21:07.000 And you watch how

00:21:08.660 he structures his

00:21:09.680 attention, what he

00:21:11.000 pays attention to.

00:21:12.460 His attention is a

00:21:13.440 costly business.

00:21:15.100 And so people pay

00:21:16.080 attention to what

00:21:17.120 they value.

00:21:18.300 You watch what they

00:21:19.100 attend to.

00:21:20.720 And you watch how

00:21:22.460 they prioritize their

00:21:24.040 actions.

00:21:24.940 And from that you

00:21:25.820 derive an

00:21:26.780 understanding of

00:21:28.440 what's important

00:21:29.280 to them, as soon as

00:21:30.700 you understand what's

00:21:31.600 important to them,

00:21:32.600 you've got their

00:21:33.260 aim.

00:21:34.080 You've figured that

00:21:34.920 character out.

00:21:35.500 This is what you do

00:21:36.180 when you learn to

00:21:38.520 know someone.

00:21:39.540 What's their aim?

00:21:41.480 As soon as you know

00:21:43.460 their aim, you can see

00:21:47.000 the world through

00:21:47.500 their eyes.

00:21:48.840 You can see the same

00:21:50.160 objects they see, and the

00:21:52.520 objects take on the same

00:21:53.880 emotional significance.

00:21:55.520 And when you say, I come

00:21:56.420 to understand someone, what

00:21:57.500 you really mean is, oh, I

00:21:59.120 understand their aim, and

00:22:00.200 now I can aim at the same

00:22:02.420 thing, at least in

00:22:05.100 simulation, at least

00:22:06.200 fictionally, and I can come

00:22:07.800 to inhabit the same world of

00:22:09.680 perception and emotion that

00:22:11.640 they inhabit.

00:22:12.220 I can even guess at how

00:22:16.280 they might act and to what

00:22:17.380 they might attend in

00:22:18.280 situations I haven't seen

00:22:19.380 because now I know their

00:22:20.300 aim.

00:22:21.020 What's he up to?

00:22:21.980 That's what you're thinking

00:22:22.760 in a murder mystery or in a

00:22:24.040 thriller.

00:22:24.520 What's he up to?

00:22:25.380 What's he up to?

00:22:26.140 What's going to happen next?

00:22:27.960 And so, the plot of the

00:22:30.380 fiction is the aim of the

00:22:32.840 character across time.

00:22:34.260 The aim as the character

00:22:35.280 unfolds.

00:22:36.260 And that might involve the

00:22:37.260 transformation of his aims as

00:22:39.100 well.

00:22:39.740 Right?

00:22:39.880 And that would be the

00:22:40.840 transformation of a

00:22:41.860 character in a movie.

00:22:43.160 He aims at one thing and he

00:22:44.280 learns that that aim is off

00:22:46.280 in some manner.

00:22:47.140 Or he comes to a bitter and

00:22:49.380 dismal partial end and has

00:22:51.960 to switch course.

00:22:53.100 And you want to see people

00:22:54.140 transform their aims.

00:22:55.700 That's character development.

00:23:00.240 We see the world through a

00:23:01.560 story.

00:23:04.680 The world's objects reveal

00:23:07.560 themselves in relationship to

00:23:09.400 our aim.

00:23:09.880 The landscape of emotion

00:23:14.220 presents itself as markers on

00:23:17.120 the pathway to our aim.

00:23:18.860 The world reveals itself in

00:23:20.360 accordance with our aim.

00:23:21.600 That's how perception works.

00:23:23.380 That's a hell of a thing to

00:23:24.500 learn.

00:23:25.660 Because if the world, for

00:23:26.740 example, appears to you only

00:23:29.060 as thorn-bearing obstacles,

00:23:32.580 right?

00:23:32.900 If you feel that everything's

00:23:34.060 arrayed against you and there's

00:23:35.240 no pathway forward, if you feel

00:23:37.000 that you're surrounded by foes and

00:23:39.080 obstacles instead of walking the

00:23:42.240 golden pathway accompanied by

00:23:44.580 allies with the world on your

00:23:46.640 side, you might ask yourself

00:23:49.320 whether or not your aim is wrong.

00:23:52.080 And so, the world lays itself out in

00:23:57.860 accordance with our aim.

00:23:59.280 We go, we produce fiction, we generate

00:24:06.120 fiction, we live in a fictional

00:24:08.700 landscape because we want to get our

00:24:12.060 aim right.

00:24:13.020 We read stories, we watch movies, we go

00:24:16.660 to plays, we talk to each other because we

00:24:19.260 want to get our aim right.

00:24:20.160 We want to find the place we should go

00:24:23.100 and we want to learn how to get there

00:24:24.340 efficiently.

00:24:25.640 And we're compelled by spirit and

00:24:29.800 instinct to establish the aim and follow

00:24:33.420 the path and to transform ourselves so

00:24:36.720 that our aim becomes ever more precise

00:24:40.060 and efficient and delivers us a world

00:24:44.460 that's ever more abundant and beautiful.

00:24:47.660 And that's all a function of aim.

00:24:52.860 Okay, so we live in a story.

00:24:54.840 Well then, as soon as you know that,

00:24:56.380 this is what the postmodernists figured

00:24:58.140 out, by the way.

00:24:59.880 This is why the literary critics have

00:25:03.140 become a dominant force in the culture

00:25:04.980 war.

00:25:06.280 The postmodernists were literary critics.

00:25:08.000 You think, well, there's nothing more

00:25:09.020 irrelevant than a literary critic.

00:25:10.620 Like, who the hell cares what an

00:25:12.160 intellectual thinks about a story?

00:25:14.340 I mean, of all the preposterous things

00:25:16.360 to be concerned about, that might top the

00:25:18.800 list.

00:25:19.300 Not if the story is the thing through

00:25:21.180 which you see the world.

00:25:22.460 If the story is the thing you see through

00:25:24.640 which you see the world, there's nothing

00:25:26.420 more powerful than a literary critic,

00:25:28.320 except perhaps an author.

00:25:30.780 And we wouldn't have a culture war right

00:25:33.200 now if the literary critic wasn't far

00:25:37.440 more powerful than anybody had possibly

00:25:39.200 imagined.

00:25:39.660 because the French intellectual literary

00:25:42.280 critics, known as the postmodernists,

00:25:44.700 have criticized the central story of the

00:25:48.340 West to death.

00:25:51.080 And that's why we have a culture war. 0.99

00:25:53.220 And it's no joke.

00:25:54.860 This is foundational.

00:25:56.360 There's no more serious conflict than that.

00:25:59.260 And you all can feel that.

00:26:00.440 That's why you're here.

00:26:01.480 You know that the world is shaking and

00:26:03.740 uncertain in a way that's new.

00:26:06.180 And the reason for that is the story

00:26:08.900 itself is under assault.

00:26:11.700 All right.

00:26:12.280 So let's wander through that a little bit.

00:26:15.600 You see the world through a story.

00:26:18.900 The rationalists or empiricists, even the

00:26:21.160 biologists, they might have an answer to

00:26:22.600 that.

00:26:22.840 They say, okay, fair enough.

00:26:23.880 You see the world through a story.

00:26:25.340 But the story is biologically determined

00:26:28.760 or socioculturally determined.

00:26:31.000 It's a story of sex.

00:26:33.040 That would be Freud.

00:26:33.860 Because for Freud and for Charles

00:26:35.780 Darwin, for that matter, for Richard

00:26:37.240 Dawkins, the famous atheist, to an

00:26:39.660 equal degree, the story, the aim is sex,

00:26:49.240 reproduction, and the story is predicated

00:26:53.500 on that aim.

00:26:55.300 Freud, Darwin, Dawkins.

00:26:57.760 The degenerate element of that is a descent

00:27:04.780 into a kind of hedonism.

00:27:07.040 Because if sex is the story, then why not 0.98

00:27:11.380 worship sex? 0.95

00:27:14.700 And some dispute that and say, no, the 0.98

00:27:18.600 central story isn't sex.

00:27:20.880 This would be the Marxists.

00:27:22.060 The central story is power.

00:27:28.800 That's the story that the universities tell

00:27:31.300 when they're not telling the story about sex.

00:27:34.740 It's all about power.

00:27:37.860 The essential human aim is domination,

00:27:43.640 oppression, victimization, exploitation.

00:27:46.640 The central theme of the family is a power dynamic.

00:27:53.840 The central theme of the relationship between men and women

00:27:56.460 is a power dynamic.

00:27:58.780 Marriage itself is a heteronormative, patriarchal

00:28:02.820 establishment of oppression that goes back to the dawn of time.

00:28:07.280 The nuclear family is the same thing.

00:28:11.460 Economic arrangements are nothing but power.

00:28:13.960 Friendships are nothing but power.

00:28:15.620 The landscape of human interaction is a dynamic of power.

00:28:21.300 Or sex.

00:28:22.860 Or both.

00:28:24.520 Or both fighting against one another.

00:28:28.260 Look, these are powerful ideas.

00:28:30.900 Why?

00:28:31.640 Well, obvious.

00:28:32.640 It's obvious.

00:28:33.440 Why?

00:28:33.740 I mean, first of all, without sex, there's no reproduction.

00:28:38.580 And without reproduction, there's no people.

00:28:42.820 And so the Darwinian, Freudian, Richard Dawkins, selfish gene claim is that,

00:28:49.360 well, what could it possibly be other than sex?

00:28:53.720 And the Marxists come running forward and say,

00:28:57.440 how about power?

00:29:00.140 And then the Marxists say, well, obviously it's power.

00:29:02.760 Because there's radical inequality in the world.

00:29:07.420 There's some who have and some who have not.

00:29:10.640 There's no reason to assume that property in the final analysis, let's say,

00:29:14.560 isn't a form of theft.

00:29:16.500 And everyone who has established themselves in some manner

00:29:19.440 has only done that by stealing from those who are powerless

00:29:24.440 and who have less everything they have

00:29:26.220 and accruing it to themselves.

00:29:27.380 And that's a credible claim for a variety of reasons.

00:29:31.260 The first most fundamental reason is that a minority of people 1.00

00:29:35.120 have all the success on any possible dimension of comparison.

00:29:39.580 It's a very small number of people who are radically attractive.

00:29:42.580 It's a very small number of people who are radically gifted in the visual arts, let's say.

00:29:47.260 It's a radically small percentage of people who are musicians.

00:29:50.200 A tiny percentage of the people have most of the money.

00:29:54.080 A tiny percentage of the people gather most of the attention.

00:29:58.840 It's a Pareto distribution.

00:30:00.540 And that's what Marx pointed on to.

00:30:02.200 The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

00:30:04.640 And there's real truth in that.

00:30:05.920 And there's truth in the claim that 0.97

00:30:07.360 people structure their relationships with power.

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00:31:23.760 And that some people who obtain success

00:31:26.920 do it as a consequence of exploitation.

00:31:29.060 And it's equally true that

00:31:30.520 when any human relationship deteriorates,

00:31:35.260 it tends to deteriorate in the relationship of power.

00:31:37.680 If your marriage starts to become shaky,

00:31:40.800 then you begin to exploit each other.

00:31:43.600 Use force.

00:31:45.320 You try to get your way.

00:31:46.520 You try to dominate.

00:31:48.080 It's the same within any family

00:31:49.860 that's deteriorating into a state of pathology.

00:31:52.400 It's the same in any organization.

00:31:54.280 We've seen huge states

00:31:55.520 deteriorate into the tyrannical use of power.

00:31:58.500 If you had to identify

00:32:00.260 a cardinal attribute of mankind,

00:32:04.440 power is a reasonable hypothesis.

00:32:12.660 But let's think about that for a minute.

00:32:15.280 So imagine that...

00:32:18.340 Well, imagine that it's sex

00:32:21.920 that is and should be the

00:32:23.960 complete story of mankind.

00:32:26.240 Well, what does that mean exactly?

00:32:28.060 What's a world organized on that basis?

00:32:31.580 What does a world organized on that basis look like?

00:32:35.060 Well, there's nothing more important than sex.

00:32:37.200 Well, how about immediate sexual gratification 0.98

00:32:39.120 whenever you want it? 0.93

00:32:40.840 How about immediate sexual gratification

00:32:43.100 as the archetype of hedonism?

00:32:46.320 How about immediate sexual gratification

00:32:48.460 whenever you want it,

00:32:49.520 regardless of what anyone else has to say about it?

00:32:52.600 Because if it's the story

00:32:53.960 and it's the fundamental story,

00:32:55.820 then what stops me from gaining access

00:32:59.940 to what I want right now

00:33:02.060 regardless of the cost to anyone else?

00:33:06.220 If there's nothing beyond that,

00:33:08.300 if only the naive believe

00:33:09.920 that there's anything noble about humanity

00:33:11.960 beyond the immediate demand of reproduction,

00:33:14.720 then what have you got to say

00:33:15.960 that's moral about sex?

00:33:17.100 And why the hell shouldn't everybody

00:33:18.660 just do exactly what they want

00:33:20.900 with whoever they want,

00:33:22.420 whenever they want,

00:33:23.480 all the time?

00:33:25.800 And with power,

00:33:30.040 you can make exactly the same argument.

00:33:32.120 And classical societies,

00:33:33.940 aristocratic societies,

00:33:35.740 militaristic and martial societies

00:33:37.700 are predicated on this idea.

00:33:39.720 If I can push you around,

00:33:41.600 all that indicates is that

00:33:45.380 I should push you around

00:33:47.020 because if you're so weak 0.94

00:33:48.240 that I can push you around, 0.60

00:33:50.040 you have absolutely no ground whatsoever

00:33:53.100 to stand on to oppose me.

00:33:56.460 Because if you were moral

00:33:57.760 by the traditions of power,

00:33:59.720 I wouldn't be able to push you around.

00:34:02.840 And so,

00:34:03.600 it's very difficult to argue out of that

00:34:05.820 from a rational perspective.

00:34:07.120 why doesn't might make right?

00:34:09.220 And why isn't it only the weak

00:34:11.200 who claim that that's wrong?

00:34:13.080 And why isn't it only that the weak

00:34:14.900 claim that that's wrong?

00:34:16.600 Not because they're moral,

00:34:17.900 but because they're weak.

00:34:19.140 That would certainly be

00:34:20.120 a spin-off on the Nietzschean notion

00:34:22.620 that will to power

00:34:23.680 constitutes the core of man.

00:34:26.960 And I would say,

00:34:28.400 up until the dawn of

00:34:29.780 Judeo-Christian ethic,

00:34:32.180 let's say,

00:34:33.440 power ruled.

00:34:35.040 And then we can imagine

00:34:36.600 what sort of world it's like

00:34:38.060 when power rules.

00:34:39.040 Well, we know what that world's like.

00:34:40.460 It's like,

00:34:42.020 pay attention to the strongest

00:34:43.360 or suffer the consequences.

00:34:47.500 Well, is there something beyond that?

00:34:51.460 That's not mere naivety.

00:34:56.160 What's,

00:34:57.000 if it isn't power that's the story,

00:34:59.220 and if it isn't sex

00:35:00.160 that's the story,

00:35:02.640 what's the story?

00:35:05.040 For the West,

00:35:07.760 the answer to that is

00:35:09.720 the library of the Bible.

00:35:14.160 That's the story.

00:35:15.800 It's the story

00:35:16.700 upon which the West is founded.

00:35:20.600 It's the story that

00:35:22.120 has arisen over thousands of years,

00:35:25.920 tens of thousands of years,

00:35:27.040 for that matter,

00:35:28.040 attempting to address the core issue

00:35:33.780 What's the fundamental story?

00:35:39.000 It's no mystery to

00:35:40.560 make the claim that

00:35:42.240 the claim of the biblical

00:35:44.420 library of stories,

00:35:46.280 because it is a library,

00:35:48.180 is that

00:35:48.740 it's the fundamental story.

00:35:52.120 All right, so

00:35:53.140 we live in a story.

00:35:56.320 we've identified the competitors,

00:35:59.740 power and sex. 0.99

00:36:02.000 What is it that's being expressed

00:36:03.740 in the biblical story?

00:36:05.000 Look, if you go to a movie,

00:36:06.500 you read a complex book,

00:36:08.820 you go to a sophisticated movie,

00:36:10.400 a sophisticated play,

00:36:11.340 a Shakespearean play,

00:36:12.800 or you read a sophisticated work of fiction,

00:36:15.280 you see a multi-dimensional characterization.

00:36:20.200 Right?

00:36:20.700 A comic book has a hero with one motive.

00:36:25.380 A sophisticated work of fiction

00:36:26.860 has a hero,

00:36:29.400 and perhaps an anti-hero,

00:36:30.920 with complex,

00:36:32.340 multi-dimensional motivations.

00:36:34.500 Whatever characterizes those

00:36:36.240 more realistic people

00:36:37.940 isn't reducible

00:36:40.200 to any single attribute.

00:36:41.920 And in a complicated work of fiction,

00:36:45.540 the author walks you through

00:36:47.520 a multi-dimensional characterization.

00:36:50.700 You see the same person,

00:36:52.360 the hero,

00:36:53.420 aiming upward,

00:36:54.500 the anti-hero or villain,

00:36:55.900 aiming downward.

00:36:56.900 You see that person

00:36:58.160 portrayed in multiple

00:36:59.440 different situations.

00:37:01.920 And as a,

00:37:02.380 and, and, and

00:37:03.220 pursuing

00:37:04.820 partial

00:37:06.340 reflections of their ultimate aim.

00:37:09.400 And in consequence of that,

00:37:11.020 you

00:37:12.020 learn to

00:37:13.840 understand and embody

00:37:15.300 that

00:37:16.640 complex of aims.

00:37:20.500 When you see a movie

00:37:21.660 and you watch the hero,

00:37:23.700 you're watching the hero

00:37:24.720 to learn how to act

00:37:25.940 like a hero.

00:37:27.540 When you're

00:37:28.340 watching a movie

00:37:29.460 and you watch the anti-hero

00:37:30.780 or the villain,

00:37:31.620 you're watching

00:37:32.280 the movie

00:37:33.140 to learn how

00:37:34.040 not to fail

00:37:34.960 catastrophically

00:37:36.000 and land in hell 0.96

00:37:37.140 while taking everyone else 0.99

00:37:39.300 along with you.

00:37:40.060 is it reducible

00:37:43.020 to something as simple

00:37:46.080 as power

00:37:47.360 or sex?

00:37:49.540 Not if it's not

00:37:50.520 a comic book.

00:37:51.740 You need a

00:37:52.540 multi-dimensional

00:37:53.220 characterization.

00:37:54.920 All right.

00:37:56.600 The biblical corpus

00:37:58.000 provides a

00:37:58.680 multi-dimensional

00:37:59.560 characterization

00:38:00.560 of the fundamental

00:38:01.840 aim of

00:38:03.300 man and

00:38:05.020 cosmos.

00:38:05.640 that's the claim

00:38:07.380 of the book.

00:38:08.060 So I'm going to walk you

00:38:08.940 through some of the stories

00:38:09.840 and show you

00:38:11.620 what's being revealed.

00:38:14.920 What's being revealed

00:38:15.960 is the proper object

00:38:17.360 of worship.

00:38:18.460 Okay.

00:38:18.800 So what does that mean?

00:38:19.640 The proper object

00:38:20.600 of celebration.

00:38:21.920 The aim towards

00:38:23.820 which all sacrifices

00:38:25.140 and work

00:38:25.740 are to be directed.

00:38:26.640 that which should be

00:38:28.480 held in the highest

00:38:29.360 regard.

00:38:30.600 That which should be

00:38:31.780 imitated in ritual

00:38:33.900 and admiration.

00:38:36.500 Okay.

00:38:36.740 So that's the

00:38:37.360 that's the idea.

00:38:40.760 Admiration in the same way

00:38:42.180 that a small child

00:38:43.360 who

00:38:43.760 hero worships

00:38:45.640 worships

00:38:46.280 the boy down the street

00:38:50.460 who's

00:38:51.060 the baseball star

00:38:53.060 because that boy

00:38:55.240 portrays a pattern

00:38:58.220 of skill

00:38:58.840 and attention

00:38:59.560 that

00:39:00.960 is the next

00:39:02.240 appropriate

00:39:02.840 developmental step

00:39:04.060 for the hero

00:39:04.680 worshiping child.

00:39:06.320 That's a recreation

00:39:07.500 of the religious

00:39:08.580 impulse.

00:39:10.820 The impulse to look up

00:39:11.900 admire and imitate.

00:39:13.800 The question being

00:39:14.660 what to what should we

00:39:15.980 address our attention

00:39:17.180 upward looking

00:39:18.160 admire and imitate.

00:39:22.540 That

00:39:23.340 highest possible

00:39:25.340 object of

00:39:27.220 apprehension

00:39:28.560 and admiration

00:39:29.280 is by definition

00:39:31.920 God.

00:39:34.680 It's a definition.

00:39:37.240 It's

00:39:37.760 the highest aim

00:39:39.800 that lurks

00:39:40.340 behind all proximal aims.

00:39:42.280 That's a good way

00:39:42.920 of thinking about it.

00:39:43.740 It's the upward aim

00:39:44.820 as such.

00:39:46.540 Alright.

00:39:47.260 How do you bring

00:39:48.140 that down to earth?

00:39:49.200 Well let's start

00:39:49.740 with Genesis 1.

00:39:51.760 There's a characterization

00:39:52.620 of God and man

00:39:53.780 in Genesis 1.

00:39:57.620 The

00:39:58.140 story opens

00:40:00.020 at the dawn of time.

00:40:01.660 At the beginning

00:40:02.560 of things.

00:40:03.180 That's not exactly

00:40:04.740 the beginning of time.

00:40:05.980 That's usually how

00:40:06.660 it's read

00:40:07.020 but it's more complex

00:40:07.900 than that.

00:40:08.300 It's not only

00:40:09.880 the beginning

00:40:11.060 of time

00:40:11.780 in the linear sense

00:40:13.000 but it's the beginning

00:40:14.200 of all things

00:40:15.000 that begin.

00:40:16.180 This is what happens

00:40:16.980 every time something

00:40:18.100 begins.

00:40:18.980 This is what happens

00:40:19.620 every time

00:40:20.320 something new

00:40:21.400 makes its entry

00:40:22.500 into the world.

00:40:23.760 It's the continual

00:40:25.080 beginning

00:40:25.760 that continually

00:40:27.080 unfolds

00:40:28.040 that happened

00:40:28.960 and is happening

00:40:30.120 now

00:40:30.420 and will always

00:40:31.780 happen.

00:40:32.120 It's the pattern

00:40:34.060 of

00:40:34.380 the emergence

00:40:36.560 of order

00:40:37.280 out of chaos

00:40:38.460 that

00:40:39.340 makes itself

00:40:40.540 manifest

00:40:41.320 in the form

00:40:45.720 of your life.

00:40:48.620 How is the stage

00:40:49.940 set?

00:40:50.880 The spirit

00:40:51.480 of God

00:40:52.100 hovers

00:40:55.560 over the water

00:40:56.380 over the deep.

00:40:59.140 You hear

00:41:00.140 that

00:41:00.520 in the Judeo-Christian

00:41:03.200 tradition

00:41:04.200 God

00:41:05.060 engenders 1.00

00:41:07.240 the world

00:41:07.720 ex nihilo

00:41:08.600 out of nothing.

00:41:10.040 That's not how

00:41:10.700 the story

00:41:11.080 sets itself up.

00:41:12.580 It sets itself up

00:41:13.800 with the spirit

00:41:14.360 of God

00:41:14.900 hovering above

00:41:16.560 the waters

00:41:17.120 but it's not

00:41:18.060 water.

00:41:19.100 That's not the word.

00:41:20.320 Water is one

00:41:20.980 of the symbolic

00:41:21.720 images

00:41:24.240 attempting

00:41:25.420 to make

00:41:26.020 what's being

00:41:27.580 described

00:41:28.060 clear

00:41:28.560 using

00:41:30.400 a sequence

00:41:31.600 of complex

00:41:32.240 metaphors.

00:41:33.400 The word

00:41:33.900 for the water

00:41:35.580 over which

00:41:36.320 the spirit

00:41:36.820 of God

00:41:37.160 hovers

00:41:37.500 is

00:41:37.760 tohu

00:41:38.220 vabohu

00:41:38.920 or tehom

00:41:39.920 and it

00:41:40.580 means

00:41:41.000 a lot

00:41:41.860 of things.

00:41:43.080 It means

00:41:43.560 the

00:41:45.880 dragon

00:41:47.480 that lives

00:41:48.020 at the bottom

00:41:48.560 of the deepest

00:41:49.220 well.

00:41:50.400 It means

00:41:51.060 the

00:41:51.880 unplumbable

00:41:53.220 depths

00:41:53.680 of the

00:41:54.400 most

00:41:55.480 abysmal

00:41:56.040 ocean.

00:41:57.020 It means

00:41:57.600 the water

00:41:58.380 that brings

00:41:58.920 forth

00:41:59.280 life.

00:42:00.380 It means

00:42:00.760 the

00:42:01.040 infinite

00:42:04.560 well

00:42:05.020 of

00:42:05.200 possibility

00:42:06.020 itself.

00:42:07.880 It means

00:42:08.620 the confusion

00:42:10.220 that reigns

00:42:11.100 when your

00:42:11.500 world

00:42:11.940 falls apart.

00:42:14.160 It means

00:42:15.340 the

00:42:16.380 unstructured

00:42:18.840 day

00:42:20.120 that

00:42:20.900 makes

00:42:21.880 itself

00:42:22.260 manifest

00:42:22.740 when you

00:42:23.860 wake up.

00:42:24.420 it means

00:42:26.220 all of

00:42:26.600 that.

00:42:27.240 It means

00:42:27.900 the dragon

00:42:29.160 that the

00:42:29.840 archaic

00:42:30.520 god

00:42:31.020 sliced 0.98

00:42:31.920 into pieces

00:42:32.580 and made

00:42:33.020 the world

00:42:33.400 from.

00:42:34.580 It means

00:42:35.420 it's the

00:42:36.500 hydra

00:42:36.920 that Hercules

00:42:37.660 defeats

00:42:38.940 to

00:42:39.700 form the

00:42:40.840 world.

00:42:41.880 It's all

00:42:42.600 of that.

00:42:43.980 So what

00:42:44.760 does that

00:42:45.100 mean?

00:42:46.860 It means

00:42:47.740 that

00:42:48.080 the spirit

00:42:49.420 of being

00:42:49.960 and becoming

00:42:50.680 generates

00:42:51.600 the world

00:42:52.180 from

00:42:52.480 possibility.

00:42:53.080 possibility.

00:42:54.380 What does

00:42:55.100 that mean?

00:42:56.140 That's what

00:42:56.600 your consciousness

00:42:57.200 does.

00:42:58.560 That's what

00:42:59.160 you do.

00:43:00.280 See,

00:43:00.500 you think

00:43:00.940 you're

00:43:01.160 surrounded

00:43:01.520 by a

00:43:01.940 world

00:43:02.180 of

00:43:02.340 objects

00:43:02.720 that

00:43:02.960 you

00:43:03.120 manipulate

00:43:03.660 in

00:43:03.940 a

00:43:04.060 robotic

00:43:04.400 fashion,

00:43:05.380 but

00:43:05.580 you're

00:43:06.140 not

00:43:06.360 concerned

00:43:06.940 with

00:43:07.340 the

00:43:07.960 objects

00:43:08.480 that

00:43:08.740 are

00:43:08.900 static.

00:43:09.940 You're

00:43:10.360 concerned

00:43:10.860 with

00:43:11.140 what

00:43:11.360 you

00:43:11.600 can

00:43:11.840 dynamically

00:43:12.420 transform.

00:43:13.880 When

00:43:14.300 you

00:43:14.520 wake

00:43:14.760 up

00:43:14.940 in

00:43:15.040 the

00:43:15.140 morning,

00:43:15.460 what

00:43:15.620 presents

00:43:16.080 itself

00:43:16.520 to

00:43:16.760 you

00:43:16.980 is

00:43:17.760 a

00:43:19.000 field

00:43:19.500 of

00:43:19.760 indeterminate

00:43:20.700 opportunity.

00:43:21.400 That's

00:43:23.200 why

00:43:23.360 you're

00:43:23.640 worried

00:43:24.180 or

00:43:25.860 perhaps

00:43:26.340 excited

00:43:26.920 because

00:43:27.560 you have

00:43:27.880 something

00:43:28.160 to

00:43:28.380 grapple

00:43:28.780 with

00:43:29.020 that

00:43:29.200 hasn't

00:43:29.680 yet

00:43:29.960 come

00:43:30.260 into

00:43:30.540 being.

00:43:31.700 The

00:43:32.140 possibilities

00:43:32.700 of the

00:43:33.040 day,

00:43:33.320 and you

00:43:33.460 might

00:43:33.600 think,

00:43:33.900 oh my

00:43:34.160 God,

00:43:34.700 I have

00:43:35.380 so many

00:43:35.780 things

00:43:36.020 to do,

00:43:36.580 I'm

00:43:36.860 overwhelmed,

00:43:38.020 it's

00:43:38.280 too much.

00:43:39.140 Well,

00:43:39.300 that's the

00:43:39.760 tohu

00:43:40.140 vabohu,

00:43:40.880 that's the

00:43:41.320 chaos and

00:43:41.960 confusion,

00:43:42.920 that's a

00:43:43.400 plethora

00:43:44.040 of

00:43:44.300 possibility.

00:43:45.240 You're

00:43:45.540 thinking,

00:43:46.020 oh my

00:43:46.480 God,

00:43:46.960 how many

00:43:47.400 ways are

00:43:48.100 there for

00:43:48.500 things to

00:43:49.080 go wrong?

00:43:49.740 Well,

00:43:50.380 that's the

00:43:50.820 multi-headed

00:43:51.420 serpent that

00:43:52.200 the hero

00:43:52.600 always

00:43:53.120 confronts.

00:43:55.220 And what

00:43:55.920 do you

00:43:56.140 have to

00:43:56.580 do with

00:43:56.940 that?

00:43:57.200 It's like,

00:43:57.540 well,

00:43:58.840 are you

00:44:00.460 going to

00:44:00.780 establish the

00:44:01.640 order that's

00:44:02.300 good in

00:44:03.440 the course

00:44:03.820 of the

00:44:04.100 day?

00:44:04.540 Because that's

00:44:05.260 what you're

00:44:05.560 called upon

00:44:06.060 to do.

00:44:06.480 And it's

00:44:07.260 your

00:44:07.620 recreation of

00:44:09.420 what God

00:44:09.980 himself does

00:44:10.840 at the

00:44:11.160 beginning of

00:44:11.700 time that

00:44:12.720 constitutes the

00:44:14.440 action of

00:44:15.300 your conscious

00:44:15.980 on the

00:44:16.560 possibility that's

00:44:17.640 in front of

00:44:18.500 you.

00:44:19.420 You have

00:44:20.200 a microcosm

00:44:22.200 of plenitude

00:44:24.060 and possibility

00:44:25.160 right in front

00:44:26.620 of you at

00:44:27.060 any moment

00:44:27.840 that you can

00:44:29.180 wrestle into

00:44:30.260 order if

00:44:31.600 your aim is

00:44:32.360 right.

00:44:34.080 The process

00:44:36.280 that God

00:44:37.880 relies on to

00:44:39.240 extract the

00:44:41.520 cosmos, the

00:44:42.660 order that's

00:44:43.300 good, from

00:44:44.520 the well of

00:44:46.600 unformed

00:44:47.640 possibility,

00:44:48.500 is the

00:44:50.280 word, it's

00:44:50.960 the logos.

00:44:52.180 What does

00:44:52.580 that mean?

00:44:57.880 How much 0.79

00:44:58.580 hell can you 0.98

00:44:59.100 bring into 0.81

00:44:59.460 being by

00:44:59.940 saying the

00:45:00.340 wrong words

00:45:00.800 to your

00:45:01.080 wife?

00:45:04.620 Right, now

00:45:05.280 your wife is

00:45:05.960 who she is,

00:45:06.740 but she's 0.97

00:45:07.040 also who she

00:45:07.680 could become,

00:45:08.540 as you've no

00:45:09.560 doubt noticed

00:45:10.180 many times.

00:45:11.480 And you

00:45:12.700 can extract

00:45:13.720 out something

00:45:15.940 good or

00:45:16.500 something terrible

00:45:17.460 from the

00:45:18.480 possibility she

00:45:19.380 represents with

00:45:21.020 the cautious

00:45:22.700 and loving

00:45:23.620 application of

00:45:24.760 your words or

00:45:25.640 with the

00:45:26.080 careful and

00:45:26.680 prideful and

00:45:28.080 dismissive

00:45:28.640 application of

00:45:29.420 your words.

00:45:29.900 and the

00:45:30.560 world you

00:45:30.960 live in

00:45:31.540 will be

00:45:33.620 radically

00:45:34.020 different

00:45:34.620 depending on

00:45:36.320 which of

00:45:36.620 those two

00:45:36.980 approaches you

00:45:37.580 apply.

00:45:38.360 And that

00:45:38.740 will be

00:45:39.000 exactly the

00:45:39.740 same with

00:45:40.980 anyone else

00:45:41.540 you talk to

00:45:42.200 and how you

00:45:42.780 treat yourself

00:45:43.480 and how you

00:45:44.260 interact with

00:45:44.840 the world

00:45:45.260 as such.

00:45:46.260 because there's

00:45:47.540 a provision

00:45:51.440 of possibility

00:45:52.640 that you're

00:45:55.060 offered as a

00:45:55.800 participant in

00:45:57.780 the process of

00:45:58.620 creation that

00:46:00.020 you formulate in

00:46:01.040 accordance with

00:46:01.640 your aim.

00:46:03.140 What's the

00:46:03.960 insistence in

00:46:05.080 Genesis 1?

00:46:07.560 Aim up with

00:46:08.620 love.

00:46:10.820 So if you

00:46:11.980 want to

00:46:12.280 establish the

00:46:14.260 paradise of your

00:46:15.100 household in

00:46:16.620 relationship to

00:46:17.420 your wife and

00:46:18.080 your children,

00:46:19.680 you aim at

00:46:21.020 what's best for

00:46:23.260 the best in

00:46:23.960 them.

00:46:25.040 You offer

00:46:25.980 them the

00:46:27.220 security that

00:46:27.920 you can

00:46:28.200 imagine.

00:46:29.220 That's the

00:46:29.920 walls of the

00:46:30.620 walled garden.

00:46:32.000 And you

00:46:32.600 present to

00:46:34.560 them the

00:46:35.860 challenge that

00:46:36.840 allows them to

00:46:39.500 unfold and

00:46:40.500 develop optimally.

00:46:42.700 And you do

00:46:43.700 that appropriately

00:46:44.900 if you're

00:46:46.140 aiming at

00:46:46.620 what's best,

00:46:48.100 what's

00:46:48.420 highest.

00:46:49.540 And that's

00:46:51.160 the spirit of

00:46:52.260 God that

00:46:52.880 makes itself

00:46:53.800 manifest on

00:46:55.280 the waters of

00:46:55.940 possibility.

00:46:57.320 That's the

00:46:58.440 embodiment,

00:46:59.860 the source,

00:47:01.660 the initial

00:47:02.460 source, and the

00:47:03.320 spirit of

00:47:04.280 upward aiming

00:47:06.520 ultimate love.

00:47:07.340 you can

00:47:10.960 understand this

00:47:11.740 by understanding

00:47:12.640 what sort

00:47:13.280 of walled

00:47:16.500 garden you

00:47:16.940 produce in

00:47:17.500 your own

00:47:18.540 household with

00:47:19.300 your aim.

00:47:22.460 God

00:47:23.100 wrestles with

00:47:27.700 the possibility

00:47:29.420 that's not yet

00:47:31.140 manifest and

00:47:32.220 creates the

00:47:33.520 cosmic order as

00:47:34.420 consequence in

00:47:35.320 sequence.

00:47:37.980 Creating the

00:47:38.800 fundamental

00:47:39.260 divisions to

00:47:40.000 begin with.

00:47:40.820 The separation

00:47:41.600 of light and

00:47:42.460 darkness, that's

00:47:43.800 the phenomenology of

00:47:44.840 day and night, the

00:47:45.780 separation of the

00:47:46.560 land from the

00:47:47.180 waters, the

00:47:48.220 establishment of

00:47:49.060 the dome of the

00:47:49.860 sky over the

00:47:51.220 disk of the

00:47:51.920 earth, populates

00:47:54.620 the world with

00:47:56.320 its created

00:47:57.860 beings, and on

00:48:00.840 the sixth day

00:48:01.720 produces man, and

00:48:05.940 says in his

00:48:08.720 own image.

00:48:11.060 So now we

00:48:12.080 have a

00:48:12.340 characterization of

00:48:13.380 God who's the

00:48:15.380 dynamic process

00:48:17.000 that gives rise

00:48:18.160 to order from

00:48:19.940 possibility itself

00:48:22.340 in keeping with

00:48:24.000 the highest

00:48:24.460 possible aim, and

00:48:26.080 we have a

00:48:26.520 characterization of

00:48:27.500 the human being

00:48:28.340 as a microcosm of

00:48:29.600 that process.

00:48:32.360 The notion

00:48:33.880 that each of

00:48:35.220 us has a

00:48:37.260 worth that's

00:48:38.220 transcendental

00:48:40.180 and not given

00:48:42.040 by the state, not

00:48:43.380 given by yourself, not

00:48:44.480 given by other

00:48:45.140 individuals, is

00:48:46.720 predicated on

00:48:48.720 that image.

00:48:51.320 I mean that

00:48:51.880 historically, and I

00:48:52.760 mean it

00:48:52.980 conceptually.

00:48:54.480 The notion

00:48:54.980 is that, one

00:48:57.820 of the notions

00:48:58.460 is that the

00:48:59.060 state itself

00:49:00.120 has to grant

00:49:02.440 to you

00:49:02.980 the worth

00:49:04.440 of

00:49:04.920 someone

00:49:07.260 created in

00:49:08.020 the image

00:49:08.420 of the

00:49:09.760 creator himself

00:49:10.740 in order

00:49:11.820 even for

00:49:13.100 the state

00:49:13.920 to exist,

00:49:15.700 maintain itself,

00:49:16.660 and transform.

00:49:18.080 That the

00:49:18.840 state itself

00:49:19.520 cannot function

00:49:20.580 unless it

00:49:22.080 establishes a

00:49:25.300 sacred boundary

00:49:26.160 between its

00:49:26.920 operations

00:49:27.620 and the

00:49:28.660 operation of

00:49:29.500 the psyche,

00:49:31.420 the human

00:49:31.780 psyche, the

00:49:32.420 human spirit

00:49:33.060 that's a

00:49:33.880 manifestation of

00:49:35.000 the God

00:49:35.940 who generates

00:49:36.700 the order

00:49:37.120 that's good

00:49:37.600 from possibility.

00:49:39.380 And you

00:49:39.920 might ask,

00:49:41.420 well who

00:49:42.340 believes that?

00:49:43.640 And I

00:49:43.940 would say,

00:49:45.060 try talking

00:49:46.280 to one

00:49:46.940 person

00:49:47.540 once

00:49:48.560 without

00:49:49.880 believing that

00:49:50.800 and see

00:49:52.100 how it

00:49:52.500 goes.

00:49:53.640 We call to

00:49:54.460 each other

00:49:54.860 all the

00:49:55.140 time,

00:49:55.460 especially in

00:49:56.020 our intimate

00:49:56.400 relationships,

00:49:57.720 to be

00:49:58.460 treated as

00:49:59.420 if we

00:50:00.340 are the

00:50:01.300 locus of

00:50:02.500 value.

00:50:03.260 And if

00:50:05.180 you treat

00:50:05.600 people that

00:50:06.180 way,

00:50:07.040 if you

00:50:07.800 regard them

00:50:08.460 that way,

00:50:08.820 if you

00:50:09.020 perceive them

00:50:09.660 that way,

00:50:10.360 if you

00:50:10.800 encourage them

00:50:11.620 in that

00:50:12.260 pathway of

00:50:12.800 development,

00:50:14.660 everything

00:50:18.280 in your

00:50:19.940 interactions

00:50:20.780 with human

00:50:21.380 beings will

00:50:21.940 open itself

00:50:22.840 up to you

00:50:23.420 and fill

00:50:24.800 your life

00:50:25.260 with abundance.

00:50:26.900 Everyone

00:50:27.420 wants to be

00:50:28.080 treated that

00:50:28.580 way.

00:50:29.620 And the

00:50:29.960 reason for

00:50:30.360 that is

00:50:30.820 it's in

00:50:32.780 keeping with

00:50:33.260 our

00:50:33.440 essential

00:50:33.760 nature.

00:50:35.440 And that

00:50:35.900 that

00:50:37.140 hospitable,

00:50:38.760 welcoming,

00:50:39.460 encouraging,

00:50:41.860 upward aiming,

00:50:43.360 loving

00:50:43.680 treatment

00:50:44.420 is the

00:50:46.120 aim

00:50:48.460 and attitude

00:50:49.840 upon which

00:50:50.680 the

00:50:53.480 soul,

00:50:54.320 the

00:50:54.540 soul,

00:50:56.900 the community

00:50:57.460 and the

00:50:58.660 natural

00:50:59.020 order itself

00:50:59.900 depends for

00:51:01.300 its

00:51:01.460 integrity.

00:51:02.780 your

00:51:03.500 country

00:51:04.000 is

00:51:04.840 predicated

00:51:05.500 on that

00:51:05.940 notion.

00:51:06.920 The idea

00:51:07.380 that each

00:51:07.960 of you

00:51:08.360 is endowed

00:51:09.740 with

00:51:11.120 inalienable

00:51:11.720 rights

00:51:12.120 and their

00:51:13.600 requisite

00:51:14.140 responsibilities

00:51:15.040 is a

00:51:15.860 direct

00:51:16.340 reflection

00:51:17.360 of that

00:51:18.240 conceptualization.

00:51:19.320 And one

00:51:20.120 of the

00:51:20.360 things you

00:51:20.740 might

00:51:21.040 frequently

00:51:22.080 remind

00:51:22.620 yourself

00:51:23.120 of

00:51:24.340 is the

00:51:24.780 fact

00:51:25.040 that

00:51:25.400 your

00:51:26.840 country

00:51:27.160 wouldn't

00:51:27.460 be what

00:51:27.900 it is

00:51:28.400 which

00:51:29.040 is the

00:51:29.380 closest

00:51:29.800 approximation

00:51:30.700 to a

00:51:31.420 shining

00:51:31.760 city

00:51:32.760 on the

00:51:33.120 hill

00:51:33.400 that's

00:51:34.160 been

00:51:34.380 established

00:51:35.000 so far

00:51:35.900 in the

00:51:36.660 travail of

00:51:37.380 mankind

00:51:37.820 without that

00:51:38.880 fundamental

00:51:39.540 conception.

00:51:41.120 Right?

00:51:41.600 So then

00:51:44.980 you might

00:51:47.000 say well

00:51:47.460 is it

00:51:47.760 true?

00:51:48.240 And the

00:51:48.460 answer is

00:51:49.040 it's not

00:51:51.280 hell.

00:51:52.820 I mean

00:51:53.780 that because

00:51:55.020 lots of

00:51:55.560 countries are

00:51:56.180 hell and 0.99

00:51:57.820 they're hell

00:51:58.200 in a way

00:51:58.600 that opens

00:51:59.920 up into

00:52:00.580 an abyss

00:52:01.280 and has

00:52:02.480 the possibility

00:52:03.220 of a deeper

00:52:03.840 abyss

00:52:04.360 waiting latent

00:52:06.060 within it

00:52:06.680 which will

00:52:07.120 open up

00:52:07.700 with the

00:52:08.140 possibility

00:52:08.680 of a deeper

00:52:09.340 abyss

00:52:09.760 within that

00:52:10.820 and that's

00:52:11.960 what happens

00:52:12.540 when that

00:52:13.080 fundamental

00:52:13.800 characterization

00:52:15.200 is overthrown

00:52:17.920 in a

00:52:18.220 revolutionary

00:52:18.640 manner

00:52:19.220 or carelessly

00:52:20.320 abandoned

00:52:20.860 and we

00:52:21.740 saw that

00:52:22.380 for all of

00:52:23.380 us who

00:52:23.700 are non-believers 0.52

00:52:24.560 and no

00:52:25.520 longer

00:52:25.940 conceptualize

00:52:27.960 the metaphysical

00:52:29.700 hell is

00:52:30.180 real

00:52:30.520 we saw

00:52:31.440 the metaphysical

00:52:32.980 hell realized

00:52:34.060 in the 20th

00:52:34.800 century

00:52:35.140 many times

00:52:36.140 in case

00:52:37.440 anyone

00:52:37.960 having

00:52:40.980 abandoned

00:52:41.460 their

00:52:41.960 metaphysical

00:52:42.900 presuppositions

00:52:43.820 was so

00:52:45.540 blind that

00:52:46.220 only an

00:52:46.760 object lesson

00:52:47.480 would suffice

00:52:48.320 right

00:52:49.900 Nazi

00:52:50.560 Germany

00:52:51.080 the Soviet

00:52:53.400 Union under

00:52:54.160 Stalin 0.57

00:52:54.660 the Chinese

00:52:56.380 Communist Party

00:52:57.620 under Mao

00:52:58.220 if that

00:53:00.260 isn't close

00:53:00.820 enough to

00:53:01.320 hell 1.00

00:53:01.620 for you 0.96

00:53:02.560 then I

00:53:04.200 would say

00:53:04.740 you should

00:53:05.520 pray that

00:53:06.120 you aren't

00:53:07.380 introduced

00:53:07.840 to something

00:53:09.020 even worse

00:53:09.780 for the

00:53:11.480 purposes of

00:53:12.200 convincing you

00:53:13.140 about what's

00:53:14.120 real

00:53:14.460 in the

00:53:18.120 second

00:53:18.540 God

00:53:24.500 announces

00:53:24.920 two things

00:53:25.520 once he

00:53:25.960 three things

00:53:26.660 four things

00:53:27.340 once he

00:53:27.740 creates man

00:53:28.360 he says

00:53:28.820 man is to

00:53:30.700 tend the

00:53:31.120 garden

00:53:31.420 that's his

00:53:32.600 purpose

00:53:32.980 why a

00:53:34.500 garden

00:53:34.880 it's a

00:53:35.780 walled

00:53:36.120 garden

00:53:36.340 actually

00:53:36.700 because that's

00:53:37.160 what paradise

00:53:37.660 means

00:53:38.220 walled

00:53:38.720 garden

00:53:38.960 why a

00:53:39.680 walled

00:53:40.000 garden

00:53:40.280 well a

00:53:40.740 garden is a

00:53:41.280 place of

00:53:41.660 nature

00:53:42.020 obviously

00:53:43.360 and walls

00:53:44.600 are a place

00:53:45.080 of culture

00:53:45.660 and a

00:53:46.360 walled

00:53:46.700 garden is a

00:53:47.260 place of

00:53:47.640 nature

00:53:48.040 encapsulated

00:53:50.700 in a manageable

00:53:51.460 manner

00:53:51.960 by the walls

00:53:53.360 of culture

00:53:53.820 that's what your

00:53:54.600 backyard is

00:53:55.460 it's a yard

00:53:57.200 it's nature

00:53:57.840 it has walls

00:53:59.180 the walls are

00:54:00.020 culture

00:54:00.420 the walls

00:54:01.520 you could

00:54:01.860 think of

00:54:02.160 as physical

00:54:02.820 as physical

00:54:05.360 entities

00:54:06.140 as objects

00:54:06.800 but your

00:54:07.800 lawn has

00:54:09.140 borders

00:54:09.500 if you don't

00:54:10.020 have a

00:54:10.340 fence

00:54:10.720 and your

00:54:12.180 neighbors know

00:54:12.680 where the

00:54:12.920 borders are

00:54:13.600 and where

00:54:14.080 are the

00:54:14.260 borders

00:54:14.640 well they're

00:54:15.280 in the

00:54:15.500 imagination

00:54:15.880 of your

00:54:16.460 neighbors 0.97

00:54:16.840 I'm dead

00:54:18.920 serious about

00:54:19.620 that

00:54:19.940 the walls

00:54:21.160 it's so funny

00:54:21.880 because you'll

00:54:22.240 see people

00:54:22.740 in the border

00:54:23.240 between Canada

00:54:23.980 and the

00:54:24.220 United States

00:54:24.820 they'll get

00:54:26.120 out and

00:54:26.380 they'll step

00:54:26.880 across the

00:54:27.440 border

00:54:27.760 it's like

00:54:28.920 as if

00:54:30.760 it's an

00:54:31.100 object

00:54:31.540 as if

00:54:32.440 it's an

00:54:32.760 entity

00:54:33.120 that's

00:54:33.500 there

00:54:33.860 on the

00:54:34.960 ground

00:54:35.280 and people

00:54:35.900 know that

00:54:36.360 that's magic

00:54:37.080 in some

00:54:37.560 sense

00:54:37.840 because

00:54:38.140 the grass

00:54:39.500 in Canada

00:54:42.280 is only

00:54:42.940 slightly

00:54:43.500 less healthy

00:54:44.960 than the grass

00:54:45.660 in the United

00:54:46.160 States

00:54:46.680 let's say

00:54:47.940 it's easy

00:54:51.800 to concretize

00:54:52.600 that

00:54:52.840 but the

00:54:53.320 idea of a

00:54:54.920 walled off

00:54:55.420 space

00:54:56.040 in a

00:54:56.340 communal

00:54:56.660 society

00:54:57.300 is a

00:54:58.400 social

00:54:58.660 agreement

00:54:59.080 you have

00:55:00.380 your domain

00:55:00.960 your house

00:55:01.540 your garden

00:55:02.880 your backyard

00:55:03.480 that's enough

00:55:04.960 cosmos for you

00:55:06.020 to set right

00:55:06.780 and perhaps

00:55:07.720 if you're

00:55:08.080 competent enough

00:55:08.760 to do more

00:55:09.400 you'll expand

00:55:11.160 your garden

00:55:12.520 so that you

00:55:13.400 have more

00:55:13.720 to tend

00:55:14.220 but you

00:55:15.560 start with

00:55:16.380 a walled

00:55:18.460 garden of

00:55:18.860 some

00:55:19.240 size

00:55:21.340 and if you

00:55:22.240 tend it

00:55:22.660 properly

00:55:23.040 then the

00:55:23.900 promise is

00:55:24.520 that

00:55:24.820 as your

00:55:26.480 competence

00:55:26.900 grows

00:55:27.320 so will

00:55:27.860 your

00:55:28.220 dominion

00:55:29.220 man

00:55:32.420 sent

00:55:32.820 to

00:55:33.100 tend

00:55:33.340 the

00:55:33.500 garden

00:55:33.840 and to

00:55:35.000 name

00:55:35.420 everything

00:55:36.220 that's

00:55:36.500 in it

00:55:36.800 this is

00:55:37.440 Adam

00:55:37.720 what does

00:55:38.700 that mean

00:55:39.580 well it's

00:55:40.480 the logos

00:55:41.100 again

00:55:41.540 it's

00:55:41.840 a

00:55:42.000 re-representation

00:55:43.680 of the

00:55:44.200 creative

00:55:45.200 spirit

00:55:45.640 of God

00:55:46.200 that makes

00:55:47.140 itself

00:55:47.500 manifest

00:55:47.980 when

00:55:49.020 time

00:55:49.840 begins

00:55:50.240 and when

00:55:50.620 new things

00:55:51.160 come into

00:55:51.600 being

00:55:51.880 our

00:55:52.960 ability

00:55:53.340 to

00:55:53.600 name

00:55:53.940 our

00:55:54.180 ability

00:55:54.500 to

00:55:54.760 speak

00:55:55.460 is

00:55:56.300 that

00:55:56.660 in

00:55:57.460 the

00:55:58.040 microcosmic

00:55:59.000 manner

00:55:59.400 that's

00:56:00.040 what we're

00:56:01.500 capable of

00:56:02.120 doing

00:56:02.300 that's what

00:56:02.700 the patriarchal

00:56:03.740 spirit

00:56:04.160 does

00:56:04.700 is

00:56:04.980 name

00:56:05.740 and order

00:56:06.220 the world

00:56:06.820 and God

00:56:08.900 brings

00:56:09.300 everything

00:56:09.720 to Adam

00:56:10.100 to see

00:56:10.500 what he'll

00:56:10.820 name

00:56:11.080 them

00:56:11.240 and that's

00:56:11.680 a

00:56:12.000 reflection

00:56:13.600 of the

00:56:14.040 idea

00:56:14.400 that

00:56:14.720 we have

00:56:17.000 a created

00:56:17.540 order

00:56:17.900 but

00:56:18.160 man has

00:56:19.440 a place

00:56:19.880 in it

00:56:20.200 and the

00:56:20.480 place

00:56:20.780 is to

00:56:21.300 organize

00:56:22.440 it

00:56:22.820 and to

00:56:23.140 put

00:56:23.300 everything

00:56:23.800 in its

00:56:24.240 proper

00:56:24.580 place

00:56:25.020 and to

00:56:25.700 assign

00:56:26.180 it

00:56:26.360 its

00:56:26.740 identity

00:56:27.580 and that's

00:56:29.420 no different

00:56:30.020 than the

00:56:30.560 prioritization

00:56:31.620 of attention

00:56:32.360 that's part

00:56:33.500 of the

00:56:33.800 story

00:56:34.200 name

00:56:36.060 things

00:56:36.400 in

00:56:36.560 relationship

00:56:37.040 to their

00:56:37.460 function

00:56:37.880 put

00:56:38.380 things

00:56:38.660 in

00:56:38.860 place

00:56:39.260 in

00:56:39.580 relationship

00:56:40.800 to

00:56:41.340 their

00:56:41.740 significance

00:56:43.560 in the

00:56:47.400 hierarchy

00:56:47.960 of being

00:56:48.640 orient

00:56:50.140 them

00:56:50.520 orient

00:56:51.980 all

00:56:52.500 named

00:56:52.960 things

00:56:53.520 upward

00:56:54.140 sequence

00:56:55.940 constrain

00:56:57.760 organize

00:56:59.060 and order

00:56:59.640 the

00:57:01.040 manifestation

00:57:01.580 of the

00:57:02.140 patriarchal

00:57:02.720 spirit

00:57:03.140 what does

00:57:04.000 God

00:57:04.240 decide

00:57:04.700 that's

00:57:05.280 not

00:57:05.480 good

00:57:05.700 enough

00:57:06.100 man

00:57:08.060 lacks 1.00

00:57:08.540 a helper

00:57:09.440 man

00:57:10.060 needs

00:57:10.340 a helper

00:57:10.800 woman's 0.82

00:57:13.300 created

00:57:13.580 as a

00:57:13.940 consequence

00:57:14.360 because

00:57:14.980 the order

00:57:16.800 that men

00:57:17.600 produce

00:57:19.480 because of

00:57:22.040 their

00:57:22.400 limitations

00:57:23.600 is

00:57:24.620 insufficient

00:57:25.260 and

00:57:26.320 something

00:57:26.880 has to

00:57:27.340 be

00:57:27.500 introduced

00:57:28.060 to

00:57:28.520 speak

00:57:30.560 for that

00:57:31.160 which is

00:57:31.540 not

00:57:31.780 included

00:57:32.300 that's

00:57:34.180 the role

00:57:34.560 of woman

00:57:34.980 that's

00:57:36.360 the

00:57:36.540 biblical

00:57:36.860 role

00:57:37.320 of the

00:57:37.600 woman 0.99

00:57:37.860 it's

00:57:38.660 the

00:57:38.820 biological

00:57:39.340 role

00:57:39.840 of the

00:57:40.120 mother

00:57:40.400 you know

00:57:41.280 this in

00:57:41.640 your

00:57:41.760 own

00:57:41.960 household

00:57:42.560 women 1.00

00:57:45.320 bring the 0.59

00:57:45.840 concerns

00:57:46.320 of the

00:57:46.800 marginalized

00:57:47.720 to the

00:57:48.740 center

00:57:49.040 you can

00:57:51.180 think about

00:57:51.540 that

00:57:51.780 politically

00:57:52.280 it's

00:57:53.520 useful

00:57:54.020 to think

00:57:54.720 about it

00:57:55.100 politically

00:57:55.520 all

00:57:56.580 established

00:57:57.460 human

00:57:57.860 orders

00:57:58.420 exclude

00:57:59.720 the

00:58:01.260 exclusion

00:58:01.760 causes

00:58:02.260 pain

00:58:02.880 the

00:58:03.780 pain

00:58:04.660 of

00:58:04.820 exclusion

00:58:05.320 requires

00:58:05.900 a

00:58:06.140 voice

00:58:06.700 that's

00:58:08.280 the

00:58:08.420 voice

00:58:08.660 of the

00:58:08.960 eternal

00:58:09.300 mother

00:58:09.660 that's

00:58:13.020 where

00:58:13.180 Genesis

00:58:13.580 1

00:58:13.960 ends

00:58:14.340 Genesis

00:58:16.480 2

00:58:16.880 begins

00:58:17.360 contains

00:58:18.680 the

00:58:18.920 story

00:58:19.220 of

00:58:19.360 Adam

00:58:19.580 and

00:58:19.720 Eve

00:58:19.960 it's

00:58:20.580 another

00:58:20.920 creation

00:58:21.540 story

00:58:22.080 it's

00:58:23.920 commensurate

00:58:25.920 with the

00:58:26.340 first one

00:58:26.820 it's a

00:58:27.760 variation

00:58:28.320 on a

00:58:28.800 theme

00:58:29.080 God

00:58:32.400 creates

00:58:32.960 Adam

00:58:33.300 out of

00:58:33.880 matter

00:58:35.480 earth

00:58:37.060 and

00:58:37.940 breath

00:58:39.200 spirit

00:58:39.980 why

00:58:40.620 because

00:58:41.080 that's

00:58:41.380 what

00:58:41.520 human

00:58:41.860 beings

00:58:42.160 are

00:58:42.420 we're

00:58:42.840 material

00:58:43.900 creatures

00:58:44.460 that are

00:58:45.700 animated

00:58:46.800 anima

00:58:48.080 means

00:58:48.380 spirit

00:58:49.060 we

00:58:50.440 what's

00:58:53.660 the

00:58:53.880 spirit

00:58:54.400 the

00:58:56.500 spirit

00:58:57.020 is the

00:58:57.680 living

00:58:59.380 organizing

00:58:59.960 principle

00:59:00.460 of the

00:59:00.840 material

00:59:01.220 and human

00:59:03.020 beings

00:59:03.320 are an

00:59:03.620 amalgam

00:59:04.060 of

00:59:04.340 the

00:59:04.840 living

00:59:05.280 organizing

00:59:06.260 principle

00:59:07.120 and the

00:59:07.920 material

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00:59:09.640 what's

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00:59:10.220 in the

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00:59:11.720 Adam

00:59:12.000 the

00:59:13.660 combination

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00:59:14.960 spirit

00:59:15.280 the

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00:59:19.200 think about

00:59:19.520 it that

00:59:19.820 way

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00:59:20.300 more

00:59:20.560 secular

00:59:21.360 minded

00:59:21.860 we're

00:59:22.860 conscious

00:59:23.380 matter

00:59:23.940 what's

00:59:26.540 up with

00:59:26.900 that

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00:59:28.780 understands

00:59:29.360 that

00:59:29.780 no

00:59:30.140 materialist

00:59:30.860 understands

00:59:31.380 that

00:59:31.680 we

00:59:32.220 understand

00:59:32.680 nothing

00:59:33.140 about

00:59:33.440 consciousness

00:59:33.960 it's

00:59:35.100 as

00:59:35.220 mysterious

00:59:35.620 now

00:59:36.020 as

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00:59:36.340 been

00:59:36.520 throughout

00:59:36.840 the

00:59:37.280 entire

00:59:37.600 course

00:59:37.940 of

00:59:38.080 our

00:59:38.200 existence

00:59:38.580 it's

00:59:39.580 never

00:59:39.820 been

00:59:40.040 reduced

00:59:40.400 to

00:59:40.580 material

00:59:41.000 phenomena

00:59:41.560 phenomenon

00:59:42.840 we have

00:59:43.220 no idea

00:59:43.620 what that

00:59:43.940 would

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00:59:44.320 mean

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00:59:45.460 we

00:59:45.580 did

00:59:45.780 reduce

00:59:46.160 it

00:59:46.300 to

00:59:46.420 the

00:59:46.560 material

00:59:46.920 all

00:59:47.180 that

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00:59:47.540 mean

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00:59:47.940 that

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00:59:48.320 inadvertently

00:59:49.300 elevated

00:59:49.800 the

00:59:49.980 material

00:59:50.400 we

00:59:52.000 treat

00:59:52.240 each

00:59:52.500 other

00:59:52.680 like

00:59:52.900 we're

00:59:53.060 conscious

00:59:53.460 we

00:59:54.400 presume

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00:59:55.200 first

00:59:55.500 principles

00:59:56.000 that

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00:59:57.000 conscious

00:59:57.500 we

00:59:58.220 can't

00:59:58.500 even

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01:00:01.980 and

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01:00:47.160 the

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01:01:54.900 right

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01:02:02.360 Eve

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01:02:05.380 their

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01:02:19.020 everything

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01:02:23.740 one

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01:02:36.180 man

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01:02:38.420 a

01:02:38.560 mystery

01:02:38.920 I

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01:02:40.860 a

01:02:41.020 long

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01:02:41.700 trying

01:02:42.780 to

01:02:42.960 crack

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01:02:45.860 Eve

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01:02:46.240 it

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01:02:49.620 or

01:02:49.740 four

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01:02:50.420 that

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01:02:51.980 started

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01:02:58.780 Jonathan

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01:03:00.040 of

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01:03:01.560 Jonathan

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01:03:04.260 his

01:03:04.420 brother

01:03:04.700 Matthew

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01:03:05.740 me

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01:03:06.640 and

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01:03:10.860 Jonathan

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01:03:11.440 a

01:03:11.580 number

01:03:11.760 of

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01:03:15.460 another

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01:05:36.780 which is

01:05:37.840 exactly

01:05:38.300 what

01:05:38.540 happened

01:05:38.900 and he

01:05:39.520 saw

01:05:39.740 that

01:05:39.960 coming

01:05:40.260 just

01:05:40.520 as

01:05:40.720 clearly

01:05:41.000 as

01:05:41.320 his

01:05:42.060 Russian

01:05:42.460 counterpart

01:05:43.160 Theodor

01:05:43.700 Dostoevsky

01:05:44.440 saw it

01:05:44.960 he

01:05:45.860 knew

01:05:46.080 what

01:05:46.300 would

01:05:46.440 rise

01:05:46.880 in the

01:05:47.260 aftermath

01:05:47.560 of the

01:05:48.020 death

01:05:48.240 of

01:05:48.400 God

01:05:48.680 he

01:05:49.140 knew

01:05:49.360 that

01:05:49.600 resentment

01:05:50.140 and

01:05:50.640 communitarianism

01:05:51.620 would be

01:05:51.940 one

01:05:52.340 temptation

01:05:54.060 and he

01:05:56.480 tried to

01:05:57.460 formulate

01:05:58.240 a

01:05:58.780 alternative

01:05:59.400 path

01:05:59.800 he said

01:06:00.240 we're going

01:06:01.320 to have

01:06:01.700 to create

01:06:02.220 our own

01:06:02.640 values

01:06:03.100 we're going

01:06:03.680 to have

01:06:03.940 to take

01:06:04.360 it upon

01:06:04.760 ourselves

01:06:05.280 to create

01:06:06.420 the moral

01:06:06.860 landscape

01:06:07.360 I read

01:06:10.520 that

01:06:10.880 and

01:06:11.400 I

01:06:12.280 understood

01:06:12.680 why

01:06:13.100 he

01:06:13.460 said

01:06:14.440 that

01:06:14.720 I

01:06:15.080 could

01:06:15.260 see

01:06:15.560 its

01:06:15.780 influence

01:06:16.280 on

01:06:16.560 clinical

01:06:17.120 psychology

01:06:18.340 for example

01:06:18.920 the notion

01:06:19.460 of the

01:06:19.780 self

01:06:20.080 actualized

01:06:20.760 person

01:06:21.200 the notion

01:06:21.920 that our

01:06:22.300 soul

01:06:22.640 should

01:06:22.900 unfold

01:06:23.440 in the

01:06:24.060 direction

01:06:24.440 that's

01:06:24.720 commensurate

01:06:25.240 with

01:06:25.620 the deepest

01:06:27.200 understanding

01:06:27.940 of our

01:06:28.360 subjective

01:06:28.960 selves

01:06:29.500 right

01:06:29.720 the radical

01:06:30.600 unveiling

01:06:31.560 of

01:06:31.800 subjectivity

01:06:32.660 self

01:06:33.480 definition

01:06:34.100 I am

01:06:35.600 what I

01:06:35.960 say

01:06:36.220 I am

01:06:36.800 which is

01:06:38.280 a radical

01:06:38.720 claim

01:06:39.060 in our

01:06:39.360 society

01:06:39.880 now

01:06:40.300 a claim

01:06:41.560 of

01:06:41.720 omniscience

01:06:42.280 not only

01:06:43.020 am I

01:06:43.440 who I

01:06:44.080 say

01:06:44.340 I am

01:06:44.840 you

01:06:45.520 better

01:06:45.800 act

01:06:46.200 like

01:06:46.480 I'm

01:06:46.840 who

01:06:47.000 I

01:06:47.220 say

01:06:47.440 I

01:06:47.660 am

01:06:47.940 that's

01:06:48.860 the

01:06:49.020 claim

01:06:49.400 of

01:06:49.600 the

01:06:49.780 radical

01:06:50.200 subjective

01:06:51.460 well

01:06:51.880 what's

01:06:52.120 wrong

01:06:52.360 with

01:06:52.540 that

01:06:52.720 claim

01:06:53.100 well

01:06:54.520 the

01:06:54.680 psychoanalysts

01:06:55.660 criticized

01:06:56.200 Nietzsche

01:06:56.580 very

01:06:56.920 effectively

01:06:57.420 they

01:06:57.660 said

01:06:57.880 look

01:06:58.140 how

01:06:58.640 are

01:06:58.740 you

01:06:58.820 going

01:06:58.920 to

01:06:59.000 create

01:06:59.220 your

01:06:59.400 own

01:06:59.540 values

01:06:59.900 when

01:07:00.120 you're

01:07:00.240 not

01:07:00.400 master

01:07:00.780 in

01:07:00.960 your

01:07:01.080 own

01:07:01.240 house

01:07:01.580 have

01:07:02.500 you

01:07:02.600 tried

01:07:02.860 telling

01:07:03.140 yourself

01:07:03.540 what

01:07:03.780 to

01:07:03.960 do

01:07:04.240 how

01:07:05.460 does

01:07:05.640 that

01:07:05.820 work

01:07:06.080 for

01:07:06.320 you

01:07:06.480 I

01:07:07.180 know

01:07:07.380 you're

01:07:07.640 just

01:07:07.840 your

01:07:08.080 own

01:07:08.260 obedient

01:07:08.600 servant

01:07:09.060 right

01:07:09.360 you're

01:07:09.620 so

01:07:09.840 morally

01:07:10.240 pure

01:07:10.580 you

01:07:10.760 just

01:07:11.000 tell

01:07:11.320 yourself

01:07:11.760 at

01:07:13.160 new

01:07:13.360 years

01:07:13.640 that

01:07:13.840 you're

01:07:14.000 going

01:07:14.100 to

01:07:14.160 go

01:07:14.280 to

01:07:14.400 the

01:07:14.560 gym

01:07:14.840 and

01:07:15.020 you're

01:07:15.220 going

01:07:15.360 to

01:07:15.480 diet

01:07:15.880 and

01:07:16.180 you're

01:07:16.380 going

01:07:16.500 to

01:07:16.580 be

01:07:16.780 some

01:07:17.360 stellar

01:07:17.900 physique

01:07:18.560 lean

01:07:19.440 mean

01:07:19.840 fighting

01:07:20.340 machine

01:07:20.780 by

01:07:21.100 March

01:07:22.140 and

01:07:22.440 you

01:07:22.600 go

01:07:22.760 once

01:07:23.280 and

01:07:24.040 then

01:07:24.700 you

01:07:24.860 tell

01:07:25.060 yourself

01:07:25.500 lies

01:07:25.920 about

01:07:26.240 why

01:07:26.520 you

01:07:26.660 don't

01:07:32.860 you

01:07:33.540 wouldn't

01:07:33.860 be

01:07:34.180 the

01:07:37.080 the

01:07:39.320 banner

01:07:39.740 the

01:07:39.960 tattered

01:07:40.360 banner

01:07:40.720 that

01:07:40.980 blows

01:07:41.320 in

01:07:41.500 the

01:07:41.620 wind

01:07:41.860 of

01:07:42.000 its

01:07:42.160 own

01:07:42.380 whims

01:07:42.820 the

01:07:44.620 psychoanalyst

01:07:45.220 figured

01:07:45.500 this

01:07:45.700 out

01:07:45.860 very

01:07:46.060 quickly

01:07:46.440 you're

01:07:47.140 a

01:07:47.300 war

01:07:47.600 of

01:07:47.840 competing

01:07:48.280 whims

01:07:48.820 and

01:07:50.560 a

01:07:50.700 creature

01:07:50.980 like

01:07:51.240 that

01:07:51.420 is

01:07:51.520 going

01:07:51.660 to

01:07:51.720 have

01:07:51.820 a

01:07:51.900 very

01:07:52.100 difficult

01:07:52.440 time

01:07:52.940 navigating

01:07:53.760 the

01:07:54.040 complex

01:07:54.520 landscape

01:07:55.000 of

01:07:55.300 the

01:07:55.460 ultimate

01:07:55.920 moral

01:07:57.700 pronouncement

01:07:59.660 who

01:08:01.000 are

01:08:01.160 you

01:08:01.320 to

01:08:01.500 make

01:08:01.820 a

01:08:01.960 decision

01:08:02.300 about

01:08:02.560 what

01:08:02.800 constitutes

01:08:03.340 good

01:08:03.600 and

01:08:03.740 evil

01:08:03.960 and

01:08:04.340 that's

01:08:04.540 what

01:08:04.700 God

01:08:05.640 tells

01:08:06.020 men

01:08:06.340 and

01:08:06.480 women 1.00

01:08:06.660 it's

01:08:06.860 like

01:08:07.040 you

01:08:07.900 don't

01:08:08.040 get

01:08:08.180 to

01:08:08.300 create

01:08:08.520 the

01:08:08.660 moral

01:08:08.840 order

01:08:09.080 you

01:08:09.220 get

01:08:09.340 to

01:08:09.460 dwell

01:08:09.680 within

01:08:09.960 it

01:08:10.200 you

01:08:11.080 get

01:08:11.220 to

01:08:11.360 align

01:08:11.800 yourself

01:08:12.300 with

01:08:12.600 the

01:08:12.740 pre-existent

01:08:13.380 moral

01:08:13.640 order

01:08:13.960 you

01:08:14.400 do

01:08:14.560 not

01:08:14.780 take

01:08:15.060 to

01:08:15.220 yourself

01:08:15.680 the

01:08:16.020 right

01:08:17.080 the

01:08:17.720 presumption

01:08:18.480 to

01:08:19.400 define

01:08:20.860 good

01:08:21.120 and

01:08:21.260 evil

01:08:21.440 themselves

01:08:21.920 you

01:08:23.980 bow

01:08:24.740 your 1.00

01:08:25.120 head

01:08:27.340 to

01:08:27.560 good

01:08:27.820 and

01:08:28.240 you

01:08:28.560 pray

01:08:30.400 for

01:08:30.860 deliverance

01:08:31.380 from

01:08:31.560 evil

01:08:31.840 and

01:08:33.580 if

01:08:33.720 you

01:08:33.840 violate

01:08:34.240 that

01:08:34.700 look

01:08:36.300 the

01:08:36.480 hell

01:08:36.680 out

01:08:36.980 and

01:08:38.040 that's

01:08:38.500 the

01:08:38.960 pronouncement

01:08:39.620 and

01:08:40.000 so

01:08:40.160 what

01:08:40.360 happens

01:08:40.780 the

01:08:43.980 serpent

01:08:44.260 offers

01:08:44.800 Eve

01:08:46.520 the

01:08:47.880 fruit

01:08:48.100 why

01:08:49.300 the

01:08:49.520 serpent

01:08:49.880 well

01:08:50.480 the

01:08:50.680 serpent

01:08:50.940 is

01:08:51.180 camouflaged

01:08:52.020 the

01:08:54.420 serpent

01:08:54.760 is

01:08:55.260 crafty

01:08:56.660 subtle

01:08:57.700 the

01:08:59.600 serpent

01:08:59.960 is

01:09:00.420 marginalized

01:09:03.060 the

01:09:04.140 serpent

01:09:04.460 is the

01:09:04.840 voice

01:09:05.100 of

01:09:05.280 pride

01:09:05.640 the

01:09:06.100 serpent

01:09:06.380 is

01:09:06.620 Lucifer

01:09:07.200 that's

01:09:07.840 the

01:09:08.120 metaphysical

01:09:09.960 surrounding

01:09:10.520 of the

01:09:11.020 story

01:09:12.180 that

01:09:12.400 develops

01:09:13.040 over

01:09:13.260 centuries

01:09:13.800 the

01:09:14.040 notion

01:09:14.340 that

01:09:14.520 the

01:09:14.700 serpent

01:09:14.980 in

01:09:15.300 the

01:09:15.920 garden

01:09:16.120 of

01:09:16.260 paradise

01:09:16.600 is

01:09:16.840 Lucifer

01:09:17.240 himself

01:09:17.640 the

01:09:17.880 spirit

01:09:18.220 of

01:09:18.400 pride

01:09:18.800 what

01:09:20.200 does

01:09:20.300 that

01:09:20.460 mean

01:09:20.760 it's

01:09:21.260 prideful

01:09:21.680 presumption

01:09:22.260 that makes

01:09:22.700 you assume

01:09:23.200 that you

01:09:23.560 can define

01:09:24.020 the moral

01:09:24.340 order

01:09:24.700 what's

01:09:26.380 the

01:09:26.500 prideful

01:09:28.440 presumption

01:09:29.040 of

01:09:29.260 Eve

01:09:29.600 at the

01:09:30.100 beginning

01:09:30.340 of

01:09:30.560 time

01:09:30.840 and

01:09:31.000 forever

01:09:31.380 I

01:09:32.820 can

01:09:33.000 even

01:09:33.220 clasp

01:09:33.680 the

01:09:33.980 serpent

01:09:34.280 to

01:09:34.520 my 0.80

01:09:34.720 breast 0.87

01:09:35.180 it's

01:09:36.560 the

01:09:36.900 careless

01:09:38.260 welcoming

01:09:39.000 in

01:09:39.380 of the

01:09:39.920 monstrous

01:09:40.700 and 0.95

01:09:41.560 prideful

01:09:42.300 under

01:09:45.660 the guise

01:09:46.120 of the

01:09:46.420 pretension

01:09:46.880 of maternal

01:09:47.460 compassion

01:09:48.060 and if

01:09:51.500 you can't

01:09:51.880 see that

01:09:52.240 happening

01:09:52.580 in our

01:09:52.880 society

01:09:53.300 you're

01:09:53.560 blind 0.95

01:09:53.920 and

01:09:56.080 what's

01:09:56.340 the

01:09:56.500 sin

01:09:56.680 of

01:09:56.820 Adam

01:09:57.880 well

01:10:00.320 what do

01:10:00.600 men

01:10:00.760 care

01:10:01.040 about

01:10:01.360 women 1.00

01:10:02.400 care

01:10:02.740 about

01:10:03.120 properly

01:10:04.840 about

01:10:05.340 the

01:10:07.720 helpless

01:10:08.020 infant

01:10:08.440 it's

01:10:12.480 a

01:10:12.620 powerful

01:10:13.220 feminine

01:10:13.620 virtue

01:10:14.000 and it

01:10:14.280 can be

01:10:14.700 inverted

01:10:15.860 and made

01:10:16.300 prideful

01:10:16.840 and trumpeted

01:10:17.520 and presumptuous

01:10:18.820 to

01:10:20.020 infantilize

01:10:20.720 the world

01:10:21.120 and to

01:10:21.640 advertise

01:10:22.480 that

01:10:22.940 compassion

01:10:23.560 as a

01:10:24.580 badge

01:10:25.320 of

01:10:25.820 worth

01:10:28.980 and honor

01:10:29.500 as a

01:10:30.180 mode

01:10:30.680 of

01:10:30.840 attaining

01:10:31.220 status

01:10:31.860 what's

01:10:33.380 Adam's

01:10:33.800 sin

01:10:34.040 what do

01:10:35.480 men care

01:10:35.900 about

01:10:36.160 impressing

01:10:37.020 women 1.00

01:10:37.400 men are

01:10:41.020 ambitious

01:10:41.400 fundamentally

01:10:42.160 to impress

01:10:42.840 women 1.00

01:10:43.200 for

01:10:45.520 better

01:10:45.780 or for

01:10:46.080 worse

01:10:46.460 what's

01:10:48.440 the

01:10:48.740 prideful

01:10:50.160 pathway

01:10:51.240 and

01:10:52.540 false

01:10:52.820 pathway

01:10:53.260 to

01:10:53.700 establishing

01:10:56.280 a relationship

01:10:56.920 with the

01:10:57.460 too

01:10:57.660 demanding

01:10:58.120 feminine

01:10:58.620 I've

01:11:01.220 got it

01:11:01.760 anything

01:11:03.800 you want

01:11:04.320 dear

01:11:04.600 right

01:11:06.420 and that's

01:11:07.160 Adam's

01:11:07.600 sin

01:11:07.880 he

01:11:08.500 Eve

01:11:09.500 hearkens

01:11:09.920 to the

01:11:10.220 voice

01:11:10.500 of the

01:11:10.880 serpent

01:11:11.260 and

01:11:12.220 clutches

01:11:12.620 it to

01:11:12.960 her 0.91

01:11:13.120 breast

01:11:13.560 despite

01:11:16.200 the

01:11:17.080 clear

01:11:17.560 injunction

01:11:18.260 from

01:11:19.100 the

01:11:19.340 divine

01:11:19.760 never

01:11:21.100 to do

01:11:21.500 that

01:11:21.840 and Adam

01:11:23.000 weakly

01:11:25.280 does

01:11:25.580 exactly

01:11:26.100 what

01:11:26.440 the

01:11:26.720 worst

01:11:26.960 part

01:11:27.220 of

01:11:27.320 his

01:11:27.540 wife

01:11:28.280 wants

01:11:28.700 and

01:11:29.980 so

01:11:30.260 here

01:11:30.840 we

01:11:31.000 are

01:11:31.240 folks

01:11:31.740 so

01:11:35.980 what's

01:11:36.220 the

01:11:36.360 consequence

01:11:36.740 of

01:11:37.020 that

01:11:37.260 well

01:11:38.540 the

01:11:39.480 scales

01:11:39.860 fall

01:11:40.120 from

01:11:40.340 their

01:11:40.500 eyes

01:11:40.760 and

01:11:40.900 they

01:11:41.040 notice

01:11:41.320 they're

01:11:41.540 naked

01:11:41.880 and

01:11:44.400 they're

01:11:44.560 deeply

01:11:44.840 ashamed

01:11:45.300 and

01:11:45.460 they

01:11:45.600 cover

01:11:45.820 up

01:11:46.160 they

01:11:47.640 become

01:11:47.900 self

01:11:48.200 conscious

01:11:48.700 okay

01:11:49.880 so

01:11:50.080 when

01:11:50.240 do

01:11:50.320 people

01:11:50.540 become

01:11:50.880 self

01:11:51.160 conscious

01:11:51.560 when

01:11:53.780 they

01:11:53.900 make

01:11:54.160 prideful

01:11:54.740 errors

01:11:55.260 when

01:11:56.740 you

01:11:56.880 over

01:11:57.180 reach

01:11:57.600 and

01:11:58.300 you

01:11:58.420 reveal

01:11:58.800 your

01:11:59.040 inadequacy

01:11:59.760 as

01:11:59.980 a

01:12:00.120 consequence

01:12:00.540 of

01:12:00.940 the

01:12:01.100 mismatch

01:12:01.640 between

01:12:02.000 your

01:12:02.380 pride

01:12:03.180 and

01:12:03.400 your

01:12:03.660 ability

01:12:04.460 you'll

01:12:05.260 be

01:12:05.400 ashamed

01:12:05.920 you'll

01:12:07.640 recognize

01:12:08.140 your

01:12:08.640 insufficiency

01:12:10.280 you'll

01:12:11.280 be

01:12:11.600 aware

01:12:12.800 of

01:12:13.020 yourself

01:12:13.480 as

01:12:13.740 an

01:12:13.920 isolated

01:12:14.500 entity

01:12:15.340 that's

01:12:16.060 all

01:12:16.220 to

01:12:16.360 become

01:12:16.680 self

01:12:17.060 conscious

01:12:17.600 psychologists

01:12:19.280 have learned

01:12:19.780 over the

01:12:20.060 last

01:12:20.260 40

01:12:20.560 years

01:12:20.840 that

01:12:21.020 there's

01:12:21.260 no

01:12:21.500 difference

01:12:21.920 between

01:12:22.340 being

01:12:22.620 conscious

01:12:22.940 of

01:12:23.160 yourself

01:12:23.420 and

01:12:23.660 being 0.96

01:12:23.840 miserable 0.97

01:12:24.220 those

01:12:25.640 are

01:12:25.760 literally

01:12:26.280 the

01:12:26.580 same

01:12:26.840 thing

01:12:27.200 if

01:12:28.180 you're

01:12:28.400 living

01:12:28.780 a

01:12:29.500 life

01:12:29.800 of

01:12:30.100 other

01:12:30.640 centered

01:12:31.200 communally

01:12:32.140 oriented

01:12:32.720 hospitable

01:12:34.060 calling

01:12:35.400 you're not

01:12:37.340 attending

01:12:37.800 to the

01:12:38.820 miseries of

01:12:39.520 your

01:12:39.680 isolated

01:12:40.200 self

01:12:40.680 if

01:12:41.760 you

01:12:41.900 stay

01:12:42.260 in your

01:12:42.740 bailiwick

01:12:43.520 and you

01:12:44.400 don't

01:12:44.860 put forward

01:12:46.020 your

01:12:46.380 hand

01:12:47.000 presumptuously

01:12:47.860 you can

01:12:49.280 live in the

01:12:49.880 absence of

01:12:50.480 painful

01:12:50.820 self

01:12:51.180 consciousness

01:12:51.680 pride

01:12:52.600 goes

01:12:53.400 before

01:12:54.820 a

01:12:55.000 fall

01:12:55.240 we

01:12:56.500 have

01:12:56.640 a

01:12:56.780 month

01:12:57.220 devoted

01:12:57.640 to

01:12:57.860 pride

01:12:58.120 in

01:12:58.280 our

01:12:58.440 culture

01:12:58.820 right

01:12:59.880 pride

01:13:01.800 goes

01:13:02.080 before

01:13:02.400 a

01:13:02.560 fall

01:13:02.720 you

01:13:02.900 know

01:13:03.040 this

01:13:03.260 in

01:13:03.380 your

01:13:03.500 own

01:13:03.660 life

01:13:03.960 you

01:13:04.940 can

01:13:05.120 ask

01:13:05.400 yourself

01:13:05.740 and this

01:13:06.080 has been

01:13:07.040 a

01:13:07.180 Christian

01:13:07.620 conundrum

01:13:08.860 since the

01:13:09.980 beginning

01:13:10.200 of time

01:13:10.600 is your

01:13:11.360 life 0.77

01:13:11.620 miserable

01:13:12.020 because

01:13:12.460 misery

01:13:12.920 is

01:13:13.140 baked

01:13:13.440 into

01:13:13.680 the

01:13:13.880 structure

01:13:14.200 of

01:13:14.380 the

01:13:14.500 world

01:13:14.760 or

01:13:15.460 is

01:13:15.640 your

01:13:15.760 life 0.78

01:13:15.980 miserable

01:13:16.340 because 0.98

01:13:16.680 you

01:13:16.900 do 1.00

01:13:17.220 stupid 1.00

01:13:18.120 things 1.00

01:13:18.540 and

01:13:18.740 refuse

01:13:19.120 to

01:13:19.380 learn

01:13:19.680 and

01:13:19.920 bring

01:13:20.240 endless

01:13:20.680 misery

01:13:21.120 on

01:13:21.440 yourself

01:13:21.900 in

01:13:22.140 your

01:13:22.300 presumption

01:13:22.860 and

01:13:23.380 you

01:13:23.500 know

01:13:23.600 you

01:13:23.720 might

01:13:23.880 say

01:13:24.100 a

01:13:24.220 little

01:13:24.360 column

01:13:24.700 A

01:13:24.940 and

01:13:25.060 a

01:13:25.140 little

01:13:25.260 column

01:13:25.580 B

01:13:25.860 and

01:13:26.380 fair

01:13:26.660 enough

01:13:27.020 but

01:13:27.500 you

01:13:27.680 certainly

01:13:28.180 know

01:13:28.500 that

01:13:28.780 the

01:13:29.200 most

01:13:29.480 painful

01:13:29.920 episodes

01:13:30.440 of

01:13:30.640 your

01:13:30.760 life

01:13:31.040 come

01:13:31.340 when

01:13:31.580 you

01:13:31.980 claim

01:13:34.960 falsely

01:13:35.580 to be

01:13:35.880 more

01:13:36.120 than

01:13:36.280 you

01:13:36.460 are

01:13:36.760 and

01:13:38.440 and

01:13:38.460 the

01:13:38.700 core

01:13:40.500 narrative

01:13:40.920 in

01:13:41.800 the

01:13:43.420 Christian

01:13:43.920 Judeo-Christian

01:13:44.940 ethos

01:13:45.460 is that

01:13:45.880 the fall

01:13:48.240 of man

01:13:48.600 into the

01:13:48.980 profane

01:13:49.360 world

01:13:49.580 is a

01:13:49.860 consequence

01:13:50.240 of

01:13:50.520 pride

01:13:50.800 and

01:13:52.380 that

01:13:52.580 is

01:13:52.740 really

01:13:53.120 something

01:13:53.480 worth

01:13:53.740 thinking

01:13:54.020 about

01:13:54.300 you

01:13:55.040 know

01:13:55.180 Adam

01:13:55.520 and

01:13:55.660 Eve

01:13:55.780 are

01:13:55.900 called

01:13:56.120 upon

01:13:56.400 to

01:13:56.580 work

01:13:56.940 in

01:13:57.240 misery

01:13:57.660 as

01:13:57.940 a

01:13:58.060 consequence

01:13:58.400 of

01:13:58.680 their

01:13:58.800 pride

01:13:59.120 well

01:13:59.960 could

01:14:00.700 you

01:14:00.860 work

01:14:01.100 joyfully

01:14:01.660 if

01:14:03.300 you

01:14:03.440 didn't

01:14:03.700 overreach

01:14:04.200 yourself

01:14:04.700 if

01:14:04.940 you

01:14:05.040 were

01:14:05.160 aiming

01:14:05.360 upward

01:14:05.700 properly

01:14:06.240 if

01:14:06.460 you

01:14:06.560 were

01:14:06.660 telling

01:14:06.940 the

01:14:07.180 truth

01:14:07.480 if

01:14:07.720 you

01:14:07.840 were

01:14:07.960 acting

01:14:08.320 communally

01:14:08.920 if

01:14:09.360 you

01:14:09.420 were

01:14:09.520 acting

01:14:09.760 in

01:14:09.920 relationship

01:14:10.400 to

01:14:10.660 what

01:14:10.800 was

01:14:10.960 highest

01:14:11.340 would

01:14:12.080 it

01:14:12.200 be

01:14:12.340 possible

01:14:12.780 that

01:14:13.040 your

01:14:13.220 work

01:14:13.500 would

01:14:13.660 be

01:14:13.840 joyful

01:14:14.300 and

01:14:15.160 bring

01:14:15.440 abundance

01:14:16.000 isn't

01:14:17.060 there

01:14:17.180 times

01:14:17.460 in

01:14:17.600 your

01:14:17.720 life

01:14:17.920 when

01:14:18.080 that's

01:14:18.340 happened

01:14:18.720 is

01:14:19.420 it

01:14:19.580 the

01:14:20.420 case

01:14:20.720 that

01:14:20.920 you

01:14:21.080 move

01:14:21.380 forward

01:14:21.860 in

01:14:22.120 misery

01:14:22.660 in

01:14:23.560 precise

01:14:23.980 proportion

01:14:24.520 to

01:14:24.800 the

01:14:25.020 pretension

01:14:25.620 of

01:14:25.860 your

01:14:26.040 aim

01:14:26.360 it's

01:14:29.360 worth

01:14:29.620 considering

01:14:30.320 it's

01:14:33.560 the

01:14:33.780 suspicion

01:14:34.400 that

01:14:34.720 arises

01:14:35.140 at

01:14:35.460 the

01:14:36.240 story

01:14:37.340 that

01:14:37.540 begins

01:14:37.900 history

01:14:38.340 because

01:14:38.680 it's

01:14:38.940 with

01:14:39.380 the

01:14:41.060 prideful

01:14:41.900 fall

01:14:42.360 of

01:14:42.780 Adam

01:14:43.480 and

01:14:43.600 Eve

01:14:43.740 that

01:14:43.900 history

01:14:44.440 begins

01:14:44.840 Adam

01:14:48.740 and

01:14:48.880 Eve

01:14:49.000 discover

01:14:49.360 they're

01:14:49.580 naked

01:14:49.860 and

01:14:50.260 they

01:14:50.540 hide

01:14:51.500 and

01:14:52.080 God

01:14:52.300 comes

01:14:52.540 along

01:14:52.820 and

01:14:52.980 says

01:14:53.260 Adam

01:14:54.380 where

01:14:54.620 are

01:14:54.820 you

01:14:55.100 and

01:14:56.360 Adam

01:14:56.600 says

01:14:57.000 I'm

01:14:57.660 over

01:14:57.880 here

01:14:58.160 I'm

01:14:58.980 hiding

01:14:59.580 and

01:15:00.960 God

01:15:01.180 says

01:15:01.380 why are

01:15:01.820 you

01:15:01.920 hiding

01:15:02.240 it's

01:15:02.580 a 1.00

01:15:02.720 foolish 0.99

01:15:03.040 thing 1.00

01:15:03.360 to

01:15:03.520 do

01:15:03.720 right

01:15:03.980 because

01:15:04.320 Adam

01:15:05.020 is

01:15:05.220 perfectly

01:15:05.600 aware

01:15:05.860 that

01:15:06.040 God

01:15:06.300 can

01:15:06.520 see

01:15:06.720 through

01:15:06.960 bushes

01:15:07.400 Adam

01:15:08.240 is

01:15:08.420 hiding

01:15:08.700 from

01:15:08.960 God

01:15:09.280 is

01:15:10.020 it

01:15:10.180 your 1.00

01:15:10.460 pathetic 1.00

01:15:11.540 self 0.98

01:15:11.940 consciousness

01:15:12.460 that makes

01:15:13.140 you hide

01:15:13.520 from

01:15:13.760 God

01:15:14.140 that's

01:15:15.780 a good

01:15:15.980 question

01:15:16.380 are you

01:15:17.140 not

01:15:17.480 everything

01:15:17.960 you could

01:15:18.500 be

01:15:18.740 because

01:15:19.400 you're

01:15:20.320 ashamed

01:15:20.780 of who

01:15:21.120 you are

01:15:21.580 that's

01:15:22.860 what that

01:15:23.180 story

01:15:23.520 indicates

01:15:24.120 and so

01:15:24.900 God

01:15:25.180 calls

01:15:25.520 Adam

01:15:25.760 on

01:15:25.940 he says

01:15:26.220 who

01:15:26.420 told

01:15:26.840 you

01:15:27.060 why are

01:15:28.460 you

01:15:28.580 hiding

01:15:28.900 and Adam

01:15:29.260 says

01:15:29.480 well

01:15:29.660 I'm

01:15:29.880 naked

01:15:30.200 and God

01:15:30.700 says

01:15:30.980 well

01:15:31.340 how do

01:15:33.240 you find

01:15:33.560 out that

01:15:33.920 you were 0.55

01:15:34.140 naked

01:15:34.460 how did

01:15:35.920 you find

01:15:36.500 out that

01:15:36.920 you were

01:15:37.240 inadequate

01:15:37.720 how did

01:15:38.980 you find

01:15:39.420 out that

01:15:39.880 you are 0.99

01:15:40.900 shameful 1.00

01:15:41.560 and Adam

01:15:42.860 says

01:15:43.180 you know

01:15:43.700 that woman 1.00

01:15:44.140 you made

01:15:44.580 me

01:15:44.900 it's her

01:15:46.700 fault

01:15:47.240 and that's

01:15:48.520 the second

01:15:49.040 sin of

01:15:49.520 Adam

01:15:49.720 and that's

01:15:50.080 another

01:15:50.320 indication

01:15:50.880 of the

01:15:51.340 non-patriarchal

01:15:52.640 nature

01:15:52.920 of the

01:15:53.280 text

01:15:53.660 you know

01:15:54.280 Eve

01:15:54.740 is the

01:15:55.060 first

01:15:55.420 human

01:15:56.540 being

01:15:56.820 to take

01:15:57.180 a bite

01:15:57.420 of the

01:15:57.660 apple

01:15:57.920 but Adam

01:15:58.380 follows

01:15:59.020 along

01:15:59.600 and it

01:15:59.880 isn't

01:16:00.120 obvious

01:16:00.460 to me

01:16:00.820 that the

01:16:01.220 follower

01:16:01.640 of sin

01:16:02.200 is in

01:16:02.840 a worse

01:16:03.360 better

01:16:04.020 moral

01:16:04.360 position

01:16:04.840 than the

01:16:05.220 initiator

01:16:05.920 and then

01:16:06.580 he compounds

01:16:07.160 his sin

01:16:07.720 like men 0.69

01:16:08.680 do

01:16:09.020 by blaming

01:16:10.060 the woman 0.98

01:16:10.580 why is

01:16:11.480 your life

01:16:11.780 so

01:16:11.980 well if

01:16:12.400 you had

01:16:12.800 my wife

01:16:13.380 man

01:16:13.660 you'd

01:16:14.020 know

01:16:14.320 it's

01:16:14.820 like

01:16:14.940 those 1.00

01:16:15.240 damn 1.00

01:16:15.620 women 1.00

01:16:15.960 it's

01:16:16.240 like

01:16:16.440 it's

01:16:16.800 a handy

01:16:17.200 excuse

01:16:17.700 for men

01:16:18.160 all the

01:16:18.480 time

01:16:18.860 to say

01:16:19.680 that

01:16:19.960 and it's

01:16:20.700 not least

01:16:21.240 because

01:16:21.580 men

01:16:21.900 can't

01:16:22.360 tolerate

01:16:22.760 being

01:16:23.020 rejected

01:16:23.460 by

01:16:23.720 women 1.00

01:16:24.040 and women

01:16:24.720 reject

01:16:25.120 them

01:16:25.280 all the

01:16:25.560 time

01:16:25.940 and the

01:16:26.720 reason

01:16:26.980 women 1.00

01:16:27.280 reject 0.83

01:16:27.660 them

01:16:27.820 is

01:16:27.920 because

01:16:28.080 they're

01:16:28.220 not

01:16:28.380 all

01:16:28.540 they

01:16:28.680 should

01:16:28.900 be

01:16:29.160 and so

01:16:30.760 of course

01:16:31.140 that makes

01:16:31.600 men

01:16:31.840 painfully

01:16:32.360 self-conscious

01:16:33.160 and makes

01:16:34.180 them shake

01:16:34.620 their fist

01:16:35.100 at God

01:16:35.580 and makes

01:16:35.960 them hide

01:16:36.560 and so

01:16:37.880 what God

01:16:39.220 says

01:16:39.560 and so

01:16:40.180 Adam reveals

01:16:41.180 himself

01:16:41.580 in this 1.00

01:16:41.960 pathetic 1.00

01:16:42.420 manner 0.94

01:16:42.840 it's like

01:16:43.140 he can't

01:16:43.500 even take

01:16:44.080 responsibility

01:16:45.280 for his

01:16:45.920 own misstep

01:16:46.680 he has

01:16:47.020 to blame

01:16:47.620 the thing

01:16:49.080 that's been

01:16:49.560 granted to

01:16:50.260 him as the

01:16:50.840 highest form

01:16:51.640 of gift

01:16:52.300 and not

01:16:53.260 only her

01:16:53.800 but God

01:16:54.740 whose fault

01:16:57.100 is it

01:16:57.420 well it's

01:16:57.800 not mine

01:16:58.480 it's probably

01:16:59.220 women's

01:16:59.900 fault

01:17:00.220 and if

01:17:00.600 it's not

01:17:01.020 women 1.00

01:17:01.300 it's

01:17:01.580 clearly

01:17:01.920 God

01:17:02.420 it can't

01:17:03.580 be me

01:17:04.200 so what

01:17:06.820 happens

01:17:07.200 well both

01:17:07.680 Adam and

01:17:08.020 Eve are

01:17:08.280 condemned

01:17:08.620 to suffer

01:17:09.200 in their

01:17:09.560 work

01:17:09.880 and that's

01:17:12.460 how history

01:17:13.080 begins

01:17:13.540 and that's

01:17:15.060 the situation

01:17:15.880 of

01:17:16.240 fallen

01:17:17.660 of the

01:17:18.740 fallen

01:17:19.020 world

01:17:19.420 and that's

01:17:20.460 the

01:17:20.780 description

01:17:21.800 of the

01:17:22.680 landscape

01:17:24.640 of

01:17:25.380 profound

01:17:28.400 fiction

01:17:28.900 that we

01:17:29.500 that we

01:17:31.260 inhabit

01:17:31.640 and that's

01:17:33.800 only

01:17:34.300 a tiny

01:17:35.620 fraction

01:17:36.220 of the

01:17:36.680 characterization

01:17:37.260 of

01:17:37.920 God and

01:17:38.900 man

01:17:39.160 in the

01:17:39.780 biblical

01:17:41.000 corpus

01:17:41.580 thank you

01:17:44.820 very much

01:17:45.320 thank you

01:17:54.740 thank you

01:17:55.300 Thank you.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - May 30, 2024

The Sins of Adam and the True Nature of Eve

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