The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast - August 19, 2017


Walking With God： Noah and the Flood


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2 hours and 35 minutes

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164.0646

Word Count

25,543

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4,156

Misogynist Sentences

8

Hate Speech Sentences

119


Summary

In this episode, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson discusses the root cause of our disillusionment with the state of our society, and how it relates to the current state of the world. With decades of experience helping patients with depression and anxiety, Dr Peterson offers a unique understanding of why you might be feeling this way, and a roadmap towards healing. In his new series, "Depression and Anxiety," Dr. Peterson provides a roadmap toward healing, showing that while the journey isn't easy, it's absolutely possible to find your way forward. If you're suffering, please know you are not alone. There's hope, and there's a path to feeling better. Go to Daily Wire Plus now and start watching "Dr. Jordan Peterson on Depression and Anxiety: A Guide to Feelings of Distress" on his new YouTube channel. Let this be the first step towards the brighter future you deserve. You can support these podcasts by donating to his PODCAST, the link to which can be found in the description of his Poddy, or by becoming a patron of his project, "Self-Authoring". Dr. B.P. Peterson's self-development programs, self-authoring. He is an author, speaker, and coach, and founder of the Self-Authorizing. Coaching Professional. . He has been a long-time friend and mentor to many, including many of his patients. , and is a regular contributor to The New York Times bestselling author, The Huffington Post, and The New Yorker, and many other publications. and The Financial Times, and has been featured in the New York Magazine, and is one of the most influential publications in the world, as well. of course, you can find him online at and on social media accounts, , is a well-known author, and can be heard on online among other things in his podcast, . He is also on the Podcasts, on The Daily Wire, The Huffington and his , The New Statesman, Podcast, Social Media, the , , and The New Girlboss and so much more! All of his work is available online, he also he is to be has an of his own podcast, and he is , his podcast


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00:00:01.000 Hey everyone, real quick before you skip, I want to talk to you about something serious and important.
00:00:06.000 Dr. Jordan Peterson has created a new series that could be a lifeline for those battling depression and anxiety.
00:00:12.000 We know how isolating and overwhelming these conditions can be, and we wanted to take a moment to reach out to those listening who may be struggling.
00:00:19.000 With decades of experience helping patients, Dr. Peterson offers a unique understanding of why you might be feeling this way in his new series.
00:00:27.000 He provides a roadmap towards healing, showing that while the journey isn't easy, it's absolutely possible to find your way forward.
00:00:35.000 If you're suffering, please know you are not alone. There's hope, and there's a path to feeling better.
00:00:41.000 Go to Daily Wire Plus now and start watching Dr. Jordan B. Peterson on depression and anxiety.
00:00:47.000 Let this be the first step towards the brighter future you deserve.
00:00:52.000 Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson podcast.
00:00:59.000 You can support these podcasts by donating to Dr. Peterson's Patreon, the link to which can be found in the description.
00:01:06.000 Dr. Peterson's self-development programs, self-authoring, can be found at selfauthoring.com.
00:01:13.000 Thank you.
00:01:30.000 Thank you.
00:01:32.000 So, I look today, and these lectures have now been watched by, they've been viewed a million times.
00:01:39.000 So, that's pretty amazing, really.
00:01:49.000 Or they've been, they've been glanced at a million times.
00:01:52.000 That might, that's also possible.
00:01:55.000 Alright, so, well, let's get right into it.
00:01:58.000 So, last week, I think, was mostly remarkable for the absolute dearth of content that was actually biblically related.
00:02:08.000 So, that was, I'll just recap what I laid out, and so that it sets the frame properly for what we're going to discuss tonight.
00:02:19.000 And, I presented you with an elaborated description of this diagram, essentially.
00:02:31.000 Which I spent quite a lot of time formulating, probably about 25 years ago, I guess.
00:02:36.000 Which kind of accounts for its graphic primitiveness, I suppose.
00:02:40.000 Because, I was really pushing the limits of my 486 computer to produce that, I can tell you.
00:02:47.000 So, and it's, it's, it's a, it's a description, a representation of the archetypal circumstances of life.
00:02:55.000 And, and the archetypal circumstances are the circumstances that are true under all conditions, at all, for all time.
00:03:05.000 And so, you can think about them as descriptively characteristic of the nature of human experience.
00:03:10.000 That's not exactly the same as the nature of reality.
00:03:13.000 But, because you can, you can divide reality into its subjective and objective elements, and, and there's utility in doing that.
00:03:24.000 But, these sorts of representations don't play that game.
00:03:27.000 They consider human experience as constitutive of reality.
00:03:36.000 And that's how we experience it, and so we'll just go with that.
00:03:39.000 The idea basically is, is that we always exist inside a damaged structure.
00:03:44.000 And, that structure is partly biological, and it's, it's partly socio-cultural.
00:03:52.000 It's partly what's been handed to us by our, by our ancestors.
00:03:57.000 Both, practically, in terms of infrastructure, but also, psychologically, in terms of the active, learned content of our, of our psyches.
00:04:07.000 And so, that would include, for example, our ability to, to utilize language, and, and the words that we use.
00:04:14.000 And, the phrases that we use, and, and the mutual understanding that we develop as a consequence of interacting with each other.
00:04:19.000 Archetyptically speaking, that structure is always, it's always dead and corrupt.
00:04:27.000 And, the reason it's dead, is because it was made by people who are dead.
00:04:32.000 And, the reason it's corrupt, is because things, fall apart of their own accord.
00:04:36.000 And, the fact that people don't aim properly, let's say, speeds along that process of degeneration.
00:04:43.000 And so, what that means, and I, I think this is something worth knowing.
00:04:48.000 Maybe I'll try standing back here, and see if that problem goes away.
00:04:53.000 Um, what that means, is that young people always have a reason to be upset and cynical about the current state of affairs.
00:05:04.000 And, and it's that way forever.
00:05:07.000 And, and, and so it's useful, I think, to consider such considerations, or such conceptualizations as the, of the, as the patriarchy in that light.
00:05:15.000 Because, it's an archetypal truth that the social structure is corrupt and incomplete.
00:05:20.000 And, and what that means, is that it's something that you have to contend with every moment, in some sense, of your life.
00:05:28.000 It's a, it's a permanent fact of existence.
00:05:31.000 And, to be upset that the structures, the social structures, or even the biological structures within which we live are incomplete and imperfect.
00:05:43.000 Is to, and to take that personally, that, that's the worst part of it.
00:05:48.000 To take that personal, personally, is a misreading of the existential condition of humankind.
00:05:53.000 Because, it's always the case that what you have been given, and, and what you live in, is degenerate, and corrupt, and in need of repair.
00:06:03.000 And, it's easier just to accept that.
00:06:07.000 Because, there's also a positive element, and the positive element is, well, you, you've been granted something, rather than nothing.
00:06:16.000 And, maybe you haven't been granted pure hell, because, especially in a culture like ours, where many things actually function quite well.
00:06:24.000 So, there's room for gratitude there, even if it's a broken machine, it's not one that's completely devastated.
00:06:29.000 And, it's not absolutely hell-bent, at every second, on your misery and destruction.
00:06:34.000 And, it easily could be, because many societies are like that.
00:06:38.000 And, so, the fact that we happen to live in one that isn't corrupt beyond imagining, is something to be eternally grateful for.
00:06:47.000 Well, so, we live inside a damaged structure.
00:06:51.000 And, we also bear responsibility for that damage, because, we don't do everything we can to constantly repair it.
00:07:00.000 And, you might say, well, that's actually one of the fundamental, you know, people say, well, what's the meaning of life?
00:07:06.000 What they really mean is, what's the positive meaning of life?
00:07:08.000 Because, as we've already discussed, the negative meanings of life are more or less self-evident.
00:07:12.000 Well, the positive meaning of life is to be found in noting the state of lack of repair of the walled city that you inhabit.
00:07:21.000 And, then, sallying forth to do something about that, to repair the breaches and to fix up the walls and to make the structure that you inhabit as secure and as productive as it possibly can be.
00:07:37.000 And, there's no shortage of opportunities to do that.
00:07:42.000 You can do that in your own mind, you can do that in your own room, you can do that in your own household, in your local community.
00:07:50.000 And, maybe if you get good at doing it at all those levels, then you can start to look beyond that.
00:07:56.000 And, so, there's challenges, that's the thing that's kind of interesting about this insufficient structure, is that it has a set of challenges built into it, because of its insufficiency, and perhaps even because of its corrupt nature, that calls forth the potential response from you of heroic adventure.
00:08:13.000 And, the heroic adventure is to man the barricades and repair the city.
00:08:18.000 And, you can always do that, it doesn't matter what your personal circumstances are, there's always something that isn't right near you, isn't correct, isn't laid out properly, that you could just fix if you wanted to.
00:08:33.000 And, one of the things that we're going to talk about, tonight, is the idea that, if you adopt the attitude, an attitude that's like that, that the role that you should play is to make things better wherever you are, however you can.
00:08:50.000 That, what would actually happen would be that things would get better wherever you are, in all sorts of ways, and that we've really, as a species, you might say, or maybe even as singular individuals, we've explored that rarely.
00:09:05.000 It isn't something that's put forth as a proposition that often, and it's quite surprising to me.
00:09:10.000 And, you know, I had an interesting experience the other day, I went to the keg, I go there because I have food allergies, and they're very careful with people who have food allergies.
00:09:19.000 And, the waiter took me to the table, and he said that he had been watching my lectures, and that's a very common experience.
00:09:28.000 And, he was happy about that, and he said that he'd had two promotions at the keg in the last four months, because he'd been watching my lectures.
00:09:35.000 And, like, I really found that an affecting experience, because, you know, you might say, well, he's working as a waiter at the keg, and there's nothing particularly heroic about that.
00:09:44.000 And, I disagree with that, actually, because, I don't care where you're located, you can do a hell of a job, and I mean that literally.
00:09:53.000 At whatever job you have, you can take whatever job you have, and you can make it a real nice little piece of absolute misery.
00:10:00.000 Or, you can do, you can act like a civilized human being, and notice that, no matter where you are, there's a richness and a complexity that's completely inexhaustible right at hand.
00:10:12.000 And, then you can take that seriously, and you can say, well, I happen to be a waiter at the keg, and perhaps that's not what I expected, and he's a young guy, and perhaps that isn't where I want to end up.
00:10:24.000 But, it's not nothing, it's a rich environment, and I can make it a lot better if I want to.
00:10:29.000 I can get along properly with my co-workers, and not gossip behind their back, and I can treat my customers properly.
00:10:35.000 And, if an opportunity comes my way, I can take it, and I can see what happens.
00:10:41.000 And so, he said that's what he'd started doing, and that things were working out much better for him.
00:10:45.000 He was in a much better job than he was three months ago, and three months, that's nothing, right?
00:10:50.000 I mean, that's a nice trajectory, it's an uphill trajectory, and that's what you want, really.
00:10:55.000 An uphill trajectory is actually even better than being somewhere good, as far as I'm concerned.
00:11:00.000 Because, one of the things that really makes your life meaningful is the clear realization that you're headed somewhere better than you are now.
00:11:07.000 And then, it's even better if you also understand that there's a direct causal relationship between the things that you're doing, and the steepness of that incline.
00:11:15.000 And so, I get a lot of letters from people like that, and they're most frequently young men, although not always.
00:11:21.000 And they say, well, you know, I've been listening to these lectures, and I decided that I'm going to try to take responsibility for my life.
00:11:28.000 And so, I've started to stop doing all the stupid things that I know that are stupid, that I know I shouldn't be doing.
00:11:35.000 And I've started doing some of the things that aren't stupid, that I know I should be doing.
00:11:39.000 Which seems pretty obvious, really, if you think about it.
00:11:41.000 But, obvious though it may be, that isn't necessarily what people do.
00:11:45.000 And then, they write and say, you can't believe what difference that makes.
00:11:49.000 And they're thrilled about it.
00:11:50.000 And so, I'm thrilled about it when I get letters like that.
00:11:52.000 Because, I really don't experience anything as better than a letter like that, or a message like that.
00:11:59.000 Because, it's so good to see things that aren't so good replaced by something better.
00:12:06.000 And I really do think it's an open question.
00:12:08.000 I truly believe it's an open question.
00:12:10.000 To what degree we could make things better, if that's what we actually aimed at doing.
00:12:15.000 You know, in some of the stories that we've covered already.
00:12:18.000 The story of Cain and Abel, in particular, is really an analysis of that problem.
00:12:22.000 Which is so remarkable.
00:12:23.000 It occurs so early in this document.
00:12:26.000 It's such a foundational story.
00:12:30.000 And it basically says, well, there's two modes of being in the world, right?
00:12:33.000 There's one where you adopt the responsibility for living properly.
00:12:40.000 For being properly.
00:12:41.000 And you make the sacrifices necessary for doing that.
00:12:44.000 And then, everything will flourish properly.
00:12:46.000 And the other one is a pathway of resentment and bitterness and rejection and murder and genocide.
00:12:53.000 And that just seems exactly right to me.
00:12:56.000 And so, if the positive path beckons, if you can actually see what it is.
00:13:01.000 If you can lower yourself enough to see what it is.
00:13:05.000 Carl Jung said once that modern people didn't see God because they didn't look low enough.
00:13:10.000 It's a phrase I really, really like.
00:13:12.000 Because people denigrate the opportunities that are right in front of them.
00:13:15.000 And there's no reason to do that.
00:13:17.000 Because what's right in front of you is the majesty of being.
00:13:21.000 That's what's right in front of you.
00:13:22.000 It's inexhaustibly complex.
00:13:24.000 And full of potential.
00:13:25.000 And there's no reason to assume that wherever you happen to be isn't as good a starting place as anywhere else.
00:13:32.000 Now, you know, I know some people have terrible, terrible lives.
00:13:35.000 They're in situations that are absolutely unbearable.
00:13:37.000 But I also do know that even situations like that can be made a hell of a lot worse by the worst kind of attitude.
00:13:45.000 That's for sure.
00:13:47.000 So, anyway.
00:13:48.000 So, that's where you are.
00:13:49.000 You're in a damaged structure.
00:13:50.000 You're a damaged structure.
00:13:51.000 You're in a damaged structure.
00:13:52.000 You're in a damaged structure.
00:13:53.000 But, you know, at least it's got some walls.
00:13:57.000 You know, you're not being fed to the lions on a regular basis.
00:14:00.000 So, that's a good thing.
00:14:01.000 And you can emerge forward, you know, heroically, magically to confront the chaos that constantly threatens the structure within which you live.
00:14:11.000 And you can free something as a consequence of that.
00:14:13.000 You can learn something.
00:14:15.000 You can strengthen yourself.
00:14:16.000 That's the other thing.
00:14:17.000 Because the way, what you're actually made of, in many ways, what informs you, what you're made of, is what you encounter when you voluntarily encounter the unknown.
00:14:27.000 And so, the more you voluntarily encounter the unknown, the more you get made of.
00:14:31.000 And the more you get made of, the more there is to you.
00:14:33.000 And then the more you're good at encountering the unknown and restructuring order and calling forth proper order out of the potential of being.
00:14:42.000 And, God, you've got to think, why wouldn't you do that, since you can do that?
00:14:47.000 And, it's an endless mystery.
00:14:48.000 You know, I think part of it is that people, well, it's also encapsulated to some degree in the story of Adam and Eve.
00:14:55.000 Because what happens to Adam is when he becomes self-conscious, right?
00:14:58.000 He becomes ashamed of himself and regards himself as a lowly sort of creature.
00:15:03.000 And there's endless reasons why people would do that.
00:15:05.000 Because, of course, we're rife with imperfection.
00:15:07.000 And so, he hides from God.
00:15:09.000 And I think that's actually the answer to the conundrum.
00:15:12.000 Which is that people don't aspire to the highest good.
00:15:16.000 Because they're deeply ashamed of themselves and their weaknesses and their insufficiencies.
00:15:23.000 And so, it's, that's not the only reason.
00:15:26.000 I mean, there's the desire to avoid responsibility and there's all the negative motivations as well.
00:15:32.000 Like resentment and hatred and the desire to make things worse.
00:15:36.000 I don't want to, you know, give us too much of a break.
00:15:39.000 But, it's something like that.
00:15:42.000 But, it's okay to not be in a very good place if what you're trying to do with that not very good place is make it better.
00:15:49.000 And one of the things I really have learned as a clinical psychologist is that you just cannot believe how powerful incremental progress is.
00:15:57.000 You can do the calculations like, it's like compound interest, you know.
00:16:01.000 If you make your life a tenth of a percent better a week, man.
00:16:04.000 In two or three years, you're in such a better place than you were that it isn't even like the same domain.
00:16:11.000 And if you keep that up for ten years or twenty years, you know, especially if you're young and you start early.
00:16:16.000 You start to straighten yourself out and fix the things that you can fix.
00:16:20.000 You can transform your lives in ways that are completely unimaginable.
00:16:24.000 And God only knows what the upper limit of that is in terms of human possibility.
00:16:29.000 Because we are amazing creatures, you know.
00:16:31.000 When we really get our act together and stop running at ten percent of our capacity, you know.
00:16:36.000 So, that's what you do.
00:16:39.000 You've got, you know, the fact that things aren't exactly the way they should be at least gives you something to do, you know.
00:16:45.000 And maybe something great to do.
00:16:48.000 Because there's no shortage of suffering and trouble that besets the world that you could conceivably ameliorate in some way.
00:16:55.000 And the utility and meaning, the utility of that and the intrinsic meaning of that is self-evident.
00:17:02.000 So, it also makes me curious about nihilism, for example, and despair.
00:17:07.000 Because, I mean, I understand those emotions.
00:17:10.000 I understand them deeply.
00:17:11.000 And the intellectual mindset that goes along with it.
00:17:13.000 But they just seem beside the point to me in some sense.
00:17:16.000 Because there are so many things that need doing.
00:17:19.000 That all you really have to do is open your eyes and look at them.
00:17:23.000 And then decide that you're actually going to do something about them.
00:17:25.000 And you might think, well, what's within my scope of influence is so trivial that it's not worth doing.
00:17:32.000 It's like, it won't stay trivial for long if you do it.
00:17:35.000 Not at all.
00:17:36.000 And I don't think it's trivial to begin with.
00:17:37.000 I don't think that any, I really don't believe that anything done right is trivial.
00:17:41.000 And my experience in my life has been that anything I actually did paid off.
00:17:47.000 It didn't pay off necessarily in the way that I expected it to pay off.
00:17:51.000 That's a whole different story.
00:17:53.000 But if it was genuine commitment to do something.
00:17:56.000 Even if it went sideways and the outcome was really something other than what I expected.
00:18:00.000 The net consequence over time was nothing but good.
00:18:03.000 So, every new frontier that can be conquered is an advance forward.
00:18:09.000 And there's no shortage of frontier.
00:18:11.000 Because we're surrounded by the unknown.
00:18:13.000 We're surrounded by our own ignorance.
00:18:15.000 And we can continually move into that domain.
00:18:18.000 Into the domain of chaos.
00:18:20.000 Or we can restructure pathological order.
00:18:23.000 And that's the secret to proper being.
00:18:26.000 And so then you encounter chaos that way.
00:18:29.000 And then you can regard yourself as the sort of entity that despite its insufficiency.
00:18:33.000 Has the capability to conquer chaos.
00:18:36.000 Despite the danger of that.
00:18:38.000 That's the other thing.
00:18:39.000 Because the fact that you're fragile is actually a precondition for your heroism.
00:18:43.000 Because if you weren't fragile then there'd be nothing heroic about doing something difficult.
00:18:46.000 Right?
00:18:47.000 Because if you couldn't be hurt or damaged or defeated or end up in failure.
00:18:52.000 Then where's the moral courage in the endeavor?
00:18:56.000 It has to be that the fragility is built into the courage.
00:19:00.000 And so it's not a reason not to engage in it at all.
00:19:04.000 In fact quite the contrary.
00:19:06.000 And so.
00:19:07.000 Well and so then you know what do you do?
00:19:11.000 Well you put the city back together.
00:19:13.000 And maybe the way you want it.
00:19:15.000 So that it's functional.
00:19:16.000 And efficient.
00:19:17.000 And beautiful.
00:19:18.000 And so that people can flourish there.
00:19:20.000 And flourish in a manner that makes them like.
00:19:23.000 That makes them.
00:19:25.000 What would you say?
00:19:27.000 That makes them feel that the unbearable catastrophe of being.
00:19:32.000 Is worth it for the experience.
00:19:34.000 That's what you're aiming at.
00:19:36.000 And it's not an impossibility.
00:19:38.000 It's not an impossibility.
00:19:40.000 And then not only that.
00:19:41.000 Not only do you repair the city when you do that.
00:19:43.000 But you make yourself the sort of thing that continually repairs the city.
00:19:48.000 And that's even better.
00:19:49.000 That's the end goal.
00:19:51.000 Because it's not the repair of the city that's the goal.
00:19:53.000 It's the transformation of yourself.
00:19:55.000 Into the thing that continually repairs the city.
00:19:58.000 And so.
00:20:00.000 There's just no reason for that not to happen.
00:20:03.000 And.
00:20:04.000 The more it can happen the better.
00:20:09.000 Well there's a.
00:20:10.000 There's an under current to this story.
00:20:12.000 And that is also the story of the flood.
00:20:15.000 And that's the fact that.
00:20:16.000 You know the city can become corrupt.
00:20:19.000 Because people don't engage in heroic endeavor.
00:20:21.000 Or perhaps because they engage in precisely the opposite of that.
00:20:24.000 Which is.
00:20:25.000 Outright destructive behavior.
00:20:27.000 And.
00:20:28.000 This is also something that's worth.
00:20:29.000 Considering too.
00:20:30.000 Because if you.
00:20:31.000 If you.
00:20:32.000 If you consider.
00:20:33.000 Your.
00:20:34.000 Your own manner of being.
00:20:36.000 You know.
00:20:38.000 You can say things to people like.
00:20:40.000 Tell.
00:20:41.000 Tell the truth and be good.
00:20:42.000 And.
00:20:43.000 Those aren't.
00:20:44.000 Those are.
00:20:45.000 Cliches.
00:20:46.000 Obviously.
00:20:47.000 And.
00:20:48.000 Their cliches.
00:20:49.000 But.
00:20:50.000 You can take them apart.
00:20:51.000 And.
00:20:52.000 Utilize them in a manner that stops being a cliche.
00:20:54.000 And.
00:20:55.000 You do that by.
00:20:56.000 Being more humble about.
00:20:57.000 Them.
00:20:58.000 I would say.
00:20:59.000 Because maybe you can't tell the truth.
00:21:00.000 Because you don't know what the truth is.
00:21:02.000 But.
00:21:03.000 One thing you can do.
00:21:04.000 Is you can stop saying things that you know to be untrue.
00:21:06.000 And you might say.
00:21:07.000 Well.
00:21:08.000 How do I know that they're untrue.
00:21:09.000 And the answer to that is.
00:21:10.000 Well.
00:21:11.000 You need a whole philosophy of truth.
00:21:12.000 The elaboration of an entire philosophy of truth.
00:21:14.000 To answer that question.
00:21:15.000 And so.
00:21:16.000 We're not going to bother answering that question.
00:21:17.000 Because.
00:21:18.000 In some sense.
00:21:19.000 At the moment.
00:21:20.000 It's beside the point.
00:21:21.000 That isn't the issue.
00:21:22.000 The issue is.
00:21:23.000 There are times in your life.
00:21:24.000 Where you know that the thing that you're saying is not true.
00:21:26.000 It's a deception.
00:21:27.000 It's a lie of some sort.
00:21:28.000 And you're using it to manipulate.
00:21:30.000 Yourself.
00:21:31.000 Or another person.
00:21:32.000 Or the world.
00:21:33.000 And you're also possessed.
00:21:34.000 Fully possessed of the idea that you can get away with it.
00:21:36.000 And there's a satanic arrogance about that.
00:21:38.000 In fact.
00:21:39.000 That is the archetypal arrogance.
00:21:41.000 That's portrayed in the mythological character of Satan.
00:21:44.000 Because Satan is precisely the archetype of the element of the mind.
00:21:49.000 That believes that it can twist and bend the structure of reality.
00:21:54.000 Without paying the price for that.
00:21:56.000 And you can't imagine anything that's more arrogant than that.
00:21:59.000 Because really.
00:22:00.000 Do you really think that you can twist the structure of a reality.
00:22:03.000 And that that's going to work out for you.
00:22:05.000 Without it snapping back.
00:22:06.000 It's so obvious that that can't work.
00:22:08.000 That everyone knows it.
00:22:09.000 But anyways.
00:22:10.000 Back to the initial point.
00:22:11.000 Is that.
00:22:12.000 You know.
00:22:13.000 By the rules of the game.
00:22:16.000 That you yourself are playing.
00:22:18.000 That some of the times.
00:22:19.000 You're violating the rules.
00:22:21.000 Of the game that you're playing.
00:22:23.000 And.
00:22:24.000 The first issue.
00:22:25.000 With regards to say.
00:22:26.000 Stating the truth.
00:22:27.000 Or behaving in a responsible manner.
00:22:30.000 Would be.
00:22:31.000 Merely stop cheating.
00:22:33.000 At whatever game it is.
00:22:34.000 That you've chosen to play.
00:22:36.000 That's a good start.
00:22:37.000 And that'll straighten.
00:22:38.000 That'll straighten out your life.
00:22:40.000 It'll start to straighten out your life.
00:22:42.000 And so.
00:22:46.000 Well the flood.
00:22:47.000 What.
00:22:48.000 How does the flood tie into this?
00:22:49.000 Well.
00:22:50.000 You know.
00:22:51.000 We live in a corrupt structure.
00:22:52.000 We're corrupt as individuals.
00:22:53.000 We live in a corrupt structure.
00:22:54.000 And.
00:22:55.000 Part of that corruption is just happenstance.
00:22:56.000 It's the way things fall apart.
00:22:57.000 But the other part of it is that.
00:22:59.000 Not only are we not aiming up.
00:23:01.000 We're actually aiming down.
00:23:03.000 And the flood story is a warning.
00:23:05.000 And it's a very clear warning.
00:23:06.000 And the warning is.
00:23:07.000 If you aim down.
00:23:09.000 Enough.
00:23:10.000 And then if enough of you aim down at the same time.
00:23:14.000 Everything will degenerate into something that's.
00:23:18.000 Indistinguishable from the chaos from which things emerged.
00:23:22.000 At the beginning of time.
00:23:23.000 It's something like that.
00:23:24.000 Because.
00:23:25.000 The cosmos that's presented.
00:23:27.000 In mythological representations.
00:23:29.000 Is.
00:23:30.000 Chaos versus order.
00:23:31.000 Right.
00:23:32.000 The order is on top.
00:23:33.000 You might say.
00:23:34.000 And the chaos is always underneath.
00:23:35.000 And the chaos can break through.
00:23:36.000 Or the order can crumble.
00:23:37.000 And you can fall into the chaos.
00:23:38.000 And that chaos is intermingled.
00:23:40.000 Intermingled potential.
00:23:41.000 And the way that.
00:23:42.000 You.
00:23:43.000 Destroy the order.
00:23:44.000 And let the chaos rise back up.
00:23:46.000 Which.
00:23:47.000 Which is exactly how it's portrayed in the flood story.
00:23:49.000 Is by.
00:23:51.000 Well by inhabiting the corpse of your father.
00:23:54.000 That's one mythological motif.
00:23:56.000 And feeding on the remains.
00:23:57.000 And.
00:23:58.000 With no gratitude.
00:23:59.000 And no attempt to replenish.
00:24:01.000 What it is that you're.
00:24:03.000 Taking from.
00:24:04.000 And the warning in the flood story is.
00:24:07.000 Don't do that for very long.
00:24:09.000 Because things will happen that are so awful.
00:24:11.000 You cannot possibly imagine it.
00:24:13.000 And that'll happen to you personally.
00:24:14.000 And it'll happen to your family.
00:24:15.000 And it'll happen to your community.
00:24:16.000 And it's happened to people.
00:24:17.000 Over and over throughout history.
00:24:19.000 And it's quite interesting.
00:24:20.000 You know.
00:24:21.000 It's very soon after the story of Cain and Abel.
00:24:23.000 When.
00:24:24.000 You see.
00:24:25.000 Evil enter the world in the story of Adam and Eve.
00:24:28.000 Along with self-consciousness.
00:24:29.000 And evil there is the.
00:24:30.000 The ability.
00:24:31.000 That's the knowledge of good and evil.
00:24:33.000 That's the ability to hurt other people.
00:24:35.000 Self-consciously.
00:24:36.000 To know what you're doing.
00:24:37.000 And then of course.
00:24:38.000 Instantly.
00:24:39.000 Cain takes that to the absolute extreme.
00:24:40.000 And he uses that capacity to.
00:24:42.000 To destroy.
00:24:43.000 Really.
00:24:44.000 What he loves best.
00:24:45.000 He gets.
00:24:46.000 As close as a human being can.
00:24:48.000 To destroying the divine ideal.
00:24:50.000 Because of course.
00:24:51.000 His brother is Abel.
00:24:52.000 And Abel is favored by God.
00:24:54.000 And Cain destroys him.
00:24:55.000 Which.
00:24:56.000 Cain tells God at the end of that.
00:24:57.000 Episode.
00:24:58.000 That his punishment is more than he can bear.
00:25:00.000 And I think the reason for that is.
00:25:01.000 Where are you.
00:25:02.000 Once you destroy your own ideal.
00:25:04.000 What's left for you.
00:25:06.000 There's nowhere to go.
00:25:08.000 There's no up.
00:25:09.000 And.
00:25:10.000 When there's no up.
00:25:11.000 There's a lot of down.
00:25:12.000 And you know.
00:25:13.000 There's an idea that was put forth very nicely.
00:25:15.000 In Milton's.
00:25:16.000 Paradise Lost.
00:25:17.000 When he was describing.
00:25:19.000 From a psychological perspective.
00:25:21.000 Essentially.
00:25:22.000 What hell is.
00:25:23.000 What hell is.
00:25:24.000 And hell is.
00:25:25.000 You're in hell to the degree.
00:25:27.000 That you're distant from the good.
00:25:29.000 That.
00:25:30.000 That might be a good way of thinking about it.
00:25:31.000 And.
00:25:32.000 If you destroy your own ideal.
00:25:34.000 Which you do with jealousy.
00:25:35.000 And resentment.
00:25:36.000 And.
00:25:37.000 And the desire to pull down people.
00:25:38.000 Who you would like to be.
00:25:39.000 Let's say.
00:25:40.000 Then.
00:25:41.000 You end up in a situation.
00:25:42.000 That's indistinguishable from hell.
00:25:44.000 And.
00:25:45.000 The way the story.
00:25:46.000 The biblical story unfolds.
00:25:47.000 As well.
00:25:48.000 It's.
00:25:49.000 It's.
00:25:50.000 It's Cain.
00:25:51.000 And then it's the flood.
00:25:52.000 And so.
00:25:53.000 Cain.
00:25:54.000 Adopts this mode of being.
00:25:55.000 That's antithetical to being itself.
00:25:56.000 At least to positive being itself.
00:25:57.000 He does it voluntarily.
00:25:58.000 He does it.
00:25:59.000 Knowing full well.
00:26:00.000 What he's doing.
00:26:01.000 And the net consequence of this.
00:26:03.000 That as it ripples through the entire social structure.
00:26:06.000 Is that.
00:26:07.000 God stands back and says.
00:26:08.000 This whole thing has got so bad.
00:26:10.000 The only thing we can do is.
00:26:11.000 Is wipe it to the ground.
00:26:12.000 And.
00:26:13.000 That is.
00:26:14.000 That is no joke.
00:26:15.000 That's exactly how things work.
00:26:17.000 And.
00:26:18.000 One of the things that's extraordinarily terrifying.
00:26:20.000 About that sequence of.
00:26:21.000 Stories.
00:26:22.000 And I believe this to be true.
00:26:23.000 I think I.
00:26:24.000 Realized this independently.
00:26:26.000 Of any.
00:26:27.000 Of the analysis that I was doing.
00:26:28.000 Of mythological stories.
00:26:29.000 Because.
00:26:30.000 I looked at what happened in places.
00:26:31.000 Like the Soviet Union.
00:26:32.000 And Maoist China.
00:26:33.000 And.
00:26:34.000 In Nazi Germany.
00:26:35.000 And.
00:26:36.000 The most.
00:26:37.000 Penetrating.
00:26:38.000 Observers.
00:26:39.000 Of those societies.
00:26:40.000 The people who were most.
00:26:41.000 Interested in.
00:26:42.000 How it was.
00:26:43.000 That those absolute catastrophes.
00:26:44.000 Came about.
00:26:45.000 All said the same thing.
00:26:47.000 It was rooted in the degeneration.
00:26:49.000 Of the individuals.
00:26:50.000 Who made up the society.
00:26:51.000 You know.
00:26:52.000 You hear.
00:26:53.000 Well.
00:26:54.000 People were following orders.
00:26:55.000 It's like.
00:26:56.000 No.
00:26:57.000 That explanation.
00:26:58.000 Doesn't hold water.
00:26:59.000 There was some truth in that.
00:27:00.000 But nowhere near as much.
00:27:01.000 As people might think.
00:27:02.000 Especially at the beginnings.
00:27:03.000 Of the process.
00:27:04.000 More it was.
00:27:05.000 That.
00:27:06.000 People decided.
00:27:07.000 Each and every one of them.
00:27:08.000 To.
00:27:09.000 Turn a blind eye.
00:27:10.000 To the catastrophes.
00:27:11.000 And to participate.
00:27:12.000 In the lies.
00:27:13.000 The societies.
00:27:14.000 And they went.
00:27:15.000 You know.
00:27:16.000 They veered their way.
00:27:17.000 Downward.
00:27:18.000 To something.
00:27:19.000 As closely.
00:27:20.000 Approximating hell.
00:27:21.000 As you could hope.
00:27:22.000 To manage.
00:27:23.000 Especially in places.
00:27:24.000 Like Nazi Germany.
00:27:25.000 And well.
00:27:26.000 In all three of those places.
00:27:27.000 In Maoist China.
00:27:28.000 And the Soviet Union.
00:27:29.000 And so.
00:27:30.000 The thing.
00:27:31.000 That's so frightening.
00:27:32.000 About.
00:27:33.000 One of the things.
00:27:34.000 That's so frightening.
00:27:35.000 About the stories.
00:27:36.000 That.
00:27:37.000 Your moral degeneration.
00:27:38.000 Contributes.
00:27:39.000 In no small way.
00:27:40.000 To the degeneration.
00:27:41.000 Of the entire cosmos.
00:27:43.000 And you say.
00:27:44.000 Well.
00:27:45.000 I would like my life.
00:27:46.000 To be meaningful.
00:27:47.000 People say that.
00:27:48.000 Really.
00:27:49.000 Would you.
00:27:50.000 Really.
00:27:51.000 You really would like.
00:27:52.000 Your life.
00:27:53.000 To be meaningful.
00:27:54.000 You think.
00:27:55.000 Maybe people would trade.
00:27:56.000 A little nihilism.
00:27:57.000 To not have to face.
00:27:58.000 That particular realization.
00:27:59.000 And I think.
00:28:00.000 People do that.
00:28:01.000 All the time.
00:28:02.000 It's a terrible weight.
00:28:03.000 To.
00:28:04.000 To realize.
00:28:05.000 And.
00:28:06.000 That's the.
00:28:07.000 The price of.
00:28:08.000 Or let's say.
00:28:09.000 That's the vulnerability.
00:28:10.000 That's associated.
00:28:11.000 With our intense capacity.
00:28:12.000 To communicate.
00:28:13.000 And.
00:28:14.000 It is certainly.
00:28:15.000 Possible.
00:28:16.000 That the.
00:28:17.000 Ripples.
00:28:18.000 Of our individual actions.
00:28:19.000 Have.
00:28:20.000 Consequences.
00:28:21.000 That are far beyond.
00:28:22.000 The limits.
00:28:23.000 Of our.
00:28:24.000 Immediate consciousness.
00:28:25.000 And I also think.
00:28:26.000 People know that too.
00:28:27.000 They know that.
00:28:28.000 In the way.
00:28:29.000 That people know things.
00:28:30.000 When they don't want to know them.
00:28:32.000 Which means.
00:28:33.000 They know them embodied.
00:28:34.000 They can feel them.
00:28:35.000 They can sense them.
00:28:36.000 They have an emotional response.
00:28:37.000 To them.
00:28:38.000 But there's no damn way.
00:28:39.000 They're going to let them.
00:28:40.000 Become articulate.
00:28:41.000 Because they don't.
00:28:42.000 Want to know.
00:28:43.000 And when you're feeling guilty.
00:28:44.000 And ashamed.
00:28:45.000 About the things you've done.
00:28:46.000 Or not done.
00:28:47.000 And I know that can get out of hand.
00:28:48.000 As well.
00:28:49.000 The crooked little part of you.
00:28:50.000 That's aiming.
00:28:51.000 At the worst.
00:28:52.000 Possible outcome.
00:28:53.000 You know.
00:28:54.000 One of the things.
00:28:55.000 Jung said.
00:28:56.000 About the shadow.
00:28:57.000 You know.
00:28:58.000 That Jung's famous idea.
00:28:59.000 That everyone has a dark side.
00:29:00.000 And that that dark side.
00:29:01.000 Needs to be incorporated.
00:29:02.000 And made conscious.
00:29:03.000 Jung said.
00:29:04.000 The shadow of the human being.
00:29:07.000 Reaches all the way to hell.
00:29:09.000 And he actually.
00:29:10.000 That's the thing.
00:29:11.000 That's so interesting.
00:29:12.000 About reading Carl Jung.
00:29:13.000 Is.
00:29:14.000 It means what he says.
00:29:15.000 It's not a metaphor.
00:29:16.000 It's like.
00:29:17.000 The part of you.
00:29:19.000 That's twisted against being.
00:29:21.000 Is aligned.
00:29:22.000 With the part of.
00:29:23.000 The cosmos.
00:29:24.000 Let's say.
00:29:25.000 The conscious cosmos.
00:29:26.000 That's aiming.
00:29:27.000 At making everything.
00:29:28.000 As terrible.
00:29:29.000 As it can possibly be.
00:29:30.000 And you know.
00:29:31.000 It's a terrible shock.
00:29:32.000 To realize that.
00:29:33.000 It's partly why.
00:29:34.000 People don't realize it.
00:29:35.000 It's.
00:29:36.000 It's something that.
00:29:37.000 People keep.
00:29:38.000 At an arm's length.
00:29:39.000 It's.
00:29:40.000 It's the same.
00:29:41.000 As recognizing yourself.
00:29:42.000 As a Nazi concentration.
00:29:43.000 As a camp guard.
00:29:44.000 Which is a very useful exercise.
00:29:45.000 Because.
00:29:46.000 There's absolutely no reason.
00:29:47.000 Why you couldn't.
00:29:48.000 Have been.
00:29:49.000 Or still could be.
00:29:50.000 One.
00:29:51.000 So.
00:29:52.000 And if you think otherwise.
00:29:53.000 Then.
00:29:54.000 All the more reason.
00:29:55.000 For assuming.
00:29:56.000 That you would be.
00:29:57.000 Unable to resist.
00:29:58.000 The temptation.
00:29:59.000 If it was in fact.
00:30:00.000 Offered to you.
00:30:01.000 And if you don't think.
00:30:02.000 It's a temptation.
00:30:03.000 Then.
00:30:04.000 Then there's so much.
00:30:05.000 That you don't know.
00:30:06.000 About human beings.
00:30:07.000 That you're not even.
00:30:08.000 In the game.
00:30:09.000 Because.
00:30:10.000 If it wasn't a temptation.
00:30:11.000 Then people.
00:30:12.000 Plenty of people.
00:30:13.000 Did it.
00:30:14.000 And it's no wonder.
00:30:15.000 So.
00:30:20.000 So things get serious.
00:30:21.000 In Genesis.
00:30:22.000 Very very rapidly.
00:30:23.000 And.
00:30:24.000 And.
00:30:25.000 The depth of the seriousness.
00:30:26.000 Is.
00:30:27.000 Ultimate.
00:30:28.000 Archetypal.
00:30:29.000 As serious.
00:30:30.000 As it can get.
00:30:31.000 As serious.
00:30:32.000 As it can get.
00:30:34.000 The.
00:30:35.000 The story of Noah.
00:30:36.000 And.
00:30:37.000 And.
00:30:38.000 The flood.
00:30:39.000 Opens.
00:30:40.000 In a fragmentary manner.
00:30:41.000 And I believe.
00:30:42.000 That these passages.
00:30:43.000 Are.
00:30:44.000 Part of a.
00:30:45.000 Longer story.
00:30:46.000 That.
00:30:47.000 We only have.
00:30:48.000 Bits and pieces of.
00:30:49.000 And.
00:30:50.000 It.
00:30:51.000 It.
00:30:52.000 It's.
00:30:53.000 It's.
00:30:54.000 It's parts of more than one story.
00:30:55.000 And.
00:30:56.000 It starts.
00:30:57.000 Like this.
00:30:58.000 It came to pass.
00:30:59.000 When men began to multiply.
00:31:00.000 On the face of the earth.
00:31:01.000 And.
00:31:02.000 And daughters were born unto them.
00:31:03.000 That the sons of God.
00:31:04.000 Saw the daughters.
00:31:05.000 Of men.
00:31:06.000 That they were fair.
00:31:07.000 And.
00:31:08.000 Which they chose.
00:31:09.000 Now.
00:31:10.000 There's an idea there.
00:31:11.000 There's two ways.
00:31:12.000 Of looking at the past.
00:31:14.000 And.
00:31:15.000 You can kind of see that.
00:31:16.000 In.
00:31:17.000 In the political landscape.
00:31:18.000 That we inhabit.
00:31:19.000 Now.
00:31:20.000 On the more conservative end.
00:31:21.000 Of the spectrum.
00:31:22.000 People regard.
00:31:23.000 The past.
00:31:24.000 As the land of giants.
00:31:25.000 Right.
00:31:26.000 They were.
00:31:27.000 The heroes of the past.
00:31:28.000 Who established.
00:31:29.000 The current conditions.
00:31:30.000 That we exist in.
00:31:31.000 And.
00:31:32.000 Then.
00:31:33.000 The people on the left.
00:31:34.000 Are.
00:31:35.000 Are more.
00:31:36.000 Concerned.
00:31:37.000 Corruption.
00:31:38.000 That's come down.
00:31:39.000 Through the centuries.
00:31:40.000 And.
00:31:41.000 Both of those perspectives.
00:31:42.000 Are.
00:31:43.000 Are accurate.
00:31:44.000 You can say.
00:31:45.000 Well.
00:31:46.000 There were.
00:31:47.000 There.
00:31:48.000 There were.
00:31:49.000 The great heroes of the past.
00:31:50.000 Who established.
00:31:51.000 Our modes of being.
00:31:52.000 You can think of them.
00:31:53.000 As composite beings.
00:31:54.000 If you want.
00:31:55.000 That's fine.
00:31:56.000 That's a perfectly reasonable.
00:31:57.000 Way of thinking about it.
00:31:58.000 And.
00:31:59.000 You can also.
00:32:00.000 Think of the.
00:32:01.000 Of the accumulation.
00:32:02.000 Of corruption.
00:32:03.000 And evil.
00:32:04.000 That's come along.
00:32:05.000 The centuries as well.
00:32:06.000 To the daughters of men.
00:32:07.000 That they were fair.
00:32:08.000 And they took them wives.
00:32:09.000 Of.
00:32:10.000 All of which they chose.
00:32:11.000 Then this.
00:32:13.000 Statement.
00:32:15.000 Comes in.
00:32:16.000 As somewhat of a non sequitur.
00:32:18.000 And the Lord said.
00:32:19.000 My spirit shall not always strive with man.
00:32:21.000 For that he is also flesh.
00:32:23.000 Yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
00:32:25.000 And.
00:32:26.000 I looked at.
00:32:27.000 A variety of interpretations.
00:32:28.000 Of that line.
00:32:29.000 Because it doesn't seem to follow.
00:32:30.000 So clearly.
00:32:31.000 From the previous line.
00:32:32.000 And exactly what it means.
00:32:33.000 Isn't.
00:32:34.000 Obvious.
00:32:35.000 But.
00:32:36.000 It seems to be.
00:32:37.000 The first line.
00:32:38.000 Talks about.
00:32:39.000 The heroes of the past.
00:32:40.000 And.
00:32:41.000 And.
00:32:42.000 The second line.
00:32:43.000 Says.
00:32:44.000 Wait a second.
00:32:45.000 There's something corrupt.
00:32:46.000 About.
00:32:47.000 The human mode of being.
00:32:48.000 And.
00:32:49.000 One of the consequences.
00:32:50.000 Of that.
00:32:51.000 As far as God.
00:32:52.000 Is concerned.
00:32:53.000 Conditions under which.
00:32:54.000 The divine spirit.
00:32:56.000 Will not.
00:32:57.000 Strive with man.
00:32:58.000 What.
00:32:59.000 What that means.
00:33:00.000 Is.
00:33:01.000 There are conditions under which.
00:33:02.000 Let's say.
00:33:03.000 The.
00:33:04.000 I don't think.
00:33:05.000 There's any other way.
00:33:06.000 Of.
00:33:07.000 Putting it.
00:33:08.000 Is.
00:33:09.000 The divine impulse.
00:33:10.000 Towards the good.
00:33:11.000 Will abandon you.
00:33:12.000 Because of things.
00:33:13.000 That you've done.
00:33:14.000 And then.
00:33:15.000 The secondary.
00:33:16.000 Consideration.
00:33:17.000 Here.
00:33:18.000 Is that.
00:33:19.000 Perhaps.
00:33:20.000 Because of the.
00:33:21.000 Degeneration of people.
00:33:22.000 That the.
00:33:23.000 Spirit.
00:33:24.000 That inhabits us.
00:33:25.000 Will only do so.
00:33:26.000 For a limited amount.
00:33:27.000 Of time.
00:33:28.000 And that's tangled.
00:33:29.000 In a strange way.
00:33:30.000 In with the idea.
00:33:31.000 Of.
00:33:32.000 Human moral culpability.
00:33:33.000 And that's posed.
00:33:34.000 Against.
00:33:35.000 The notion.
00:33:36.000 Of the giants.
00:33:37.000 Of the past.
00:33:38.000 And then it.
00:33:39.000 Returns to the giant idea.
00:33:40.000 The narrative.
00:33:41.000 Returns to the giant idea.
00:33:42.000 And reads.
00:33:43.000 There were giants.
00:33:44.000 In the earth.
00:33:45.000 In those days.
00:33:46.000 And also.
00:33:47.000 After that.
00:33:48.000 When the sons of men.
00:33:49.000 Came in.
00:33:50.000 Unto the daughters of men.
00:33:51.000 Of renown.
00:33:52.000 And that's the end.
00:33:54.000 Of that sequence.
00:33:55.000 Of fragments.
00:33:56.000 It's very.
00:33:57.000 Broken.
00:33:58.000 But you can see.
00:34:00.000 A dual narrative.
00:34:01.000 Underneath it.
00:34:02.000 And.
00:34:03.000 And.
00:34:04.000 One of the narratives.
00:34:05.000 Is that.
00:34:06.000 There's the kind.
00:34:07.000 Of corruption.
00:34:08.000 Despite.
00:34:09.000 The giant.
00:34:10.000 The nature.
00:34:11.000 Of the giants.
00:34:12.000 Of the past.
00:34:13.000 There's the kind.
00:34:14.000 Of corruption.
00:34:15.000 Lurking.
00:34:16.000 Would cause.
00:34:17.000 God.
00:34:18.000 To withhold.
00:34:19.000 His grace.
00:34:20.000 And allow.
00:34:21.000 Men.
00:34:22.000 To deteriorate.
00:34:23.000 And.
00:34:24.000 And that sets.
00:34:25.000 The stage.
00:34:26.000 For Noah.
00:34:27.000 And the flood.
00:34:28.000 And God saw.
00:34:29.000 That the wickedness.
00:34:30.000 Of man.
00:34:31.000 Imagination.
00:34:32.000 Of the thoughts.
00:34:33.000 Of his heart.
00:34:34.000 Was only evil.
00:34:35.000 Continually.
00:34:36.000 You know.
00:34:38.000 One of the things.
00:34:39.000 I really didn't like.
00:34:40.000 About going to church.
00:34:41.000 When I was a kid.
00:34:42.000 I went to a pretty.
00:34:43.000 Moderate church.
00:34:44.000 It was the united church.
00:34:45.000 Which has hardly.
00:34:46.000 Even become a church.
00:34:47.000 Now.
00:34:48.000 It's so.
00:34:49.000 Moderate.
00:34:50.000 One of the things.
00:34:51.000 I didn't like.
00:34:52.000 Was the constant.
00:34:53.000 Harping.
00:34:54.000 By the.
00:34:55.000 Ministry.
00:34:56.000 On the.
00:34:57.000 Sinful nature.
00:34:58.000 Of human beings.
00:34:59.000 Like.
00:35:00.000 It didn't speak.
00:35:01.000 To me.
00:35:02.000 Properly.
00:35:03.000 Partly.
00:35:04.000 Because I really.
00:35:05.000 Didn't understand.
00:35:06.000 What it meant.
00:35:07.000 And partly.
00:35:08.000 Because it seemed.
00:35:09.000 Well.
00:35:10.000 Sort of.
00:35:11.000 What would you say.
00:35:12.000 Was self.
00:35:13.000 Flagellating.
00:35:14.000 In an.
00:35:15.000 Attractive way.
00:35:16.000 I don't know.
00:35:17.000 If there is.
00:35:18.000 An attractive way.
00:35:19.000 It was.
00:35:20.000 It.
00:35:21.000 And there was something about it.
00:35:22.000 That was also.
00:35:23.000 Wrote.
00:35:24.000 And.
00:35:25.000 And fake.
00:35:26.000 That I didn't like.
00:35:27.000 But.
00:35:28.000 You know.
00:35:29.000 In later years.
00:35:30.000 I thought about that more.
00:35:31.000 And I started to understand.
00:35:32.000 That.
00:35:33.000 There was some real utility.
00:35:34.000 In.
00:35:35.000 Asking people.
00:35:36.000 To.
00:35:37.000 Keep.
00:35:38.000 The evil.
00:35:39.000 That they're doing.
00:35:40.000 Clear.
00:35:41.000 And conscious.
00:35:42.000 In the forefront.
00:35:43.000 Of their imagination.
00:35:44.000 I think.
00:35:45.000 I mentioned to you guys.
00:35:46.000 Last week.
00:35:47.000 This little.
00:35:48.000 Mesopotamian.
00:35:49.000 Culture.
00:35:50.000 Surrounding the emperor.
00:35:51.000 The new year's festival.
00:35:52.000 They would take the emperor.
00:35:53.000 Outside of the walled city.
00:35:55.000 And strip him of his.
00:35:57.000 Garb.
00:35:58.000 So that he was reduced.
00:35:59.000 To just.
00:36:00.000 An ordinary man.
00:36:01.000 And then.
00:36:02.000 Humiliate him.
00:36:03.000 Richly.
00:36:04.000 And then ask him.
00:36:05.000 How it was.
00:36:06.000 Over the last year.
00:36:07.000 That he wasn't.
00:36:08.000 A spectacular embodiment.
00:36:10.000 Of Marduk.
00:36:11.000 And Marduk.
00:36:12.000 Was the Mesopotamian deity.
00:36:13.000 Who.
00:36:14.000 Out of chaos.
00:36:15.000 Essentially.
00:36:16.000 And the emperor.
00:36:17.000 Was supposed to sit.
00:36:18.000 And think.
00:36:19.000 Okay.
00:36:20.000 Well.
00:36:21.000 You know.
00:36:22.000 I'm emperor.
00:36:23.000 And everything.
00:36:24.000 I should be doing.
00:36:25.000 A good job.
00:36:26.000 And probably.
00:36:27.000 I'm coming up short.
00:36:28.000 In a bunch of ways.
00:36:29.000 I should be very.
00:36:30.000 Very.
00:36:31.000 Cognizant.
00:36:32.000 Of.
00:36:33.000 How I'm failing.
00:36:34.000 To live up.
00:36:35.000 To the ideal.
00:36:36.000 And that is.
00:36:37.000 What that call.
00:36:38.000 That constant clarion call.
00:36:39.000 That's.
00:36:40.000 Degenerated.
00:36:41.000 I would say.
00:36:42.000 In institutional.
00:36:43.000 Christianity.
00:36:44.000 That was actually.
00:36:45.000 The idea.
00:36:46.000 Was.
00:36:47.000 Look.
00:36:48.000 There's a bunch of ways.
00:36:49.000 That you're not being.
00:36:50.000 Everything you could be.
00:36:51.000 And.
00:36:52.000 It is not supposed to be.
00:36:53.000 A whip.
00:36:54.000 To knock.
00:36:55.000 Down.
00:36:56.000 Your pride.
00:36:57.000 Things.
00:36:58.000 It's more like.
00:36:59.000 A call.
00:37:00.000 To the.
00:37:01.000 Opposite.
00:37:02.000 It's like.
00:37:03.000 Well.
00:37:04.000 You should stop.
00:37:05.000 Doing those things.
00:37:06.000 Because you could be.
00:37:07.000 So much more.
00:37:08.000 Than you are.
00:37:09.000 And that would be.
00:37:10.000 So much better.
00:37:11.000 For you.
00:37:12.000 And everyone else.
00:37:13.000 That it's just.
00:37:14.000 It's just not good.
00:37:15.000 That you continue.
00:37:16.000 Doing these things.
00:37:17.000 Continue breaking.
00:37:18.000 Your own rules.
00:37:19.000 Let's say.
00:37:20.000 Because.
00:37:21.000 We could certainly.
00:37:22.000 As I said.
00:37:23.000 We could start.
00:37:24.000 This game.
00:37:25.000 By assuming.
00:37:26.000 It's a terrifying thing.
00:37:27.000 To do.
00:37:28.000 But if you watch yourself.
00:37:29.000 You'll see.
00:37:30.000 You lie a lot.
00:37:32.000 Like.
00:37:33.000 When I learned this.
00:37:34.000 To begin with.
00:37:35.000 I was in my 20s.
00:37:36.000 And I was.
00:37:37.000 I'm a smart person.
00:37:38.000 And.
00:37:39.000 I was very proud of that.
00:37:40.000 Um.
00:37:41.000 Because I was also.
00:37:42.000 A small person.
00:37:43.000 I.
00:37:44.000 I was.
00:37:45.000 Moved ahead.
00:37:46.000 One year in school.
00:37:47.000 And.
00:37:48.000 I was.
00:37:49.000 A small person.
00:37:50.000 To begin with.
00:37:51.000 A small person.
00:37:52.000 And.
00:37:53.000 And.
00:37:54.000 Also.
00:37:55.000 Very mouthy.
00:37:56.000 Which.
00:37:57.000 Might not come.
00:37:58.000 As much of a surprise.
00:37:59.000 And somewhat provocative.
00:38:00.000 And so.
00:38:01.000 You know.
00:38:02.000 And I got.
00:38:03.000 Pushed around.
00:38:04.000 A fair bit.
00:38:05.000 Because.
00:38:06.000 If you're.
00:38:07.000 Really.
00:38:08.000 Effectively.
00:38:09.000 Mouthy.
00:38:10.000 With large.
00:38:11.000 Obnoxious.
00:38:12.000 People.
00:38:13.000 Then they tend to.
00:38:14.000 Respond.
00:38:15.000 In a relatively negative.
00:38:16.000 Physical way.
00:38:17.000 And so.
00:38:18.000 That sort of thing.
00:38:19.000 Was happening to me.
00:38:20.000 A fair bit.
00:38:21.000 And.
00:38:22.000 But I was quite.
00:38:23.000 I was quite proud.
00:38:24.000 Of the fact.
00:38:25.000 That I.
00:38:26.000 I was.
00:38:27.000 I had some intellectual power.
00:38:28.000 And.
00:38:29.000 That.
00:38:30.000 It was then.
00:38:31.000 In my 20s.
00:38:32.000 When I learned.
00:38:33.000 About some of the danger.
00:38:34.000 Of that.
00:38:35.000 In Milton's.
00:38:36.000 Paradise Lost.
00:38:37.000 And I started to understand.
00:38:38.000 The.
00:38:39.000 The danger.
00:38:40.000 Of the intellect.
00:38:41.000 And the danger.
00:38:42.000 Of the intellect.
00:38:43.000 As far as I can tell.
00:38:44.000 Is that it tends.
00:38:45.000 Towards.
00:38:46.000 Pride and arrogance.
00:38:47.000 And it also.
00:38:48.000 Tends to fall in love.
00:38:49.000 With it's own productions.
00:38:50.000 And so.
00:38:51.000 That's actually.
00:38:52.000 Lucifer.
00:38:53.000 In Paradise Lost.
00:38:54.000 That's Lucifer.
00:38:55.000 Lucifer.
00:38:56.000 Is the intellect.
00:38:57.000 That falls in love.
00:38:58.000 With it's own productions.
00:38:59.000 And then.
00:39:00.000 Assumes.
00:39:01.000 That there's nothing.
00:39:02.000 Outside.
00:39:03.000 Of what it thinks.
00:39:04.000 Everything works.
00:39:05.000 And we're going to implement it.
00:39:06.000 And that'll bring about.
00:39:07.000 Heaven on earth.
00:39:08.000 Right.
00:39:09.000 That's.
00:39:10.000 That's.
00:39:11.000 That's.
00:39:12.000 The totalitarian mindset.
00:39:13.000 And that's.
00:39:14.000 Associated with.
00:39:15.000 Intellectual arrogance.
00:39:16.000 And.
00:39:17.000 Another.
00:39:18.000 At the same time.
00:39:19.000 Another thing.
00:39:20.000 Was happening to me.
00:39:21.000 So.
00:39:22.000 I was noticing that.
00:39:23.000 I started to understand.
00:39:24.000 What that meant.
00:39:25.000 That there was.
00:39:26.000 More to life.
00:39:27.000 Than.
00:39:28.000 The intellect.
00:39:29.000 Much more.
00:39:30.000 Because I.
00:39:31.000 Smoked too much.
00:39:32.000 And I drank too much.
00:39:33.000 And I weighed like 130 pounds.
00:39:34.000 I wasn't in good physical shape.
00:39:35.000 And.
00:39:36.000 Like.
00:39:37.000 I had a lot of things to do.
00:39:38.000 When I went to graduate school.
00:39:39.000 To put myself together.
00:39:40.000 At the same time.
00:39:41.000 I was trying to understand.
00:39:42.000 Why.
00:39:43.000 Things had gone.
00:39:44.000 So crazily wrong.
00:39:45.000 With the world.
00:39:46.000 It's encapsulation.
00:39:47.000 In the cold war.
00:39:48.000 And.
00:39:49.000 What role.
00:39:50.000 I might be playing in that.
00:39:51.000 If any.
00:39:52.000 Or.
00:39:53.000 What role.
00:39:54.000 Any of us.
00:39:55.000 Were playing in that.
00:39:56.000 Um.
00:39:57.000 At the same time.
00:39:58.000 I was.
00:39:59.000 Working out of prison.
00:40:00.000 Only.
00:40:01.000 A little bit.
00:40:02.000 I worked with.
00:40:03.000 This crazy psychologist.
00:40:04.000 Um.
00:40:05.000 He.
00:40:06.000 He used to put jokes.
00:40:07.000 On his multiple choice tests.
00:40:09.000 He was a really eccentric guy.
00:40:10.000 But.
00:40:11.000 I really liked his courses.
00:40:12.000 He.
00:40:13.000 And.
00:40:14.000 He.
00:40:15.000 He taught a course on creativity.
00:40:16.000 And he was also a prison psychologist.
00:40:17.000 And.
00:40:18.000 He was an eccentric guy.
00:40:19.000 And.
00:40:20.000 He.
00:40:21.000 For some reason.
00:40:22.000 Liked me.
00:40:23.000 And.
00:40:24.000 Maybe because I was eccentric too.
00:40:25.000 And.
00:40:26.000 He invited me to go out.
00:40:27.000 To the Edmonton maximum security prison.
00:40:28.000 With him.
00:40:29.000 A couple of times.
00:40:30.000 Which I did.
00:40:31.000 And.
00:40:32.000 That was a very interesting experience.
00:40:33.000 Because I was trying to figure out.
00:40:34.000 What role.
00:40:35.000 Each individual's behavior.
00:40:36.000 Bore.
00:40:37.000 To the pathology.
00:40:38.000 Of the group.
00:40:39.000 It was something like that.
00:40:40.000 And.
00:40:41.000 I went out there.
00:40:42.000 And.
00:40:43.000 I met a little guy.
00:40:45.000 Smaller than me.
00:40:46.000 I was a little bigger by then.
00:40:48.000 And.
00:40:49.000 He was a pretty innocuous guy.
00:40:50.000 And.
00:40:51.000 What had happened.
00:40:52.000 Was.
00:40:53.000 I was out in this.
00:40:54.000 Gymnasium.
00:40:55.000 It looks like a high school.
00:40:56.000 The prison.
00:40:57.000 Which is.
00:40:58.000 Really quite telling.
00:40:59.000 In my estimation.
00:41:00.000 But.
00:41:01.000 And.
00:41:02.000 There were all these.
00:41:03.000 Like.
00:41:04.000 Monsters in there.
00:41:05.000 Weight lifting.
00:41:06.000 A scar.
00:41:07.000 Running down the middle.
00:41:08.000 Of his chest.
00:41:09.000 It looked like.
00:41:10.000 Someone had to hit him.
00:41:11.000 With an axe.
00:41:12.000 And.
00:41:13.000 You know.
00:41:14.000 And.
00:41:15.000 I was in there.
00:41:16.000 And.
00:41:17.000 And.
00:41:18.000 Yeah.
00:41:19.000 It was like an 1890s.
00:41:20.000 Sherlock Holmes cape.
00:41:21.000 And.
00:41:22.000 It was really like.
00:41:23.000 It was from the 1890s.
00:41:24.000 Because this little village.
00:41:25.000 Was up on a hill.
00:41:26.000 It was a walled city.
00:41:27.000 On a hill.
00:41:28.000 And they sold these things.
00:41:29.000 And I don't think.
00:41:30.000 They changed the style.
00:41:31.000 Since 1890.
00:41:32.000 And so.
00:41:33.000 I thought they were really cool.
00:41:34.000 And so.
00:41:35.000 I was wearing that.
00:41:36.000 Which.
00:41:37.000 Wasn't.
00:41:38.000 Perhaps.
00:41:39.000 The most.
00:41:40.000 Conservative.
00:41:41.000 To dawn.
00:41:42.000 If you're going to wear.
00:41:43.000 If you're going to go to a maximum security prison.
00:41:45.000 So anyways.
00:41:46.000 I was in the gymnasium.
00:41:47.000 And the.
00:41:48.000 Psychologist.
00:41:49.000 Left.
00:41:50.000 And God only knows.
00:41:51.000 I mean.
00:41:52.000 That's what he was like.
00:41:53.000 And.
00:41:54.000 All these guys came.
00:41:55.000 All these guys came around me.
00:41:56.000 You know.
00:41:57.000 And.
00:41:58.000 Their.
00:41:59.000 Prison clothes.
00:42:00.000 For my cape.
00:42:01.000 And.
00:42:02.000 It was.
00:42:03.000 It was like.
00:42:04.000 I was being made an offer.
00:42:05.000 I couldn't refuse.
00:42:06.000 You know.
00:42:07.000 And so.
00:42:08.000 I didn't.
00:42:09.000 I didn't really know what to do.
00:42:10.000 And then this little guy.
00:42:11.000 Said something like.
00:42:12.000 That the psychologist.
00:42:13.000 Sent me to come and.
00:42:14.000 Take you away.
00:42:15.000 Or something like that.
00:42:16.000 And so I thought.
00:42:17.000 Well.
00:42:18.000 Better.
00:42:19.000 This.
00:42:20.000 Little guy.
00:42:21.000 Than all these monsters.
00:42:22.000 So.
00:42:23.000 We.
00:42:24.000 We went outside the gym.
00:42:25.000 Through some doors.
00:42:26.000 Like school doors.
00:42:27.000 To the.
00:42:28.000 Exercise yard.
00:42:29.000 I guess.
00:42:30.000 And we were wandering along.
00:42:31.000 And he was talking to me.
00:42:32.000 And he seemed like.
00:42:33.000 A kind of an innocuous guy.
00:42:34.000 And then the psychologist.
00:42:35.000 Showed up at the door.
00:42:36.000 And motioned us back.
00:42:37.000 And so.
00:42:38.000 Which was kind of a relief.
00:42:39.000 And so.
00:42:40.000 I went into his office.
00:42:41.000 And he said.
00:42:42.000 You know that guy.
00:42:43.000 That you walked out in the yard with.
00:42:44.000 And I said.
00:42:45.000 Yeah.
00:42:46.000 He said.
00:42:47.000 He took two cops.
00:42:48.000 One night.
00:42:49.000 And he had them kneel down.
00:42:50.000 And while they were begging for.
00:42:51.000 Their lives.
00:42:52.000 He shot them both.
00:42:53.000 In the back of the head.
00:42:54.000 And I thought.
00:42:55.000 That's.
00:42:58.000 See.
00:42:59.000 The thing that was so interesting.
00:43:00.000 Was that he was so innocuous.
00:43:02.000 Right.
00:43:03.000 Because what you'd hope.
00:43:04.000 Is that someone like that.
00:43:05.000 Would be very much.
00:43:06.000 Unlike you.
00:43:07.000 Let's say.
00:43:08.000 And certainly.
00:43:09.000 Wouldn't be like.
00:43:10.000 Someone innocuous.
00:43:11.000 That you'd met.
00:43:12.000 What you'd want.
00:43:13.000 Is that.
00:43:14.000 The guy would be like.
00:43:15.000 You know.
00:43:16.000 Half werewolf.
00:43:17.000 And half vampire.
00:43:18.000 A killer.
00:43:19.000 But no.
00:43:20.000 He was this sort of.
00:43:21.000 Ineffectual.
00:43:22.000 Little guy.
00:43:23.000 Who.
00:43:24.000 Was certainly not.
00:43:25.000 Ineffectual.
00:43:26.000 If you gave him.
00:43:27.000 A revolver.
00:43:28.000 In the upper hand.
00:43:29.000 And so.
00:43:30.000 So that made me think.
00:43:31.000 That made me think.
00:43:32.000 A lot.
00:43:33.000 About the relationship.
00:43:34.000 Between being innocuous.
00:43:35.000 And being dangerous.
00:43:36.000 And then.
00:43:37.000 Another thing happened.
00:43:38.000 And then.
00:43:39.000 A week or two later.
00:43:40.000 I heard that he.
00:43:41.000 And a friend of his.
00:43:42.000 Had held.
00:43:43.000 Another guy down.
00:43:44.000 And.
00:43:45.000 Pulverized.
00:43:46.000 His left leg.
00:43:47.000 With a lead pipe.
00:43:48.000 Like.
00:43:49.000 Just.
00:43:50.000 Pulverized it.
00:43:51.000 And the reason for that.
00:43:52.000 Was that they thought.
00:43:53.000 That he was a snitch.
00:43:54.000 And maybe he was.
00:43:55.000 And.
00:43:56.000 That time.
00:43:57.000 I did something different.
00:43:58.000 Instead of being shocked.
00:43:59.000 And horrified by that.
00:44:00.000 Although I certainly was.
00:44:01.000 I thought.
00:44:02.000 How in the world.
00:44:03.000 Could you do that.
00:44:04.000 Because I didn't think.
00:44:05.000 I could do that.
00:44:06.000 I didn't think that.
00:44:07.000 I thought.
00:44:08.000 That there was a qualitative.
00:44:09.000 Distinction.
00:44:10.000 Between me.
00:44:11.000 And.
00:44:12.000 Those people.
00:44:13.000 And.
00:44:14.000 So I spent about.
00:44:15.000 Two weeks.
00:44:16.000 Trying to see.
00:44:17.000 If I could figure out.
00:44:18.000 Under what conditions.
00:44:19.000 I could do that.
00:44:20.000 Like.
00:44:21.000 What kind of.
00:44:22.000 Psychological.
00:44:23.000 Transformation.
00:44:24.000 I would have to undergo.
00:44:25.000 To be able to do that.
00:44:26.000 And.
00:44:27.000 So that was a meditative exercise.
00:44:28.000 Let's say.
00:44:29.000 And it.
00:44:30.000 It only took about.
00:44:31.000 Ten days.
00:44:32.000 For me to realize.
00:44:33.000 That.
00:44:34.000 Not only could I do that.
00:44:35.000 That it would be.
00:44:36.000 A hell of a lot easier.
00:44:37.000 To describe as the shadow.
00:44:38.000 Started to fall apart.
00:44:39.000 And.
00:44:40.000 That also.
00:44:41.000 Was very useful.
00:44:42.000 Because I started to.
00:44:43.000 Rec.
00:44:44.000 I started to.
00:44:45.000 Treat myself.
00:44:46.000 As somewhat.
00:44:47.000 Different entity.
00:44:48.000 Because I hadn't been aware.
00:44:49.000 Up to that point.
00:44:50.000 You know.
00:44:51.000 Because I thought.
00:44:52.000 I was a good guy.
00:44:53.000 And there's no reason.
00:44:54.000 For me to think that.
00:44:55.000 The effort.
00:44:56.000 To be a good guy.
00:44:57.000 You're just not.
00:44:58.000 It's not easy.
00:44:59.000 And so you're probably.
00:45:00.000 A moderately.
00:45:01.000 Bad guy.
00:45:02.000 And.
00:45:03.000 That's a long ways.
00:45:04.000 From being an absolutely.
00:45:05.000 Horrible guy.
00:45:06.000 But.
00:45:07.000 It's also a long ways.
00:45:08.000 From being a good guy.
00:45:09.000 To respect for myself.
00:45:10.000 After that.
00:45:11.000 Because I also.
00:45:12.000 Understood that.
00:45:13.000 There was a monstrous.
00:45:14.000 Element.
00:45:15.000 To the human psyche.
00:45:16.000 That.
00:45:17.000 That you needed.
00:45:18.000 To respect.
00:45:19.000 And.
00:45:20.000 That was.
00:45:21.000 Part of you.
00:45:22.000 That you should regard yourself.
00:45:23.000 In some sense.
00:45:24.000 As a loaded weapon.
00:45:25.000 Around children.
00:45:26.000 To regard yourself.
00:45:27.000 As a loaded weapon.
00:45:28.000 Because around children.
00:45:29.000 You are a loaded weapon.
00:45:30.000 And.
00:45:31.000 The terrible.
00:45:32.000 Experiences.
00:45:33.000 That many children.
00:45:34.000 Have with their parents.
00:45:35.000 Are testament to that.
00:45:38.000 Anyways.
00:45:39.000 About the same time.
00:45:41.000 And.
00:45:42.000 And.
00:45:43.000 I don't exactly know.
00:45:44.000 How these things.
00:45:45.000 Were causally related.
00:45:46.000 I guess it was.
00:45:47.000 Because I was trying.
00:45:48.000 To figure out.
00:45:49.000 Who I was.
00:45:50.000 And how that.
00:45:51.000 Could be fixed.
00:45:52.000 Something like that.
00:45:53.000 I started to pay.
00:45:54.000 Very careful attention.
00:45:55.000 To.
00:45:56.000 What I was saying.
00:45:57.000 I don't know.
00:45:58.000 If that happened.
00:45:59.000 Voluntarily.
00:46:00.000 Or involuntarily.
00:46:01.000 But I could feel.
00:46:02.000 A sort of split.
00:46:03.000 Developing.
00:46:04.000 In my psyche.
00:46:05.000 The split.
00:46:06.000 And I've actually.
00:46:07.000 Had students.
00:46:08.000 Tell me.
00:46:09.000 The same thing.
00:46:10.000 That has happened.
00:46:11.000 To them.
00:46:12.000 After they've.
00:46:13.000 Listened.
00:46:14.000 To some of the material.
00:46:15.000 That I've been.
00:46:16.000 Describing.
00:46:17.000 To all of you.
00:46:18.000 But.
00:46:19.000 Split into two.
00:46:20.000 Let's say.
00:46:21.000 The old me.
00:46:22.000 That was talking.
00:46:23.000 A lot.
00:46:24.000 And that.
00:46:25.000 Liked to argue.
00:46:26.000 And that liked ideas.
00:46:27.000 And there was another part.
00:46:29.000 That was watching.
00:46:30.000 That part.
00:46:31.000 Like.
00:46:32.000 Just with it's eyes open.
00:46:33.000 And neutrally judging.
00:46:35.000 And the part that was neutrally judging.
00:46:37.000 Was watching the part that was talking.
00:46:39.000 And going.
00:46:40.000 That isn't your idea.
00:46:42.000 You don't really believe that.
00:46:44.000 You don't really know what you're talking about.
00:46:46.000 That isn't true.
00:46:48.000 And.
00:46:49.000 I thought.
00:46:50.000 Hmm.
00:46:51.000 That's really interesting.
00:46:52.000 So now I've.
00:46:53.000 And that was happening to like.
00:46:54.000 95% of what I was saying.
00:46:55.000 And so then I didn't really know what to do.
00:46:56.000 I thought.
00:46:57.000 Okay.
00:46:58.000 This is strange.
00:46:59.000 So.
00:47:00.000 Maybe.
00:47:01.000 I've fragmented.
00:47:02.000 And that's just not a good thing at all.
00:47:03.000 Is there anything like that.
00:47:04.000 I mean.
00:47:05.000 It wasn't like that.
00:47:06.000 It was.
00:47:07.000 It was.
00:47:08.000 Well.
00:47:09.000 People.
00:47:10.000 Have multiple parts.
00:47:11.000 So then I had a.
00:47:12.000 This weird conundrum.
00:47:13.000 It was like.
00:47:14.000 Well.
00:47:15.000 Which of those.
00:47:16.000 Two things are me.
00:47:17.000 Is it the part that's listening.
00:47:18.000 And saying.
00:47:19.000 No.
00:47:20.000 That's.
00:47:21.000 Rubbish.
00:47:22.000 That's.
00:47:23.000 A lie.
00:47:24.000 That's.
00:47:25.000 You're doing that to impress people.
00:47:26.000 You're just trying to win the argument.
00:47:27.000 You know.
00:47:28.000 Was that me.
00:47:29.000 Or was the part that was going about.
00:47:30.000 My normal.
00:47:31.000 Verbal business.
00:47:32.000 And I didn't know.
00:47:33.000 But I decided.
00:47:34.000 I would go with the critic.
00:47:35.000 And then what I.
00:47:36.000 Tried to do.
00:47:37.000 What I learned to do.
00:47:38.000 I think.
00:47:39.000 Was to stop saying things.
00:47:41.000 That made me weak.
00:47:43.000 And now.
00:47:44.000 That.
00:47:45.000 I mean.
00:47:46.000 I'm still trying to do that.
00:47:47.000 Because I'm always.
00:47:48.000 Feeling.
00:47:49.000 When I talk.
00:47:50.000 Whether or not.
00:47:51.000 The words that I'm saying.
00:47:52.000 Are either making me align.
00:47:53.000 Or making me.
00:47:54.000 Come apart.
00:47:55.000 And.
00:47:56.000 I think the alignment.
00:47:57.000 I really do think the alignment.
00:47:58.000 Is.
00:47:59.000 I think alignment is the right way.
00:48:00.000 Of conceptualizing it.
00:48:01.000 To say things.
00:48:02.000 That are.
00:48:03.000 As true.
00:48:04.000 As you can say them.
00:48:05.000 Let's say.
00:48:06.000 Then.
00:48:07.000 They come up.
00:48:08.000 They come out.
00:48:09.000 Of the depths.
00:48:10.000 Inside of you.
00:48:11.000 Because we don't know.
00:48:12.000 Where thoughts come from.
00:48:13.000 We don't know.
00:48:14.000 How far down.
00:48:15.000 Into your substructure.
00:48:16.000 The thoughts emerge.
00:48:17.000 The processes of.
00:48:18.000 Physiological alignment.
00:48:19.000 Are necessary.
00:48:20.000 For you to speak.
00:48:21.000 From the core.
00:48:22.000 Of your being.
00:48:23.000 We don't understand.
00:48:24.000 Any of that.
00:48:25.000 We don't even conceptualize that.
00:48:26.000 But I believe.
00:48:27.000 That you can feel that.
00:48:28.000 And.
00:48:29.000 I learned some of that.
00:48:30.000 From reading.
00:48:31.000 Because he talked about.
00:48:32.000 Mental health.
00:48:33.000 In part.
00:48:34.000 Interference.
00:48:35.000 Between the.
00:48:36.000 The spiritual.
00:48:37.000 Or the.
00:48:38.000 Or the abstract.
00:48:39.000 And the physical.
00:48:40.000 That the two things were aligned.
00:48:41.000 And.
00:48:42.000 There's a lot of idea.
00:48:43.000 Of alignment.
00:48:44.000 Analytic.
00:48:45.000 And clinical thinking.
00:48:46.000 But anyways.
00:48:47.000 I decided.
00:48:48.000 That I would start.
00:48:49.000 Practicing.
00:48:50.000 Not saying things.
00:48:51.000 That would make me weak.
00:48:52.000 And what happened.
00:48:53.000 Was.
00:48:54.000 That I had to stop saying.
00:48:55.000 Almost everything.
00:48:56.000 That I was saying.
00:48:57.000 I would say.
00:48:58.000 95% of it.
00:48:59.000 It's a hell of a shock.
00:49:00.000 To wake up.
00:49:01.000 And.
00:49:02.000 I mean.
00:49:03.000 This was over a few months.
00:49:04.000 But it's a hell of a shock.
00:49:05.000 To wake up.
00:49:06.000 And realize.
00:49:07.000 That.
00:49:08.000 You're mostly.
00:49:09.000 Dead wood.
00:49:10.000 It's a shock.
00:49:11.000 You know.
00:49:12.000 And you might think.
00:49:13.000 It's like.
00:49:14.000 Well.
00:49:15.000 There's nothing left.
00:49:16.000 But a little husk.
00:49:17.000 5% of you.
00:49:18.000 It's like.
00:49:19.000 Well.
00:49:20.000 If that 5% is.
00:49:21.000 Solid.
00:49:22.000 Then maybe.
00:49:23.000 That's exactly.
00:49:24.000 What you want to have happen.
00:49:25.000 Well.
00:49:26.000 So.
00:49:27.000 I told you.
00:49:28.000 That story.
00:49:29.000 Is an elaboration.
00:49:30.000 Of this line.
00:49:31.000 And God saw.
00:49:32.000 That the wickedness.
00:49:33.000 Of man.
00:49:34.000 Was great in the earth.
00:49:35.000 And that every.
00:49:36.000 Imagination.
00:49:37.000 Of the.
00:49:38.000 Imagination.
00:49:39.000 Of the thoughts.
00:49:40.000 Of his heart.
00:49:41.000 Was only evil.
00:49:42.000 Maybe they're purer.
00:49:43.000 Than mine were.
00:49:44.000 And it's certainly possible.
00:49:45.000 I don't think.
00:49:46.000 That I'm naturally.
00:49:47.000 A particularly.
00:49:48.000 Good person.
00:49:49.000 I think.
00:49:50.000 I have to work.
00:49:51.000 At it.
00:49:52.000 Very.
00:49:53.000 Very hard.
00:49:54.000 And I don't.
00:49:55.000 Necessarily.
00:49:56.000 Think.
00:49:57.000 That everyone.
00:49:58.000 Is like that.
00:49:59.000 To some degree.
00:50:00.000 To some degree.
00:50:01.000 So.
00:50:02.000 It's worth.
00:50:03.000 Thinking about.
00:50:04.000 Just how much trouble.
00:50:05.000 Are you trying.
00:50:06.000 To cause.
00:50:07.000 You know.
00:50:08.000 And the other thing.
00:50:09.000 You might think about.
00:50:10.000 Is that.
00:50:11.000 If you're not doing.
00:50:12.000 Something important.
00:50:13.000 With your life.
00:50:14.000 The game.
00:50:15.000 That we're playing.
00:50:16.000 You get to define.
00:50:17.000 The terms.
00:50:18.000 At least.
00:50:19.000 Initially.
00:50:20.000 Maybe you're.
00:50:21.000 Prone.
00:50:22.000 To cause trouble.
00:50:23.000 Just because.
00:50:24.000 You don't have anything.
00:50:25.000 Better to do.
00:50:26.000 Because at least.
00:50:27.000 It's.
00:50:28.000 Trouble.
00:50:29.000 Is more interesting.
00:50:30.000 Than boring.
00:50:31.000 So.
00:50:32.000 If you're not.
00:50:33.000 Doing something.
00:50:34.000 If you're not.
00:50:35.000 Pushing yourself.
00:50:36.000 To the limits.
00:50:37.000 Of your capacity.
00:50:38.000 Then you have.
00:50:39.000 Plenty.
00:50:40.000 Of leftover.
00:50:41.000 What would you say.
00:50:42.000 Willpower.
00:50:43.000 Energy.
00:50:44.000 And resources.
00:50:45.000 To devote.
00:50:46.000 To causing.
00:50:47.000 Interesting.
00:50:48.000 Trouble.
00:50:49.000 And so.
00:50:50.000 Also.
00:50:51.000 I would say.
00:50:52.000 This is also.
00:50:53.000 An archetypal.
00:50:54.000 Scenario.
00:50:55.000 God saw.
00:50:56.000 That the wickedness.
00:50:57.000 Of man.
00:50:58.000 Was great.
00:50:59.000 In the earth.
00:51:00.000 Not self.
00:51:01.000 Destructive.
00:51:02.000 Because what it is.
00:51:03.000 Is an attempt.
00:51:04.000 To.
00:51:05.000 It's like.
00:51:06.000 The diagnosis.
00:51:07.000 Of an illness.
00:51:08.000 It's like.
00:51:09.000 If that does happen.
00:51:10.000 To be the case.
00:51:11.000 For you.
00:51:12.000 Or.
00:51:13.000 To some degree.
00:51:14.000 Maybe it's only.
00:51:15.000 10% of you.
00:51:16.000 Or something.
00:51:17.000 Or maybe it's 90%.
00:51:18.000 Well then.
00:51:19.000 Coming to terms.
00:51:20.000 With that is excellent.
00:51:21.000 Because then.
00:51:22.000 Maybe you can stop.
00:51:23.000 Doing it.
00:51:24.000 And what would be.
00:51:25.000 The downside.
00:51:26.000 To that.
00:51:27.000 You'd have to give up.
00:51:28.000 Your resentment.
00:51:29.000 Engaging.
00:51:30.000 And they have this feeling.
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00:51:32.000 With them.
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00:51:35.000 With them.
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00:51:40.000 Doing this in order.
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00:54:34.000 JBP.
00:54:40.000 And it repented the Lord.
00:54:41.000 That he had made man.
00:54:42.000 On the earth.
00:54:43.000 And it grieved him.
00:54:44.000 At his heart.
00:54:45.000 And the Lord said.
00:54:46.000 I will destroy man.
00:54:47.000 Whom I have created.
00:54:48.000 From the face of the earth.
00:54:49.000 Both man and beast.
00:54:50.000 And the creeping thing.
00:54:51.000 And the falls of the air.
00:54:52.000 For it repenteth me.
00:54:53.000 That I have made them.
00:54:54.000 What's the idea?
00:54:55.000 Well the idea is.
00:54:56.000 That the cosmos.
00:54:57.000 That God created.
00:54:58.000 Had.
00:54:59.000 Become corrupt.
00:55:00.000 That's a funny thing.
00:55:01.000 Because you know.
00:55:02.000 This is the other thing.
00:55:03.000 About Genesis.
00:55:04.000 That always hits me.
00:55:05.000 Is that.
00:55:06.000 That's also true.
00:55:07.000 I told you.
00:55:08.000 That the Mesopotamians.
00:55:09.000 Believe.
00:55:10.000 That human beings.
00:55:11.000 Were made out of.
00:55:12.000 The blood of.
00:55:13.000 Kingu.
00:55:14.000 Who was the worst.
00:55:15.000 Monster.
00:55:16.000 Monster.
00:55:17.000 That the dragon of chaos.
00:55:18.000 Could imagine.
00:55:19.000 But the reason.
00:55:20.000 The Mesopotamians.
00:55:21.000 Believe that.
00:55:22.000 Is because they knew.
00:55:23.000 As did the authors.
00:55:24.000 Of.
00:55:25.000 Genesis.
00:55:26.000 That.
00:55:27.000 Human beings.
00:55:28.000 Are the only creatures.
00:55:29.000 In.
00:55:30.000 The cosmos.
00:55:31.000 Let's say.
00:55:32.000 The cosmos of being.
00:55:33.000 Who are actually capable.
00:55:34.000 Of.
00:55:35.000 Deceit.
00:55:36.000 Conscious deceit.
00:55:37.000 And malevolence.
00:55:38.000 And the question is.
00:55:39.000 To what degree.
00:55:40.000 Does the expression.
00:55:41.000 Of that.
00:55:42.000 Conscious deceit.
00:55:43.000 And malevolence.
00:55:44.000 Corrupt things.
00:55:45.000 Badly.
00:55:46.000 That it would be better.
00:55:47.000 That they didn't exist.
00:55:48.000 At all.
00:55:49.000 Well.
00:55:50.000 You see stories.
00:55:52.000 There's a story.
00:55:54.000 Associated with this.
00:55:55.000 In the epic of Gilgamesh.
00:55:56.000 Associated with the flood.
00:55:57.000 That has exactly.
00:55:58.000 The same.
00:55:59.000 Underlying narrative structure.
00:56:00.000 In fact.
00:56:01.000 Some people think.
00:56:02.000 The story of Noah.
00:56:03.000 Was derived from it.
00:56:04.000 Where.
00:56:05.000 The gods.
00:56:06.000 Who created.
00:56:07.000 Repented.
00:56:08.000 Of their creation.
00:56:09.000 And determined.
00:56:10.000 That.
00:56:11.000 Erasing it.
00:56:12.000 Would be better.
00:56:13.000 Than allowing it.
00:56:14.000 To propagate.
00:56:15.000 New Melish.
00:56:16.000 Because.
00:56:17.000 The.
00:56:18.000 Early gods.
00:56:19.000 So they're.
00:56:20.000 Representatives.
00:56:21.000 Of.
00:56:22.000 Of.
00:56:23.000 The giants.
00:56:24.000 Of humanity.
00:56:25.000 I would say.
00:56:26.000 Make so much noise.
00:56:27.000 And are so careless.
00:56:28.000 That.
00:56:29.000 The original creator.
00:56:30.000 God.
00:56:31.000 Tiamat.
00:56:32.000 And her consort.
00:56:33.000 Tiamat.
00:56:34.000 Decides to.
00:56:35.000 Wipe them.
00:56:36.000 From the face.
00:56:37.000 Of the earth.
00:56:38.000 And so.
00:56:39.000 When you read.
00:56:40.000 Something like this.
00:56:41.000 If you read.
00:56:42.000 From an.
00:56:43.000 Informed.
00:56:44.000 To have a depth.
00:56:45.000 That.
00:56:46.000 Makes.
00:56:47.000 It.
00:56:48.000 It.
00:56:49.000 Transcend.
00:56:50.000 This sort of.
00:56:51.000 Archaic.
00:56:52.000 And fairy tale.
00:56:53.000 Like.
00:56:54.000 Element of the story.
00:56:55.000 It's like.
00:56:56.000 Little things.
00:56:57.000 About.
00:56:58.000 What happened.
00:56:59.000 In Nazi Germany.
00:57:00.000 And.
00:57:01.000 What happened.
00:57:02.000 When the Japanese.
00:57:03.000 Invaded.
00:57:04.000 China.
00:57:05.000 And.
00:57:06.000 Just what happened.
00:57:07.000 Generally.
00:57:08.000 In the history.
00:57:09.000 Of mankind.
00:57:10.000 And.
00:57:11.000 Things can get.
00:57:12.000 So bad.
00:57:13.000 That.
00:57:14.000 And.
00:57:15.000 When they get.
00:57:16.000 That bad.
00:57:17.000 This is the only.
00:57:18.000 Kind of language.
00:57:19.000 That works.
00:57:20.000 To describe them.
00:57:21.000 You know.
00:57:22.000 That's another thing.
00:57:23.000 That I've.
00:57:24.000 Discovered.
00:57:25.000 Working.
00:57:26.000 With my clinical clients.
00:57:27.000 Is that.
00:57:28.000 When their lives.
00:57:29.000 Are really.
00:57:30.000 Not going well.
00:57:31.000 You know.
00:57:32.000 When they're.
00:57:33.000 Close.
00:57:34.000 To suicide.
00:57:35.000 There are things.
00:57:36.000 Going on.
00:57:37.000 In the family.
00:57:38.000 That are so.
00:57:39.000 Corrupt.
00:57:40.000 And terrible.
00:57:41.000 That they reach.
00:57:42.000 Back.
00:57:43.000 Generations.
00:57:44.000 And they're.
00:57:45.000 Aimed.
00:57:46.000 At nothing.
00:57:47.000 But misery.
00:57:48.000 And destruction.
00:57:49.000 The only language.
00:57:50.000 That suffices.
00:57:51.000 Has a religious tone.
00:57:52.000 Because there's nothing else.
00:57:53.000 That's available.
00:57:54.000 To describe.
00:57:55.000 What's happening.
00:57:56.000 With the proper level.
00:57:57.000 Of seriousness.
00:57:58.000 And it might be.
00:57:59.000 That you've never.
00:58:00.000 Encountered.
00:58:01.000 A situation.
00:58:02.000 That required.
00:58:03.000 That.
00:58:04.000 Certainly.
00:58:05.000 Do everything.
00:58:06.000 You can.
00:58:07.000 To avoid.
00:58:08.000 Being.
00:58:09.000 Ensconced.
00:58:10.000 In them.
00:58:11.000 But.
00:58:12.000 They certainly.
00:58:13.000 Do exist.
00:58:14.000 And the probability.
00:58:15.000 That you'll.
00:58:16.000 Encounter.
00:58:17.000 A situation.
00:58:18.000 Like that.
00:58:19.000 Or two.
00:58:20.000 At some point.
00:58:21.000 In your life.
00:58:22.000 Is extraordinarily.
00:58:23.000 High.
00:58:24.000 You'll tangle.
00:58:25.000 With someone.
00:58:26.000 Who's.
00:58:27.000 Malevolent.
00:58:28.000 Right.
00:58:29.000 To the core.
00:58:30.000 And maybe.
00:58:31.000 It'll be you.
00:58:32.000 That is.
00:58:33.000 And that'll be.
00:58:34.000 These are the generations.
00:58:35.000 Of Noah.
00:58:36.000 Noah.
00:58:37.000 Was a just man.
00:58:38.000 And perfect.
00:58:39.000 In his generations.
00:58:40.000 And Noah.
00:58:41.000 Walked with God.
00:58:42.000 That's an interesting line.
00:58:43.000 Because.
00:58:44.000 If you remember.
00:58:45.000 Back in the story.
00:58:46.000 Of Adam and Eve.
00:58:47.000 What happens.
00:58:48.000 To Adam.
00:58:49.000 Once he eats the.
00:58:50.000 Fruit of the tree.
00:58:51.000 Of the knowledge.
00:58:52.000 Of good and evil.
00:58:53.000 And wakes up.
00:58:54.000 The scales fall from his eyes.
00:58:55.000 Become self-conscious.
00:58:56.000 Develops the knowledge.
00:58:57.000 Of good and evil.
00:58:58.000 Is.
00:58:59.000 In the garden.
00:59:00.000 And so.
00:59:01.000 Noah.
00:59:02.000 Is.
00:59:03.000 Adam.
00:59:04.000 Without the fall.
00:59:05.000 Essentially.
00:59:06.000 And there's something.
00:59:07.000 That Noah.
00:59:08.000 Is doing right.
00:59:09.000 That.
00:59:10.000 Motivates.
00:59:11.000 God.
00:59:12.000 To spare him.
00:59:13.000 Or maybe.
00:59:14.000 To show him.
00:59:15.000 A pathway.
00:59:16.000 Through the emergent chaos.
00:59:17.000 Something like that.
00:59:18.000 And.
00:59:19.000 That's worth.
00:59:20.000 Thinking about.
00:59:21.000 A lot.
00:59:22.000 Is the emergent.
00:59:23.000 Chaos.
00:59:24.000 And maybe.
00:59:25.000 That'll be.
00:59:26.000 Some terrible.
00:59:27.000 Catastrophe.
00:59:28.000 Inside your family.
00:59:29.000 Or maybe.
00:59:30.000 It'll be something.
00:59:31.000 That's.
00:59:32.000 Occurring.
00:59:33.000 On a much broader.
00:59:34.000 Social level.
00:59:35.000 But.
00:59:36.000 The chaos.
00:59:37.000 Is coming.
00:59:38.000 And what you're.
00:59:39.000 Going to want to know.
00:59:40.000 Unless you want to be.
00:59:41.000 A denizen of the chaos.
00:59:42.000 Or even a contributor.
00:59:43.000 To it.
00:59:44.000 And perhaps.
00:59:45.000 That is what you want.
00:59:46.000 Because many people.
00:59:47.000 Under those circumstances.
00:59:48.000 Choose that.
00:59:49.000 What you want.
00:59:50.000 Is to know.
00:59:51.000 How you build an ark.
00:59:52.000 And get through it.
00:59:54.000 That's what you.
00:59:56.000 If you're.
00:59:57.000 If you're.
00:59:58.000 Interested in life.
00:59:59.000 If you're interested in.
01:00:00.000 Proper being.
01:00:01.000 And you're.
01:00:02.000 Disinclined to.
01:00:04.000 Produce any more suffering.
01:00:05.000 Than necessary.
01:00:06.000 Then you want to know.
01:00:07.000 How to conduct yourself.
01:00:08.000 When the catastrophe comes.
01:00:10.000 So that you have.
01:00:11.000 A reasonable possibility.
01:00:12.000 Of.
01:00:13.000 Of moving through it.
01:00:15.000 And.
01:00:16.000 And starting anew.
01:00:17.000 So.
01:00:18.000 When.
01:00:19.000 When.
01:00:20.000 This old story.
01:00:21.000 Says.
01:00:22.000 Well.
01:00:23.000 God's not happy.
01:00:24.000 And he's going to wipe everything out.
01:00:25.000 It's like.
01:00:26.000 Well.
01:00:27.000 You might want to take that seriously.
01:00:31.000 And then when it says.
01:00:32.000 But there's one.
01:00:33.000 Person.
01:00:34.000 Who had a mode of being.
01:00:35.000 That protected him.
01:00:36.000 From that.
01:00:37.000 That's also something.
01:00:38.000 You might want to take seriously.
01:00:39.000 Because.
01:00:40.000 You might want to know.
01:00:41.000 What that mode of being is.
01:00:42.000 Because.
01:00:43.000 You might need to use it.
01:00:44.000 Things are practical.
01:00:45.000 In the deepest.
01:00:46.000 Possible sense.
01:00:47.000 They're real.
01:00:48.000 In the deepest.
01:00:49.000 Possible sense.
01:00:50.000 And practical.
01:00:51.000 In the deepest.
01:00:52.000 Possible sense.
01:00:53.000 So.
01:00:54.000 Noah walked with God.
01:00:55.000 Now.
01:00:56.000 I'm going to switch.
01:00:57.000 Way ahead.
01:00:58.000 Here.
01:00:59.000 Because.
01:01:00.000 You know.
01:01:01.000 The.
01:01:02.000 The lecture series.
01:01:03.000 That.
01:01:04.000 The bible.
01:01:05.000 Is a hyperlinked.
01:01:06.000 Text.
01:01:07.000 And everything.
01:01:08.000 Refers to everything else.
01:01:09.000 And so.
01:01:10.000 There's utility.
01:01:11.000 In reading it.
01:01:12.000 In linear order.
01:01:13.000 But it's not a linear document.
01:01:14.000 It's a document.
01:01:15.000 That.
01:01:16.000 That you can move through.
01:01:18.000 In an infinite number of.
01:01:20.000 There's an infinite number of pathways.
01:01:22.000 That.
01:01:23.000 You can use to walk through it.
01:01:25.000 And.
01:01:26.000 All of the document.
01:01:27.000 Expands upon.
01:01:28.000 And refers to all of.
01:01:30.000 The rest of the document.
01:01:31.000 And so.
01:01:32.000 I'm going to search.
01:01:33.000 Switch to the sermon on the mount.
01:01:34.000 Which I think is probably.
01:01:35.000 The key document.
01:01:36.000 In the new.
01:01:37.000 Testament.
01:01:38.000 And.
01:01:39.000 I'm going to switch to it.
01:01:40.000 Because I think.
01:01:41.000 It's the closest.
01:01:42.000 Thing.
01:01:43.000 We have.
01:01:44.000 To a fully.
01:01:45.000 Articulated.
01:01:46.000 Description.
01:01:47.000 Of what it would mean.
01:01:48.000 To walk with God.
01:01:49.000 So that you're in the ark.
01:01:51.000 When the flood comes.
01:01:52.000 It's the.
01:01:53.000 It's the.
01:01:54.000 Most fully articulated.
01:01:56.000 Realization.
01:01:57.000 Of that idea.
01:01:58.000 That.
01:01:59.000 Leaps out of the metaphorical.
01:02:00.000 Because.
01:02:01.000 If I say.
01:02:02.000 Well.
01:02:03.000 You should.
01:02:04.000 Conduct yourself.
01:02:05.000 Like Noah.
01:02:06.000 And walk with God.
01:02:07.000 And build an ark.
01:02:08.000 Obviously.
01:02:09.000 Those are poetic.
01:02:10.000 And metaphorical.
01:02:11.000 Suggestions.
01:02:12.000 And.
01:02:13.000 It's not that easy.
01:02:14.000 To bring them into practice.
01:02:15.000 Right.
01:02:16.000 It's.
01:02:17.000 The distance.
01:02:18.000 There's a big distance.
01:02:19.000 Between you.
01:02:20.000 And the archetype.
01:02:21.000 Is the archetype.
01:02:22.000 Has to be.
01:02:23.000 Differentiated.
01:02:24.000 And articulated.
01:02:25.000 So that it becomes.
01:02:26.000 Sufficiently.
01:02:27.000 Practical.
01:02:28.000 And personal.
01:02:29.000 So that you can actually.
01:02:30.000 Implement it.
01:02:31.000 Sermon on the mount.
01:02:32.000 It starts in.
01:02:33.000 Matthew 5.
01:02:34.000 And I'm not going to talk about.
01:02:35.000 Matthew 5.
01:02:36.000 I'm going to talk about.
01:02:37.000 The end of Matthew 6.
01:02:38.000 And.
01:02:39.000 Most of Matthew 7.
01:02:41.000 Verse 6.
01:02:42.000 Consider the lilies of the field.
01:02:43.000 How they grow.
01:02:44.000 They toil not.
01:02:45.000 Neither do they spin.
01:02:47.000 And yet I say unto you.
01:02:49.000 That even Solomon.
01:02:50.000 In all his glory.
01:02:51.000 Was not arrayed.
01:02:52.000 Like one of these.
01:02:54.000 Wherefore.
01:02:55.000 If God.
01:02:56.000 So clothes the grass.
01:02:57.000 Of the field.
01:02:58.000 Which today is.
01:02:59.000 And tomorrow.
01:03:00.000 Is cast into the oven.
01:03:01.000 Shall he not.
01:03:02.000 Much more.
01:03:03.000 Clothe you.
01:03:04.000 O ye of little faith.
01:03:05.000 Therefore.
01:03:06.000 Take no thought.
01:03:07.000 Saying.
01:03:08.000 What shall we eat.
01:03:09.000 Or what shall we drink.
01:03:10.000 To be clothed.
01:03:11.000 Those are famous lines.
01:03:13.000 And that's sort of.
01:03:14.000 Christ the hippie.
01:03:15.000 Right.
01:03:16.000 It's like.
01:03:17.000 Hey.
01:03:18.000 Let it all hang out.
01:03:20.000 That's an old phrase.
01:03:21.000 Do your thing.
01:03:22.000 And.
01:03:23.000 Everything will come to you.
01:03:25.000 And.
01:03:26.000 These lines have been interpreted.
01:03:28.000 In that manner.
01:03:29.000 Many times.
01:03:30.000 But that's.
01:03:31.000 Seriously.
01:03:32.000 Not.
01:03:33.000 The proper interpretation.
01:03:35.000 Because.
01:03:36.000 There's a kicker.
01:03:37.000 With this.
01:03:38.000 Injunction.
01:03:39.000 And the kicker.
01:03:40.000 Is this.
01:03:41.000 For your heavenly father.
01:03:45.000 Knows.
01:03:46.000 That you have need.
01:03:47.000 Of all these things.
01:03:48.000 But.
01:03:49.000 Seek ye first.
01:03:50.000 The kingdom of God.
01:03:51.000 And his righteousness.
01:03:52.000 And all these things.
01:03:53.000 Shall be added unto you.
01:03:54.000 That's a lot different.
01:03:55.000 Than the hippie thing.
01:03:56.000 Right.
01:03:57.000 Because.
01:03:58.000 There's a very.
01:03:59.000 Very.
01:04:00.000 Very interesting idea here.
01:04:01.000 It's.
01:04:02.000 It's certainly.
01:04:03.000 One of the most.
01:04:04.000 Profound ideas.
01:04:05.000 And the idea.
01:04:06.000 Is this.
01:04:07.000 Is that.
01:04:08.000 If you configure.
01:04:09.000 Your life.
01:04:10.000 So that.
01:04:11.000 What you are.
01:04:12.000 Genuinely doing.
01:04:13.000 Is aiming.
01:04:14.000 At the highest.
01:04:15.000 Possible.
01:04:16.000 Good.
01:04:17.000 Then the things.
01:04:18.000 That you need.
01:04:19.000 To.
01:04:20.000 To survive.
01:04:22.000 And to thrive.
01:04:23.000 On a day to day basis.
01:04:25.000 Will.
01:04:26.000 Deliver themselves.
01:04:27.000 To you.
01:04:28.000 That's a hypothesis.
01:04:29.000 And it's not.
01:04:30.000 Some simple.
01:04:31.000 Hypothesis.
01:04:32.000 Right.
01:04:33.000 Because it.
01:04:34.000 What it basically.
01:04:35.000 Says is.
01:04:36.000 If you dare.
01:04:37.000 To do the most.
01:04:38.000 Difficult thing.
01:04:39.000 That you can.
01:04:40.000 Conceptualize.
01:04:41.000 Your life.
01:04:42.000 Will work out.
01:04:43.000 Better.
01:04:44.000 Than it will.
01:04:45.000 If you do.
01:04:46.000 Anything else.
01:04:47.000 Well.
01:04:48.000 How are you.
01:04:49.000 Going to find out.
01:04:50.000 If that's true.
01:04:51.000 Well.
01:04:52.000 It's a Kierkegaardian.
01:04:53.000 Leap of faith.
01:04:54.000 There's no way.
01:04:55.000 You're going to find out.
01:04:56.000 Whether or not.
01:04:57.000 That's true.
01:04:58.000 You have to be all in.
01:04:59.000 In this game.
01:05:00.000 And so the idea is.
01:05:01.000 Seek ye first.
01:05:02.000 The kingdom of God.
01:05:03.000 And his righteousness.
01:05:04.000 It's like.
01:05:05.000 That's actually.
01:05:06.000 A fairly important.
01:05:07.000 Caution.
01:05:09.000 When you're talking about.
01:05:10.000 Not having to pay attention.
01:05:12.000 To what you're going to eat.
01:05:13.000 Or what you're going to wear.
01:05:14.000 It's like.
01:05:15.000 What it's essentially saying.
01:05:16.000 Is that those problems.
01:05:17.000 Are trivial.
01:05:18.000 In comparison.
01:05:19.000 And the probability.
01:05:20.000 Is that.
01:05:21.000 If you manifest yourself.
01:05:22.000 Properly.
01:05:23.000 In the world.
01:05:24.000 That those things will.
01:05:25.000 Come your way.
01:05:26.000 Is extraordinarily high.
01:05:27.000 And I believe.
01:05:28.000 I believe.
01:05:29.000 That that's.
01:05:30.000 Exactly right.
01:05:31.000 I mean.
01:05:32.000 I've.
01:05:33.000 I've.
01:05:34.000 Watched people.
01:05:35.000 Operate in the world.
01:05:36.000 And I would say that.
01:05:38.000 There's no more effective.
01:05:39.000 Way of operating in the world.
01:05:40.000 Than to conceptualize.
01:05:41.000 The highest good.
01:05:42.000 That you can.
01:05:43.000 And then strive.
01:05:44.000 To attain it.
01:05:45.000 There's no.
01:05:46.000 More.
01:05:47.000 Practical.
01:05:48.000 Pathway.
01:05:49.000 To the kind of success.
01:05:51.000 That you.
01:05:52.000 Could have.
01:05:53.000 If you actually knew.
01:05:54.000 What success was.
01:05:55.000 And so.
01:05:56.000 That's.
01:05:57.000 What this.
01:05:58.000 That's what this.
01:05:59.000 Sermon is attempting to.
01:06:01.000 To.
01:06:02.000 To.
01:06:03.000 Pause it.
01:06:04.000 It's like.
01:06:05.000 In the story of.
01:06:06.000 Pinocchio.
01:06:07.000 You know.
01:06:08.000 What happens at the beginning of.
01:06:09.000 The story of Pinocchio.
01:06:10.000 Is that.
01:06:11.000 Geppetto.
01:06:12.000 Wishes on a star.
01:06:13.000 We talked about that a little bit.
01:06:14.000 In the story of Pinocchio.
01:06:15.000 What Pinocchio does.
01:06:16.000 Is.
01:06:17.000 Align himself.
01:06:18.000 With.
01:06:19.000 The metaphorical.
01:06:20.000 Manifestation.
01:06:21.000 Of the highest.
01:06:22.000 Good.
01:06:23.000 He can.
01:06:24.000 Conceptualize.
01:06:25.000 And say.
01:06:26.000 He says.
01:06:27.000 He makes a.
01:06:28.000 He makes a.
01:06:29.000 Commitment.
01:06:30.000 Let's say.
01:06:31.000 He aims.
01:06:32.000 At the star.
01:06:33.000 And for him.
01:06:34.000 The star is.
01:06:35.000 The possibility.
01:06:36.000 That he can take.
01:06:37.000 His creation.
01:06:38.000 A puppet.
01:06:39.000 Right.
01:06:40.000 Whose strings.
01:06:41.000 Are being pulled.
01:06:42.000 People.
01:06:43.000 Well.
01:06:44.000 That's a hell.
01:06:45.000 Of an ambition.
01:06:46.000 You know.
01:06:47.000 And we're wise enough.
01:06:48.000 To put that.
01:06:49.000 In the children's movie.
01:06:50.000 But.
01:06:51.000 Too foolish.
01:06:52.000 To understand.
01:06:53.000 What it means.
01:06:54.000 It's such an interesting.
01:06:55.000 Juxtaposition.
01:06:56.000 That.
01:06:57.000 That we can both.
01:06:58.000 Know that.
01:06:59.000 And not know it.
01:07:00.000 At the same time.
01:07:01.000 You can go to the movie.
01:07:02.000 You can watch it.
01:07:03.000 And it makes sense.
01:07:04.000 But that doesn't mean.
01:07:05.000 That you can go home.
01:07:06.000 And think.
01:07:07.000 Well.
01:07:08.000 I know what that meant.
01:07:09.000 Well.
01:07:10.000 People are complicated.
01:07:11.000 Right.
01:07:12.000 The hypothesis is.
01:07:13.000 There's no better pathway.
01:07:15.000 To self-realization.
01:07:16.000 And the ennoblement.
01:07:18.000 Of being.
01:07:19.000 Than to posit.
01:07:20.000 The highest good.
01:07:21.000 That you can conceive of.
01:07:22.000 And commit yourself.
01:07:23.000 To it.
01:07:24.000 And then you might also.
01:07:25.000 Ask yourself.
01:07:26.000 And this is definitely.
01:07:27.000 Worth asking.
01:07:28.000 Do you really.
01:07:29.000 Have anything.
01:07:30.000 Better to do.
01:07:31.000 And if you don't.
01:07:32.000 Well.
01:07:33.000 Why would you do.
01:07:34.000 Anything else.
01:07:35.000 Therefore.
01:07:36.000 Take no thought.
01:07:37.000 For the moral.
01:07:38.000 For the moral.
01:07:39.000 Shall take thought.
01:07:40.000 Sufficient.
01:07:41.000 Unto the day.
01:07:42.000 Is the evil.
01:07:43.000 Thereof.
01:07:44.000 I spent a long time.
01:07:45.000 Trying to figure out.
01:07:46.000 What that meant too.
01:07:47.000 Because it's another.
01:07:48.000 One of those lines.
01:07:49.000 That.
01:07:50.000 Can easily.
01:07:51.000 Be read as.
01:07:53.000 Pro grasshopper.
01:07:54.000 And anti ant.
01:07:55.000 You know.
01:07:56.000 You remember.
01:07:57.000 The old fable.
01:07:58.000 Of the grasshopper.
01:07:59.000 And the ant.
01:08:00.000 Maybe not.
01:08:01.000 I'm not going to tell it.
01:08:02.000 But.
01:08:03.000 The ant works.
01:08:04.000 And the grasshopper fiddles.
01:08:05.000 And.
01:08:06.000 The ant has a pretty good time.
01:08:07.000 In the winter.
01:08:08.000 And the grasshopper dies.
01:08:09.000 And so.
01:08:10.000 This is like.
01:08:11.000 A pro grasshopper line.
01:08:12.000 But it's not.
01:08:13.000 Because it says something else.
01:08:14.000 It says that.
01:08:15.000 If you orient yourself.
01:08:17.000 Properly.
01:08:18.000 And then.
01:08:20.000 Pay attention.
01:08:21.000 To what you do every day.
01:08:22.000 That works.
01:08:23.000 And it.
01:08:24.000 I actually think.
01:08:25.000 That that's in accordance.
01:08:26.000 With what we.
01:08:27.000 Have come to understand.
01:08:28.000 About human perception.
01:08:29.000 Because what happens.
01:08:30.000 Is that.
01:08:31.000 The world.
01:08:32.000 Shifts itself.
01:08:33.000 Around.
01:08:34.000 Your aim.
01:08:35.000 Because you're.
01:08:36.000 You're a creature.
01:08:37.000 That has an aim.
01:08:38.000 You have to have an aim.
01:08:39.000 In order to do something.
01:08:40.000 You're an aiming creature.
01:08:41.000 You look.
01:08:42.000 At a point.
01:08:43.000 And you move towards it.
01:08:44.000 It's built right into you.
01:08:45.000 And so.
01:08:46.000 You have an aim.
01:08:47.000 Let's say.
01:08:48.000 Your aim.
01:08:49.000 Is the highest possible aim.
01:08:50.000 Well then.
01:08:51.000 So.
01:08:52.000 That sets up.
01:08:53.000 The world around you.
01:08:54.000 It.
01:08:55.000 Organizes.
01:08:56.000 All of your perceptions.
01:08:57.000 It organizes.
01:08:58.000 What you see.
01:08:59.000 And you don't see.
01:09:00.000 It organizes.
01:09:01.000 Your emotions.
01:09:02.000 And your motivations.
01:09:03.000 So.
01:09:04.000 You organize yourself.
01:09:05.000 Around that aim.
01:09:06.000 And then.
01:09:07.000 What happens is.
01:09:08.000 The day manifests itself.
01:09:09.000 As a set of.
01:09:10.000 Challenges.
01:09:11.000 And problems.
01:09:12.000 And if you solve them.
01:09:13.000 Properly.
01:09:14.000 Then.
01:09:15.000 You stay on the pathway.
01:09:16.000 Towards that aim.
01:09:17.000 Because you can.
01:09:18.000 You can point.
01:09:19.000 Into the distance.
01:09:20.000 The far distance.
01:09:21.000 And you can live in the day.
01:09:25.000 And it seems to me.
01:09:26.000 That that's.
01:09:27.000 That makes every moment of the day.
01:09:29.000 Supercharged with meaning.
01:09:30.000 That that's how.
01:09:31.000 Because.
01:09:32.000 Everything that you're doing.
01:09:33.000 Every day.
01:09:34.000 Is related to the highest.
01:09:35.000 Possible aim.
01:09:36.000 That you can conceptualize.
01:09:37.000 Well.
01:09:38.000 That's the very definition.
01:09:39.000 Of the meaning.
01:09:40.000 That would sustain you.
01:09:41.000 In your life.
01:09:42.000 Well.
01:09:43.000 And then.
01:09:44.000 The issue is.
01:09:45.000 Well.
01:09:46.000 It's coming.
01:09:47.000 It's like.
01:09:48.000 It's like.
01:09:49.000 When that's happening.
01:09:50.000 In your life.
01:09:51.000 You might want to be doing something.
01:09:52.000 That you regard.
01:09:53.000 As truly worthwhile.
01:09:54.000 Because.
01:09:55.000 That's what will keep you afloat.
01:09:56.000 When.
01:09:57.000 When everything is flooded.
01:09:58.000 And.
01:09:59.000 You don't want to wait.
01:10:00.000 Until.
01:10:01.000 The flood comes.
01:10:02.000 To start doing that.
01:10:03.000 If your ark's half built.
01:10:05.000 And you don't know how to captain it.
01:10:07.000 The probability is.
01:10:08.000 Very high.
01:10:09.000 That.
01:10:10.000 That you'll drown.
01:10:16.000 Take therefore no thought for the moral.
01:10:18.000 But.
01:10:19.000 For the moral shall take thought for the things of itself.
01:10:21.000 Sufficient unto the day.
01:10:23.000 Is the evil thereof.
01:10:26.000 That's not a particularly.
01:10:27.000 Optimistic.
01:10:28.000 Formulation.
01:10:29.000 Judge not.
01:10:33.000 That ye be not judged.
01:10:35.000 For with what judgment you judge.
01:10:36.000 You shall be judged.
01:10:37.000 And with what measure you meet.
01:10:38.000 It shall be measured to you again.
01:10:44.000 It's a sensible piece of.
01:10:46.000 It's a sensible description.
01:10:47.000 I wouldn't call it a piece of advice.
01:10:48.000 Because I don't think that any of this is advice.
01:10:50.000 It's a description of the structure of reality.
01:10:52.000 That's not the same as advice.
01:10:54.000 And it basically says that.
01:10:56.000 You'll be held accountable.
01:10:58.000 By the rules of the game.
01:11:00.000 That you choose to play.
01:11:01.000 And that I also think is.
01:11:04.000 Perfectly in keeping.
01:11:05.000 With what we understand about human psychology.
01:11:07.000 Because.
01:11:08.000 You.
01:11:09.000 You are playing.
01:11:10.000 You have to play a game.
01:11:11.000 That other people will allow you to play.
01:11:13.000 And that will cooperate with you.
01:11:14.000 While you're playing.
01:11:15.000 And it will compete with you.
01:11:16.000 While you're playing it.
01:11:17.000 But you.
01:11:18.000 Have a fair bit of flexibility.
01:11:19.000 In setting up the parameters of the game.
01:11:21.000 But you don't have any choice.
01:11:22.000 About whether or not.
01:11:23.000 You're going to be in a game.
01:11:24.000 You're in a game.
01:11:25.000 And you're going to be held accountable.
01:11:28.000 By the rules of the game.
01:11:29.000 Because.
01:11:30.000 That's how the game works.
01:11:32.000 And so.
01:11:33.000 You might want to pick a game.
01:11:35.000 By whose rules.
01:11:37.000 You would be willing to be held accountable.
01:11:39.000 And why beholdest thou the mote.
01:11:42.000 That is in thy brother's eye.
01:11:44.000 But considerest not the beam.
01:11:45.000 That is in thine own eye.
01:11:47.000 Or.
01:11:48.000 How will you say.
01:11:49.000 To thy brother.
01:11:50.000 Let me pull out the mote.
01:11:51.000 Out of thine eye.
01:11:52.000 And behold.
01:11:53.000 A beam is in thine own eye.
01:11:54.000 Well you might be wondering.
01:11:55.000 What a beam is.
01:11:56.000 And.
01:11:57.000 A mote is a dust speck.
01:11:59.000 And a beam is a.
01:12:01.000 Very large piece of.
01:12:03.000 Lumber.
01:12:04.000 And so the issue is.
01:12:06.000 Not so much the blindness of others.
01:12:09.000 Even though.
01:12:10.000 There's as much blindness.
01:12:12.000 Among others as there is.
01:12:14.000 In.
01:12:15.000 As there is.
01:12:16.000 For you.
01:12:17.000 But the issue here.
01:12:19.000 The advice here.
01:12:20.000 The description here is.
01:12:21.000 You should be concerned about what's interfering with your own vision first.
01:12:25.000 And you should leave other people the hell alone.
01:12:28.000 In relationship to that.
01:12:29.000 And so if your mode of being in the world is.
01:12:32.000 If you would just act better.
01:12:33.000 Things would.
01:12:34.000 Improve.
01:12:35.000 For me.
01:12:36.000 Or if.
01:12:37.000 You identify the evil and the catastrophe.
01:12:39.000 As something that's outside.
01:12:41.000 That someone else needs to fix.
01:12:43.000 Or that someone's response.
01:12:44.000 Someone else is responsible for.
01:12:46.000 Then.
01:12:47.000 Then you're not going to fix that.
01:12:54.000 And you're going to remain blind to the things that you're doing and not doing.
01:13:00.000 That make things not go well.
01:13:02.000 And so it's just better to think.
01:13:04.000 Alright.
01:13:05.000 I'm probably blind.
01:13:06.000 In many many ways.
01:13:07.000 And maybe there are some ways that I could rectify that.
01:13:10.000 Because it's highly probable that you're blind in all sorts of ways.
01:13:13.000 I mean it's in fact it's virtually certain.
01:13:16.000 And so.
01:13:17.000 It's just more useful to think.
01:13:20.000 How is it that I'm wrong in this situation.
01:13:23.000 I'll tell you something that I learned to do.
01:13:25.000 When I was arguing with my wife.
01:13:27.000 Which happened quite frequently.
01:13:29.000 Because.
01:13:30.000 When you actually communicate with people.
01:13:32.000 You find out that there's many things that you don't agree on.
01:13:35.000 And that's because you're actually different creatures.
01:13:37.000 And so.
01:13:38.000 If you're actually going to have a truthful conversation.
01:13:40.000 Then you're going to find out that.
01:13:42.000 You don't see things the same way.
01:13:44.000 And then.
01:13:45.000 You can either pretend.
01:13:46.000 That that's not the case.
01:13:47.000 And gloss over it.
01:13:48.000 And then.
01:13:49.000 End up in a 30 year.
01:13:51.000 Silent war.
01:13:52.000 Or you can.
01:13:54.000 Or you can have the damn fight.
01:13:56.000 When you need to have it.
01:13:57.000 And see if you can straighten it out.
01:14:00.000 So now and then.
01:14:01.000 We'd get in a situation.
01:14:02.000 Where we were at loggerheads.
01:14:03.000 We couldn't move.
01:14:04.000 And.
01:14:05.000 You know.
01:14:06.000 It would spiral.
01:14:07.000 Up into hate speech.
01:14:08.000 Let's say.
01:14:09.000 Because.
01:14:10.000 Everyone laughs.
01:14:11.000 Because they know they manifest plenty of hate speech towards those they love.
01:14:15.000 So.
01:14:16.000 One of the things we learned to do.
01:14:17.000 Was.
01:14:18.000 When we hit.
01:14:19.000 An impasse.
01:14:20.000 Was to separate.
01:14:21.000 And.
01:14:22.000 To go.
01:14:23.000 Our own ways.
01:14:24.000 And to go sit.
01:14:25.000 And think.
01:14:26.000 This.
01:14:27.000 This.
01:14:28.000 Unpleasant situation.
01:14:29.000 We can't figure out how to move forward.
01:14:31.000 I'd always think.
01:14:32.000 Of course.
01:14:33.000 It's her fault.
01:14:34.000 Obviously.
01:14:35.000 It's her fault.
01:14:36.000 At least.
01:14:37.000 95%.
01:14:38.000 But.
01:14:39.000 Maybe.
01:14:40.000 There was something I did.
01:14:42.000 That contributed like.
01:14:43.000 5% to it.
01:14:45.000 And so.
01:14:46.000 I would sit and think.
01:14:47.000 And.
01:14:48.000 Ask myself a question.
01:14:49.000 Which was.
01:14:50.000 Is there anything I did in the last 6 months.
01:14:52.000 That increased the probability.
01:14:54.000 That this.
01:14:55.000 Impasse would manifest itself.
01:14:57.000 And I'll tell you.
01:14:58.000 You have no idea.
01:14:59.000 How fast.
01:15:00.000 Your mind will generate an answer.
01:15:01.000 To a.
01:15:02.000 Question like that.
01:15:03.000 Because there's undoubtedly.
01:15:04.000 Some idiotic thing.
01:15:05.000 That you did.
01:15:06.000 That you know.
01:15:07.000 That you remember.
01:15:08.000 That increased the probability.
01:15:09.000 That you're gonna.
01:15:10.000 Have your hands around the throat.
01:15:11.000 Of the person that you love.
01:15:12.000 And then you can go tell them that.
01:15:15.000 And then you can have a conversation.
01:15:17.000 Especially if they do the same thing.
01:15:19.000 Say.
01:15:20.000 Look.
01:15:21.000 You know.
01:15:22.000 Here's how I'm an idiot.
01:15:23.000 In this situation.
01:15:24.000 Another person says.
01:15:25.000 Well.
01:15:26.000 Yeah.
01:15:27.000 Here's how I'm an idiot.
01:15:28.000 And then you're two idiots.
01:15:29.000 And then maybe you can have a conversation.
01:15:30.000 So.
01:15:31.000 Thou hypocrite.
01:15:32.000 First cast out the beam of thine.
01:15:34.000 Out of thine own eye.
01:15:35.000 And then.
01:15:36.000 Shalt thou see clearly.
01:15:37.000 To cast out the mote.
01:15:38.000 Of thy brother's eye.
01:15:39.000 That's.
01:15:40.000 Hey.
01:15:41.000 Hard to argue with that.
01:15:42.000 Ask and it shall be given you.
01:15:44.000 Seek and ye shall find.
01:15:45.000 Knock and it shall be opened unto you.
01:15:47.000 For everyone that asketh receiveth.
01:15:49.000 And he that seeketh findeth.
01:15:50.000 And to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
01:15:53.000 That sounds pretty optimistic again.
01:15:55.000 But.
01:15:56.000 But.
01:15:57.000 Again.
01:15:58.000 I think it's a description of the structure.
01:16:00.000 Of existential reality.
01:16:01.000 And.
01:16:02.000 By.
01:16:03.000 By which I mean.
01:16:07.000 When I'm in my clinical practice.
01:16:08.000 And I observe.
01:16:09.000 And this is also the case with my students.
01:16:11.000 To say.
01:16:12.000 People's lives aren't what they.
01:16:14.000 Would like them to be.
01:16:15.000 And so then you ask.
01:16:16.000 Why?
01:16:17.000 Well.
01:16:18.000 Forget about tragedy.
01:16:19.000 And catastrophe.
01:16:20.000 Because.
01:16:21.000 That's self-evident.
01:16:22.000 And.
01:16:23.000 We're not going to discuss that.
01:16:24.000 Although.
01:16:25.000 The degree to which you bring about.
01:16:26.000 Your own tragedy.
01:16:27.000 Is.
01:16:28.000 Always indeterminate.
01:16:29.000 But.
01:16:30.000 They never say.
01:16:31.000 That.
01:16:32.000 Every terrible thing.
01:16:33.000 That.
01:16:34.000 Is visited.
01:16:35.000 On a person.
01:16:36.000 Is something.
01:16:37.000 They deserved.
01:16:38.000 I think that.
01:16:39.000 That's a very dangerous.
01:16:40.000 Presupposition.
01:16:41.000 Especially.
01:16:42.000 Because.
01:16:43.000 Everyone gets sick.
01:16:44.000 And everyone dies.
01:16:45.000 But.
01:16:46.000 One of the main reasons.
01:16:48.000 That people don't get what they want.
01:16:49.000 Is because.
01:16:50.000 They don't actually.
01:16:51.000 Figure out what it is.
01:16:52.000 And.
01:16:53.000 The probability.
01:16:54.000 That you're going to get.
01:16:55.000 What would be good for you.
01:16:56.000 Let's say.
01:16:57.000 Which would even be better.
01:16:58.000 Than what you want.
01:16:59.000 Right.
01:17:00.000 Because.
01:17:01.000 You know.
01:17:02.000 You might be wrong.
01:17:03.000 About what you want.
01:17:04.000 Easily.
01:17:05.000 To be good for you.
01:17:06.000 Well.
01:17:07.000 Why don't you?
01:17:08.000 Well.
01:17:09.000 Because.
01:17:10.000 You don't try.
01:17:11.000 You don't think.
01:17:12.000 Okay.
01:17:13.000 Here's what I would like.
01:17:15.000 If I could have it.
01:17:16.000 And.
01:17:17.000 I don't mean.
01:17:18.000 I don't mean.
01:17:19.000 In a way.
01:17:20.000 That you manipulate the world.
01:17:21.000 To force it.
01:17:22.000 To deliver you.
01:17:23.000 Goods.
01:17:24.000 For status.
01:17:25.000 Or something like that.
01:17:26.000 That isn't what I mean.
01:17:27.000 I mean.
01:17:28.000 Something like.
01:17:29.000 Imagine.
01:17:30.000 That you were taking care of yourself.
01:17:31.000 Like you were someone.
01:17:32.000 You actually cared for.
01:17:33.000 And then you thought.
01:17:34.000 If I'm caring for this person.
01:17:35.000 I would like things.
01:17:36.000 To go as well.
01:17:37.000 For them as possible.
01:17:38.000 What would their life.
01:17:39.000 Have to be like.
01:17:40.000 In order for that.
01:17:41.000 To be the case.
01:17:42.000 Well.
01:17:43.000 People don't do that.
01:17:44.000 They don't sit down.
01:17:45.000 And think.
01:17:46.000 Alright.
01:17:47.000 You know.
01:17:48.000 Let's figure it out.
01:17:49.000 You've got a life.
01:17:50.000 It's hard.
01:17:51.000 Obviously.
01:17:52.000 It's like.
01:17:53.000 Three years from now.
01:17:54.000 You can have what you need.
01:17:55.000 You've got to be careful about it.
01:17:56.000 You can't have everything.
01:17:57.000 You can have what.
01:17:58.000 Would be good for you.
01:17:59.000 But you have to figure out.
01:18:00.000 What it is.
01:18:01.000 And then you have to aim at it.
01:18:03.000 Well.
01:18:04.000 My experience with people.
01:18:05.000 Is being is.
01:18:06.000 If they figure out.
01:18:07.000 What it is.
01:18:08.000 That would be good for them.
01:18:09.000 And then they aim at it.
01:18:10.000 Then they get it.
01:18:11.000 And it's strange.
01:18:12.000 Because they don't.
01:18:13.000 Ness.
01:18:14.000 It's a strange thing.
01:18:15.000 It's not quite that simple.
01:18:16.000 Because.
01:18:17.000 You know.
01:18:18.000 About what would be good for you.
01:18:19.000 And then you take.
01:18:20.000 Ten steps towards that.
01:18:21.000 And you find out.
01:18:22.000 That your formulation.
01:18:23.000 Was a bit off.
01:18:24.000 And so you have to.
01:18:25.000 Reformulate your goal.
01:18:26.000 You know.
01:18:27.000 So you're kind of going like this.
01:18:28.000 As you move towards the goal.
01:18:29.000 But a huge part of the reason.
01:18:30.000 That people.
01:18:31.000 Fail.
01:18:32.000 Is because.
01:18:33.000 They don't ever.
01:18:34.000 Set up the criteria.
01:18:35.000 For success.
01:18:36.000 And so.
01:18:37.000 Since success.
01:18:38.000 Is a very narrow line.
01:18:39.000 And very unlikely.
01:18:40.000 The probability.
01:18:41.000 That you're going to stumble.
01:18:42.000 On it.
01:18:43.000 Randomly.
01:18:44.000 Is zero.
01:18:45.000 And so.
01:18:46.000 There's a proposition here.
01:18:47.000 And the proposition is.
01:18:48.000 If you actually.
01:18:49.000 Want something.
01:18:51.000 You can have it.
01:18:53.000 Now.
01:18:54.000 The question then.
01:18:55.000 Would be.
01:18:56.000 Well.
01:18:57.000 What do you mean.
01:18:58.000 By actually want.
01:18:59.000 And the answer is.
01:19:00.000 That you reorient.
01:19:01.000 Your life.
01:19:02.000 In every possible way.
01:19:04.000 To make.
01:19:05.000 That that will occur.
01:19:06.000 As certain.
01:19:07.000 As possible.
01:19:08.000 And that's a sacrificial idea.
01:19:09.000 Right.
01:19:10.000 It's like.
01:19:11.000 You don't get everything.
01:19:12.000 Obviously.
01:19:13.000 You.
01:19:14.000 Obviously.
01:19:15.000 But maybe.
01:19:16.000 You can have.
01:19:17.000 What you need.
01:19:18.000 And maybe.
01:19:19.000 All you have to do.
01:19:20.000 To get it.
01:19:21.000 Is ask.
01:19:22.000 But the asking.
01:19:23.000 Isn't.
01:19:24.000 A whim.
01:19:25.000 Or today's wish.
01:19:26.000 It's like.
01:19:27.000 You have to be.
01:19:28.000 Deadly serious.
01:19:29.000 About it.
01:19:30.000 You have to think.
01:19:31.000 Okay.
01:19:32.000 Like.
01:19:33.000 I'm taking stock of myself.
01:19:34.000 To live properly.
01:19:35.000 In the world.
01:19:36.000 And I was going to.
01:19:37.000 Set myself up.
01:19:38.000 Such.
01:19:39.000 That being.
01:19:40.000 Would justify.
01:19:41.000 Itself.
01:19:42.000 In my estimation.
01:19:43.000 And I don't mean.
01:19:44.000 As a harsh judge.
01:19:45.000 Exactly.
01:19:46.000 What is it.
01:19:47.000 That I would aim at.
01:19:48.000 Well.
01:19:49.000 One of the things.
01:19:50.000 I found.
01:19:51.000 Is that.
01:19:52.000 In test.
01:19:53.000 Of this theory.
01:19:54.000 Let's say.
01:19:55.000 You could try this.
01:19:56.000 This.
01:19:57.000 This is a form.
01:19:58.000 Of prayer.
01:19:59.000 Knocking.
01:20:00.000 Sit on your bed.
01:20:01.000 One day.
01:20:02.000 And ask yourself.
01:20:03.000 Ah.
01:20:04.000 What's.
01:20:05.000 What.
01:20:06.000 Remarkably.
01:20:07.000 Stupid.
01:20:08.000 Things.
01:20:09.000 Am I doing.
01:20:10.000 On a regular basis.
01:20:11.000 To absolutely.
01:20:12.000 Screw up.
01:20:13.000 My life.
01:20:14.000 And if you actually.
01:20:15.000 Ask that question.
01:20:16.000 That's actually.
01:20:17.000 What asking the question.
01:20:18.000 Means.
01:20:19.000 It doesn't mean.
01:20:20.000 Just.
01:20:21.000 Mouthing the words.
01:20:22.000 It means.
01:20:23.000 You have to decide.
01:20:24.000 That you want to know.
01:20:25.000 You'll figure.
01:20:26.000 That's out.
01:20:27.000 So fast.
01:20:28.000 It'll make your hair curl.
01:20:29.000 You'll.
01:20:30.000 You.
01:20:31.000 It's as if.
01:20:32.000 Jung thought about this.
01:20:33.000 He thought.
01:20:34.000 You know.
01:20:35.000 He thought.
01:20:36.000 That people.
01:20:37.000 Had two poles.
01:20:38.000 Of consciousness.
01:20:39.000 And one was.
01:20:40.000 The individual.
01:20:41.000 Consciousness.
01:20:42.000 That.
01:20:43.000 We each identify.
01:20:44.000 With.
01:20:45.000 The universal part.
01:20:46.000 Of your consciousness.
01:20:47.000 It's your conscience.
01:20:48.000 That's another way.
01:20:49.000 Of thinking about it.
01:20:50.000 Whatever your conscience is.
01:20:52.000 But it's something.
01:20:53.000 That you can consult.
01:20:54.000 It's like.
01:20:55.000 The Socratic.
01:20:56.000 Damon.
01:20:57.000 Socrates said.
01:20:58.000 That the thing.
01:20:59.000 That made him.
01:21:00.000 Different.
01:21:01.000 Than everyone else.
01:21:02.000 In Greece.
01:21:03.000 Was that he.
01:21:04.000 Consulted.
01:21:05.000 His daemon.
01:21:06.000 His genius.
01:21:07.000 He asked himself.
01:21:08.000 How it was.
01:21:09.000 That he should.
01:21:10.000 Conduct himself.
01:21:11.000 In the world.
01:21:12.000 And then he did that.
01:21:13.000 Whatever it was.
01:21:14.000 Selfishly.
01:21:15.000 He asked.
01:21:16.000 I'm going to manifest myself.
01:21:17.000 In the best possible manner.
01:21:18.000 In the world.
01:21:19.000 I would like to do that.
01:21:20.000 What would that be?
01:21:22.000 Well.
01:21:23.000 You're perfectly capable.
01:21:24.000 Of thinking.
01:21:25.000 God only knows how.
01:21:26.000 You're perfectly capable.
01:21:27.000 Of.
01:21:28.000 Of.
01:21:29.000 Of.
01:21:30.000 Immense feats.
01:21:31.000 Of imagination.
01:21:32.000 And.
01:21:33.000 And dream.
01:21:34.000 And fantasies.
01:21:35.000 God only knows.
01:21:36.000 How you do all of that.
01:21:37.000 What would happen.
01:21:38.000 If you consulted yourself.
01:21:39.000 About the best possible outcome.
01:21:40.000 For you.
01:21:41.000 Well.
01:21:42.000 That's what this proposition is.
01:21:49.000 Of.
01:21:50.000 Or what man is there of you.
01:21:51.000 Whom.
01:21:52.000 If his son asks for bread.
01:21:53.000 Will give him a stone.
01:21:54.000 Or.
01:21:55.000 If he asks for a fish.
01:21:56.000 Will give him a serpent.
01:21:57.000 If ye.
01:21:58.000 Then being evil.
01:21:59.000 Know how to give good gifts.
01:22:00.000 Unto your children.
01:22:01.000 Where shall your father.
01:22:02.000 Which is in heaven.
01:22:03.000 Give good things.
01:22:04.000 To them.
01:22:05.000 That ask him.
01:22:06.000 Well.
01:22:07.000 This is a question.
01:22:08.000 About.
01:22:09.000 The fundamental nature.
01:22:10.000 Of being.
01:22:11.000 I suppose.
01:22:12.000 And.
01:22:13.000 One of the.
01:22:14.000 Hypothesis.
01:22:15.000 In the new testament.
01:22:16.000 Which is.
01:22:17.000 Different.
01:22:18.000 It's a different hypothesis.
01:22:19.000 In some sense.
01:22:20.000 Than the one that structures.
01:22:21.000 The old testament.
01:22:22.000 Faith makes being good.
01:22:26.000 It's a very interesting proposition.
01:22:30.000 And so the notion would be.
01:22:31.000 And it's an action oriented issue.
01:22:33.000 As well.
01:22:34.000 You act out the proposition.
01:22:36.000 That if you act properly.
01:22:38.000 In the world.
01:22:39.000 That being will reveal itself.
01:22:40.000 To you as benevolent.
01:22:41.000 But you will not know.
01:22:43.000 You'll never know.
01:22:44.000 Unless you do it.
01:22:45.000 So this is a call to that.
01:22:47.000 Act out the proposition.
01:22:49.000 That if you act properly.
01:22:51.000 That being itself.
01:22:52.000 Is benevolent.
01:23:00.000 There's no reason.
01:23:01.000 To assume the contrary.
01:23:02.000 I mean.
01:23:03.000 To assume the contrary.
01:23:04.000 Would be to be as.
01:23:05.000 Cynical and bitter.
01:23:06.000 As possible.
01:23:07.000 And it's not like.
01:23:08.000 We don't have reason for that.
01:23:09.000 It's not like.
01:23:10.000 I don't understand.
01:23:11.000 Why that happens to people.
01:23:14.000 Therefore.
01:23:15.000 All things.
01:23:16.000 Whatsoever.
01:23:17.000 Ye.
01:23:18.000 Would that men should do to you.
01:23:19.000 Do you.
01:23:20.000 Even so.
01:23:21.000 To them.
01:23:22.000 For this is the law.
01:23:23.000 And the prophets.
01:23:24.000 And that's a reciprocity issue.
01:23:26.000 Right.
01:23:27.000 It's like.
01:23:28.000 Well.
01:23:29.000 Imagine what would be.
01:23:30.000 This is another thing.
01:23:31.000 I learned from Jung.
01:23:32.000 Because Jung reversed this.
01:23:33.000 Because.
01:23:34.000 This is often read.
01:23:35.000 It's the golden rule.
01:23:36.000 It's often read.
01:23:37.000 As be nice to.
01:23:38.000 Be nice to other people.
01:23:39.000 It's like.
01:23:40.000 That is not what this rule means.
01:23:41.000 A little bit.
01:23:42.000 It means something like.
01:23:45.000 And we'll reverse it.
01:23:46.000 So that we'll concentrate on.
01:23:47.000 You.
01:23:48.000 Rather than the other person.
01:23:49.000 To begin with.
01:23:50.000 It means something like.
01:23:53.000 Conceptualize how things could be.
01:23:55.000 Great.
01:23:57.000 If they were great for you.
01:23:58.000 If you were taking care of yourself.
01:24:00.000 And then work.
01:24:01.000 To make that the case.
01:24:02.000 For everyone else.
01:24:04.000 You know.
01:24:05.000 You see that in Buddhism.
01:24:06.000 Because Buddha reached Nirvana.
01:24:07.000 Right.
01:24:08.000 That's the theory.
01:24:09.000 And then.
01:24:10.000 He.
01:24:11.000 Was tempted.
01:24:12.000 With the offer.
01:24:13.000 To stay there.
01:24:14.000 And he rejected that offer.
01:24:15.000 And came back.
01:24:16.000 To.
01:24:17.000 The profane world.
01:24:18.000 Because he felt that.
01:24:19.000 The attainment of Nirvana.
01:24:21.000 Was.
01:24:22.000 Insufficient.
01:24:23.000 Unless everyone attained it.
01:24:24.000 Simultaneously.
01:24:25.000 And so.
01:24:26.000 It's something like that.
01:24:27.000 But.
01:24:28.000 It's.
01:24:29.000 Treat yourself properly.
01:24:31.000 That's a hard thing to do.
01:24:32.000 Because you're.
01:24:33.000 A fallen.
01:24:34.000 Shameful.
01:24:35.000 Cowardly.
01:24:37.000 Deceitful.
01:24:38.000 Malevolent.
01:24:39.000 Mortal creature.
01:24:42.000 And so.
01:24:43.000 It's not easy.
01:24:44.000 And you know it.
01:24:45.000 And it's not easy.
01:24:46.000 To treat something like that.
01:24:47.000 Properly.
01:24:48.000 And.
01:24:49.000 And.
01:24:50.000 And it isn't.
01:24:51.000 Obvious.
01:24:52.000 That people treat themselves better.
01:24:53.000 Than they treat other people.
01:24:54.000 I don't think that's obvious at all.
01:24:55.000 But maybe you could start with yourself.
01:24:56.000 And think.
01:24:57.000 Okay.
01:24:58.000 I'm going to take care of myself.
01:24:59.000 As if I have value.
01:25:00.000 What would that look like.
01:25:02.000 And then I'm going to work.
01:25:03.000 To extend that.
01:25:04.000 Courtesy to everyone else.
01:25:05.000 And that's.
01:25:06.000 Well.
01:25:07.000 The hypothesis here.
01:25:08.000 Is that.
01:25:09.000 If you take.
01:25:10.000 All of the moral wisdom.
01:25:12.000 That mankind has.
01:25:13.000 Generated.
01:25:14.000 Over it's.
01:25:15.000 Millennia of struggle.
01:25:17.000 Evolved.
01:25:18.000 And then.
01:25:19.000 Manifested.
01:25:20.000 Metaphor.
01:25:21.000 And story.
01:25:22.000 And then.
01:25:23.000 Codified into.
01:25:24.000 Law.
01:25:25.000 Articulated law.
01:25:26.000 And you pick.
01:25:27.000 One principle.
01:25:28.000 That dominated.
01:25:29.000 All of that.
01:25:30.000 This would be the principle.
01:25:36.000 And it's interesting too.
01:25:37.000 Because it's the law.
01:25:38.000 And the prophets.
01:25:39.000 And the law.
01:25:40.000 Is the rules.
01:25:41.000 But the prophets.
01:25:42.000 Are the process.
01:25:43.000 By which the rules.
01:25:44.000 Are being updated.
01:25:45.000 Right.
01:25:46.000 And so the prophets.
01:25:47.000 Are superordinate.
01:25:48.000 And the proposition.
01:25:49.000 That's set forth.
01:25:50.000 In this particular.
01:25:51.000 Statement.
01:25:52.000 Is that.
01:25:53.000 This maxim.
01:25:54.000 Which is.
01:25:55.000 Optimize your own.
01:25:56.000 Mode of being.
01:25:57.000 And then work.
01:25:58.000 To do the same.
01:25:59.000 For everyone around you.
01:26:00.000 Is not only.
01:26:01.000 The thing.
01:26:02.000 That's at the core.
01:26:03.000 Of the law.
01:26:04.000 But it's at the core.
01:26:05.000 Of the process.
01:26:06.000 That generates.
01:26:07.000 And updates.
01:26:08.000 The law.
01:26:09.000 It's a hell of a thing.
01:26:10.000 For someone.
01:26:11.000 To say.
01:26:12.000 Enter ye.
01:26:13.000 In at the narrow.
01:26:14.000 Gate.
01:26:15.000 Because that's what.
01:26:16.000 Straight means.
01:26:17.000 Great gate.
01:26:18.000 For wide is the gate.
01:26:19.000 And broad is the way.
01:26:20.000 That leadeth to destruction.
01:26:21.000 Well who in the world.
01:26:22.000 Could possibly argue.
01:26:23.000 With that.
01:26:24.000 Everyone in the right.
01:26:25.000 Mind knows.
01:26:26.000 That there's a million ways.
01:26:27.000 Of doing things wrong.
01:26:28.000 And one way.
01:26:29.000 If you're lucky.
01:26:30.000 To do things right.
01:26:31.000 And so the notion.
01:26:32.000 That it's a.
01:26:33.000 Very very narrow.
01:26:34.000 Pathway.
01:26:35.000 That you tread upon.
01:26:36.000 If you're doing things.
01:26:37.000 Right.
01:26:38.000 That's.
01:26:39.000 Wisdom.
01:26:40.000 That's the line.
01:26:41.000 Between chaos and order.
01:26:42.000 That you're supposed to be on.
01:26:43.000 Constantly.
01:26:44.000 Right.
01:26:45.000 It's a very very thin line.
01:26:46.000 In one direction.
01:26:47.000 Then it's too much chaos.
01:26:48.000 And if you're a little too far.
01:26:49.000 In the other direction.
01:26:50.000 Then it's too much order.
01:26:51.000 And both of those aren't good.
01:26:52.000 It has to.
01:26:53.000 The balance has to be exactly right.
01:26:54.000 And you can feel that.
01:26:55.000 And I truly believe.
01:26:56.000 You can feel that.
01:26:57.000 And I think it's your deepest instinct.
01:26:59.000 It's your deepest instinct.
01:27:00.000 And I mean that.
01:27:01.000 I mean that biologically.
01:27:03.000 I don't mean that metaphorically.
01:27:04.000 I think that your psyche.
01:27:06.000 Is arranged.
01:27:07.000 To exist in a cosmos.
01:27:09.000 That's composed of.
01:27:10.000 Chaos and order.
01:27:11.000 I think that's why you have.
01:27:12.000 The hemispheric structure that you have.
01:27:14.000 This is.
01:27:15.000 This is deeper than metaphor.
01:27:16.000 And then.
01:27:17.000 When you feel.
01:27:18.000 As if you're meaningfully engaged.
01:27:20.000 In the world.
01:27:21.000 When the terror of your mortality.
01:27:23.000 Strips away.
01:27:24.000 And you're engaged.
01:27:26.000 And it's timeless.
01:27:27.000 That's.
01:27:28.000 The deepest instinct you have.
01:27:30.000 Telling you.
01:27:31.000 That you're in the right place.
01:27:32.000 At the right time.
01:27:33.000 And then what you do is.
01:27:35.000 Practice being there.
01:27:36.000 Practice being there.
01:27:37.000 And that's that.
01:27:38.000 That narrow spot.
01:27:39.000 That's so difficult to find.
01:27:40.000 You wander around it.
01:27:41.000 Maybe if you're lucky.
01:27:42.000 You can watch.
01:27:43.000 You can watch.
01:27:44.000 This is an experiment.
01:27:45.000 Watch yourself for two weeks.
01:27:47.000 Like you don't know who you are.
01:27:48.000 Because you don't.
01:27:49.000 So watch yourself for two weeks.
01:27:50.000 And notice.
01:27:51.000 There's going to be times.
01:27:52.000 When things are proper.
01:27:53.000 They're arrayed properly for you.
01:27:55.000 It's not easy to notice.
01:27:57.000 Because when they're arrayed like that.
01:27:58.000 You're so engaged.
01:27:59.000 You don't exactly notice.
01:28:00.000 You know.
01:28:01.000 But you'll see.
01:28:02.000 Oh.
01:28:03.000 I'm in the right place.
01:28:04.000 It's like.
01:28:05.000 Okay.
01:28:06.000 How'd I get here?
01:28:07.000 What am I doing right?
01:28:08.000 You know.
01:28:09.000 How is it that this could happen more often?
01:28:11.000 I'd like this to happen more often.
01:28:12.000 How would I have to conduct myself.
01:28:13.000 In order for that to happen more often.
01:28:15.000 And then you practice that.
01:28:16.000 And then maybe instead of.
01:28:17.000 10 minutes a month.
01:28:18.000 Or.
01:28:19.000 10 minutes a week.
01:28:20.000 It's like.
01:28:21.000 15 minutes a day.
01:28:22.000 And then it's half an hour a day.
01:28:23.000 And then it's an hour a day.
01:28:24.000 And then it's four hours a day.
01:28:25.000 And.
01:28:26.000 Maybe if you're.
01:28:27.000 If you're extraordinarily careful.
01:28:28.000 Then you get to a point where.
01:28:29.000 You're like that.
01:28:31.000 Good proportion of the time.
01:28:35.000 Because straight is the gate.
01:28:36.000 And narrow is the way.
01:28:37.000 Which leadeth unto life.
01:28:38.000 And few there be that find it.
01:28:40.000 Beware of false prophets.
01:28:44.000 Which come to you in sheep's clothing.
01:28:46.000 But inwardly they are ravening wolves.
01:28:48.000 That's particularly good advice.
01:28:49.000 For today's political situation.
01:28:51.000 I can tell you.
01:28:54.000 Ye shall know them by their fruits.
01:28:56.000 Do men gather grapes of thorns.
01:28:58.000 Or figs of thistles.
01:29:00.000 Even so.
01:29:01.000 Every good tree bringeth forth good fruit.
01:29:03.000 But a corrupt tree.
01:29:04.000 Bringeth forth evil fruit.
01:29:06.000 Well that's what I learned.
01:29:08.000 From studying.
01:29:09.000 The history of totalitarianism.
01:29:11.000 In the 20th century.
01:29:12.000 Is that a corrupt tree.
01:29:14.000 Brings forth evil fruit.
01:29:15.000 And that's for sure.
01:29:17.000 And it's so funny.
01:29:20.000 You know.
01:29:21.000 People.
01:29:22.000 Who.
01:29:23.000 Think.
01:29:24.000 When they're thinking about.
01:29:25.000 The relationship with divinity.
01:29:26.000 Or the relationship with God.
01:29:28.000 They think.
01:29:29.000 It's a primitive and childish way of thinking.
01:29:31.000 What if a miracle just manifests.
01:29:33.000 Why can't a miracle just manifest itself.
01:29:35.000 And I would be convinced.
01:29:36.000 And the funny thing is.
01:29:37.000 Is first of all.
01:29:38.000 Actually you wouldn't be.
01:29:39.000 If a miracle actually happened.
01:29:40.000 You would actually forget about it.
01:29:42.000 In about six months.
01:29:43.000 That's.
01:29:44.000 I mean.
01:29:45.000 You'd think that's not true.
01:29:46.000 But it's true.
01:29:47.000 You would actually forget about it.
01:29:48.000 Because that's what people are like.
01:29:49.000 But.
01:29:50.000 There are negative miracles.
01:29:51.000 That are happening all the time.
01:29:52.000 Which actually lend some credence to my supposition.
01:29:54.000 And we don't pay any attention to that.
01:29:56.000 If we can't learn.
01:29:57.000 From what happened in the 20th century.
01:29:59.000 Then we are absolutely incapable of learning.
01:30:01.000 Because.
01:30:02.000 What happened in the 20th century.
01:30:04.000 Was as bitter a set of lessons.
01:30:06.000 As you could possibly imagine.
01:30:08.000 And it's associated precisely with this.
01:30:11.000 A corrupt tree.
01:30:12.000 Bringeth forth evil fruit.
01:30:13.000 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
01:30:15.000 Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
01:30:18.000 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit.
01:30:25.000 Is hewn down and cast into the fire.
01:30:29.000 Well that's a flood motif right there.
01:30:31.000 It's like.
01:30:32.000 We're constantly.
01:30:33.000 The archetype of the tree.
01:30:35.000 That's the archetype of being.
01:30:37.000 It's the archetype of the self often.
01:30:39.000 What's the warning here.
01:30:44.000 Is that.
01:30:45.000 If you're mostly dead wood.
01:30:46.000 You're going to get.
01:30:48.000 You're going to burn up.
01:30:49.000 And you can think about that metaphysically.
01:30:51.000 You can.
01:30:52.000 You can.
01:30:53.000 Project that into eternity.
01:30:54.000 And you can think about that as a form of hell.
01:30:56.000 And.
01:30:57.000 The funny thing is.
01:30:58.000 Is that.
01:30:59.000 When that's happening to you in real time.
01:31:01.000 It is like an eternity in hell.
01:31:03.000 It's a perfectly reasonable way of thinking about it.
01:31:05.000 But you can strip the metaphysical elements off.
01:31:07.000 And you can say.
01:31:08.000 Well.
01:31:09.000 If you're mostly.
01:31:10.000 Dead wood.
01:31:11.000 Then.
01:31:12.000 A spark will light you on fire.
01:31:14.000 And that's also.
01:31:15.000 Very much worth thinking about.
01:31:17.000 Wherefore by their fruits.
01:31:18.000 Shall you know them.
01:31:20.000 Not everyone that saith unto me.
01:31:22.000 Lord.
01:31:23.000 Shall enter the kingdom of heaven.
01:31:25.000 But he that doeth the will of my father.
01:31:26.000 Which is in heaven.
01:31:28.000 That's an interesting.
01:31:30.000 Line.
01:31:31.000 I think.
01:31:32.000 I mean.
01:31:33.000 One of the.
01:31:34.000 Proper critiques of traditional Christianity.
01:31:36.000 Maybe.
01:31:37.000 This is the sort of critique that.
01:31:38.000 Nietzsche put forth.
01:31:39.000 Was that.
01:31:41.000 Christianity had degenerated in its moral mission.
01:31:44.000 Jung was a little bit more sympathetic.
01:31:46.000 And I'll tell you why in a minute.
01:31:47.000 But Nietzsche's idea was that.
01:31:49.000 Christianity had.
01:31:50.000 Lost its way.
01:31:52.000 When it.
01:31:53.000 Generated the presupposition.
01:31:54.000 That.
01:31:55.000 Humanity.
01:31:56.000 Was saved in some.
01:31:58.000 Final sense.
01:31:59.000 By the.
01:32:00.000 Sacrifice of Christ.
01:32:01.000 It meant that.
01:32:02.000 The work was already done.
01:32:03.000 And that.
01:32:04.000 And I'm.
01:32:05.000 I'm being.
01:32:06.000 I'm.
01:32:07.000 I'm.
01:32:08.000 I'm being harsh.
01:32:09.000 In my judgment.
01:32:10.000 For the purpose of.
01:32:11.000 Rhetorical simplification.
01:32:12.000 But.
01:32:13.000 The idea was that.
01:32:14.000 If you just professed faith.
01:32:16.000 That.
01:32:17.000 That had already occurred.
01:32:18.000 Then you were.
01:32:19.000 Granted eternal salvation.
01:32:21.000 It's like.
01:32:22.000 Well.
01:32:23.000 It's not so straightforward.
01:32:24.000 And I think that.
01:32:25.000 That's what this line actually represents.
01:32:27.000 It says.
01:32:28.000 How you enter into the kingdom of heaven.
01:32:32.000 And.
01:32:33.000 And again.
01:32:34.000 You can think about that.
01:32:35.000 Under the.
01:32:36.000 Aspect of eternity.
01:32:37.000 Or you can think about it as a psychological statement.
01:32:39.000 And the answer is quite straightforward.
01:32:40.000 Is that.
01:32:41.000 You.
01:32:42.000 Do what Noah did.
01:32:46.000 To make him immune from the flood.
01:32:48.000 And that's to walk with God.
01:32:50.000 And that's what this sermon is about.
01:32:52.000 It's laying out the practical elements of that.
01:32:55.000 And the practical elements are.
01:32:58.000 Aim at the highest possible good.
01:33:01.000 And.
01:33:02.000 Play that out in the world.
01:33:03.000 And then.
01:33:04.000 You may have the opportunity.
01:33:05.000 To inhabit the highest possible good.
01:33:07.000 That you're.
01:33:08.000 Positing into existence.
01:33:10.000 Perhaps not.
01:33:11.000 But you can't think of any more practical way.
01:33:13.000 Of going about that.
01:33:14.000 I mean.
01:33:15.000 If you build a house.
01:33:16.000 Then maybe you can live in it.
01:33:17.000 If you don't have any more practical way.
01:33:18.000 Of going about that.
01:33:19.000 I mean.
01:33:20.000 If you build a house.
01:33:21.000 Then maybe you can live in it.
01:33:22.000 If you don't build the house.
01:33:23.000 You're not going to be able to live in it.
01:33:24.000 If you build up.
01:33:25.000 Good house.
01:33:26.000 Then you'll be able to live in a good house.
01:33:28.000 And.
01:33:29.000 If you build a perfect house.
01:33:30.000 Then maybe you can live in a perfect house.
01:33:31.000 But if you just.
01:33:32.000 Say that the house.
01:33:33.000 Has already been built.
01:33:34.000 For you.
01:33:35.000 And that you can just say.
01:33:36.000 That the house is being built.
01:33:38.000 For you.
01:33:39.000 Well then.
01:33:40.000 The probability.
01:33:41.000 That you're going to be able to live.
01:33:42.000 Where you need to live.
01:33:43.000 Is.
01:33:44.000 There's no probability.
01:33:45.000 That you're going to build to live.
01:33:46.000 Where you need to live.
01:33:47.000 Many will say to me.
01:33:48.000 In that day.
01:33:49.000 Lord have we not prophesied in thy name
01:33:51.020 And in thy name have cast out devils
01:33:52.760 And in thy name done many wonderful works
01:33:54.640 And then I will profess unto them
01:33:56.960 I never knew you
01:33:58.260 Depart from me
01:33:59.500 You that work iniquity
01:34:01.500 See that's judgment day
01:34:05.200 You know
01:34:05.560 That's an archetypal idea
01:34:09.060 And partly it's archetypal
01:34:10.760 Because every day is judgment day
01:34:12.600 And the part of you that
01:34:14.420 The part of you that's equivalent to the logo
01:34:18.580 Say the part of you that's your own ideal
01:34:20.840 Sits in eternal judgment
01:34:23.260 On your
01:34:24.020 Iniquity
01:34:25.480 And that's the source of guilt
01:34:28.800 And shame
01:34:29.340 And withdrawal
01:34:31.680 And then resentment
01:34:33.660 And then murderousness
01:34:36.260 And then genocide
01:34:37.160 It's because you
01:34:39.380 Can intuit the ideal
01:34:42.960 And the problem with intuiting the ideal
01:34:44.720 Is that an ideal is always a judge
01:34:46.860 There's no difference between an ideal and a judge
01:34:50.120 And so you're eternally judged
01:34:51.540 By your own ideal
01:34:52.380 If you have no ideal
01:34:53.280 Well then
01:34:53.720 You've got no direction
01:34:54.700 And no meaning in your life
01:34:55.820 And then of course
01:34:56.860 The more extreme the ideal
01:34:58.700 The harsher the judge
01:35:00.280 That's actually why Jung
01:35:01.800 Jung was very curious
01:35:03.540 About why the book of Revelation
01:35:04.740 Was tacked on to the Bible
01:35:06.060 Because the book of Revelation
01:35:07.480 That's a very weird book
01:35:09.160 And you know
01:35:11.240 In the gospels
01:35:12.460 Christ is
01:35:13.100 I would say
01:35:13.780 Perhaps primarily merciful
01:35:15.380 There's a
01:35:16.200 Maybe a war
01:35:17.740 In his character
01:35:18.700 Between truth and mercy
01:35:19.900 But it's one of the two
01:35:21.000 Perhaps mercy
01:35:21.940 And Jung's observation was
01:35:23.720 The gospel Christ
01:35:25.120 Was too merciful
01:35:26.020 And that's why the book of Revelation
01:35:27.760 Was tacked on
01:35:28.580 Tacked on to the New Testament
01:35:29.980 Because
01:35:30.740 In the book of Revelation
01:35:32.160 Christ
01:35:33.000 Who's the ideal
01:35:33.960 Who's above the pyramid
01:35:35.240 Right
01:35:35.580 The transcendent ideal
01:35:36.720 Is nothing but a judge
01:35:38.500 And everyone fails
01:35:40.180 And of course
01:35:41.360 The ultimate ideal
01:35:42.380 Is the ultimate judge
01:35:43.600 And so that's the
01:35:44.760 Archetypal reality there
01:35:45.820 And you can say
01:35:46.300 Well I don't want to be judged
01:35:47.360 And so I'll dispense
01:35:48.380 With the ideal
01:35:49.040 But then you're Cain
01:35:50.160 Because Cain is exactly
01:35:51.560 The person who dispenses
01:35:52.640 With the ideal
01:35:53.400 And so there's no
01:35:55.020 Escaping from it
01:35:55.960 There's no escaping
01:35:57.120 From eternal judgment
01:35:58.380 That's the archetypal story
01:36:00.580 You know
01:36:03.100 People put a lot of work
01:36:04.180 Into these representations
01:36:05.200 You know
01:36:05.840 And there's thousands of them
01:36:07.620 They weren't messing around
01:36:09.060 These are serious pieces of work
01:36:11.720 You know
01:36:12.680 We don't understand them
01:36:13.740 But that doesn't mean
01:36:14.460 That the people
01:36:15.000 Who created them
01:36:16.180 Didn't know what they were doing
01:36:17.360 These were geniuses
01:36:18.840 Who created these pieces of work
01:36:20.320 It's not like they understood
01:36:21.680 In an articulated manner
01:36:23.040 Exactly what they were
01:36:23.920 Trying to represent
01:36:24.780 But what they were representing
01:36:26.740 Were the metaphors
01:36:28.160 At the core of our culture
01:36:29.520 To the degree
01:36:30.200 That our culture
01:36:30.880 Is functional and good
01:36:32.260 These are the metaphors
01:36:34.000 Upon which it's founded
01:36:35.680 And they're not
01:36:37.980 For the faint of heart
01:36:39.040 You know
01:36:39.420 You say religion
01:36:40.740 Is the opiate of the masses
01:36:42.040 It's like
01:36:42.520 Yeah
01:36:42.700 Then how do you explain this
01:36:43.960 Exactly
01:36:44.920 You know
01:36:45.680 Because if it was opiates
01:36:46.720 You're after
01:36:47.240 You might just get rid
01:36:48.420 Of that panel
01:36:49.140 Especially when
01:36:54.820 The other thing
01:36:55.460 That's so interesting
01:36:56.220 About the proposition
01:36:57.000 If you look at
01:36:57.680 Revelations
01:36:58.440 And you look at
01:36:59.860 The judgment
01:37:00.440 Almost everyone
01:37:03.200 Ends up
01:37:03.900 On the right side
01:37:04.780 Of this panel
01:37:05.500 So if you were just
01:37:07.080 Conjuring up
01:37:07.840 Some sort of
01:37:08.480 Pathetic wish fulfillment
01:37:09.900 Why in the world
01:37:11.560 Would you
01:37:11.980 Tilt the scales
01:37:13.620 In that manner
01:37:14.540 You think that's supposed
01:37:16.580 To make people feel good
01:37:17.780 I don't think so
01:37:18.840 There's almost nothing
01:37:20.020 About this picture
01:37:21.100 That should make people
01:37:22.920 Feel good
01:37:23.620 It should
01:37:24.700 If you understand it properly
01:37:25.980 It should terrify you
01:37:27.140 To the depths of your soul
01:37:28.460 That's what the picture is for
01:37:30.180 Therefore
01:37:32.500 Whoever heareth
01:37:33.340 These sayings of mine
01:37:34.340 And doeth them
01:37:34.960 I will liken him
01:37:35.760 Unto a wise man
01:37:36.920 Which built his house
01:37:37.680 Upon a rock
01:37:38.360 And the rain descended
01:37:39.660 And the winds
01:37:40.340 Blew
01:37:41.260 And the floods came
01:37:42.180 And beat upon the house
01:37:43.200 And it fell not
01:37:44.100 For it was founded
01:37:45.180 Upon a rock
01:37:46.480 And everyone
01:37:49.580 That heareth these sayings
01:37:50.720 Of mine
01:37:51.040 And doeth them not
01:37:51.740 Shall be likened
01:37:52.400 Unto a foolish man
01:37:53.440 Which built his house
01:37:54.480 Upon the sand
01:37:55.220 And the rain descended
01:37:56.140 And the floods came
01:37:56.960 And the winds blew
01:37:58.120 And beat upon that house
01:37:59.840 And it
01:38:00.200 Oh
01:38:02.020 I made a mistake
01:38:03.140 And it fell
01:38:04.000 For it was founded
01:38:04.820 Upon sand
01:38:05.780 And it came to pass
01:38:09.940 This is a very interesting line
01:38:11.480 I really
01:38:12.000 I really
01:38:12.800 You know
01:38:13.680 Now and then
01:38:14.120 You run across
01:38:14.780 Lines
01:38:15.760 In
01:38:16.640 This particularly happens
01:38:18.800 In biblical settings
01:38:19.780 You run across lines
01:38:20.980 That you cannot believe
01:38:22.580 Actually exist
01:38:23.840 You cannot imagine
01:38:24.780 How someone
01:38:25.440 Could have imagined up
01:38:27.000 And conjured up the line
01:38:28.100 And these two lines
01:38:29.160 Are like that
01:38:29.740 As far as I'm concerned
01:38:30.500 And it came to pass
01:38:31.580 When Jesus had ended
01:38:32.400 These sayings
01:38:33.000 That people were astonished
01:38:34.420 At his doctrine
01:38:35.120 For he taught them
01:38:36.240 As one having authority
01:38:37.580 And not as the scribes
01:38:39.000 And that's something
01:38:40.440 So interesting
01:38:41.220 You know
01:38:41.500 Because that was another thing
01:38:42.520 That really
01:38:42.920 I didn't really appreciate
01:38:44.240 About the churches
01:38:44.960 That I attended to
01:38:45.860 And that would be that
01:38:46.860 The lessons were taught
01:38:48.720 By scribes
01:38:49.780 And the words were mouthed
01:38:51.620 But there was no
01:38:52.680 Power in them
01:38:53.960 There was no meaning in them
01:38:55.380 It was
01:38:55.680 It was as if
01:38:56.660 Well it was like
01:38:58.380 When I was 20 years old
01:38:59.660 And I was saying
01:39:00.200 All these things
01:39:00.680 I didn't mean
01:39:01.320 You know
01:39:01.880 They were words
01:39:02.460 That sounded good
01:39:03.200 They were like
01:39:03.640 Like gilded cloth
01:39:05.820 I suppose
01:39:06.280 That you can
01:39:06.800 That you can wrap
01:39:07.680 Around yourself
01:39:08.260 But there's no substance
01:39:09.340 To them
01:39:09.920 And there's a big difference
01:39:11.420 Between listening to something
01:39:13.220 That has substance
01:39:14.300 And listening to something
01:39:15.980 That is spoken
01:39:17.060 Because it sounds
01:39:18.180 Like it should sound good
01:39:19.840 And this line says
01:39:21.820 That whoever spoke
01:39:22.740 The lines that we just described
01:39:24.440 Was someone who
01:39:26.380 Sounded like he knew
01:39:28.320 What he was talking about
01:39:29.380 And not someone
01:39:30.580 Who was just
01:39:31.280 Repeating something
01:39:32.640 For the sake of sounding good
01:39:34.080 And it certainly seems to me
01:39:36.100 That the lines
01:39:36.980 That we just reviewed
01:39:38.220 Have the
01:39:39.840 Awesome
01:39:41.160 Impact
01:39:43.180 Of authority
01:39:44.600 Back to Noah
01:39:48.380 But Noah found grace
01:39:50.240 In the eyes of the Lord
01:39:51.140 These are the generations
01:39:52.700 Of Noah
01:39:53.220 Noah was a just man
01:39:54.740 And perfect
01:39:55.300 In his generations
01:39:56.220 And Noah walked with God
01:39:57.480 And Noah begat three sons
01:39:59.220 Shem, Ham
01:39:59.960 And Japheth
01:40:01.080 The earth was also
01:40:02.800 Corrupt before God
01:40:03.860 And the earth was full of violence
01:40:05.320 Filled with violence
01:40:06.340 Any of you see
01:40:08.620 The new NRA ad
01:40:09.660 You might want to look that up
01:40:12.000 I would say that's the most
01:40:14.040 Shocking
01:40:17.240 Manifestation of political polarization
01:40:20.000 In the United States
01:40:21.040 That I've yet seen
01:40:21.860 Most of it
01:40:22.660 I've seen on the left
01:40:23.680 Right
01:40:24.240 The real
01:40:24.880 What shocked me
01:40:25.960 Mostly
01:40:26.340 Has been on the left
01:40:27.160 But the new NRA ad
01:40:28.960 That's a whole new thing
01:40:30.860 So
01:40:31.120 It's this
01:40:32.160 Attractive woman
01:40:33.120 Doing a voiceover
01:40:35.020 She kind of looks like Demi Moore
01:40:36.300 Although she's kind of tough looking
01:40:37.700 I guess Demi Moore
01:40:38.720 Could look tough
01:40:39.320 Now and then
01:40:39.800 And
01:40:40.780 She has contempt
01:40:41.960 On her face
01:40:42.620 And that's a dangerous thing
01:40:46.400 And in the background
01:40:48.520 There's nothing but
01:40:49.280 Images of
01:40:50.420 Antifa riots
01:40:52.500 And Berkeley riots
01:40:53.840 And fire
01:40:54.980 And protest
01:40:56.340 And
01:40:57.780 She's describing
01:40:59.260 That as a conspiracy
01:41:01.600 Essentially
01:41:02.400 A conspiracy that involves
01:41:04.100 The intellectual elite
01:41:05.900 Including Hollywood
01:41:06.720 Which is named by name
01:41:08.240 The accusation is
01:41:11.980 Is that there's a cabal
01:41:13.480 Of
01:41:14.120 Corrupt intellectuals
01:41:16.880 Let's say
01:41:17.420 Who are
01:41:18.920 Bringing the country
01:41:20.540 To its knees
01:41:21.320 And that it's time
01:41:22.600 To get your
01:41:23.180 God damn guns
01:41:24.240 And so
01:41:25.760 Look up the ad
01:41:27.120 And see what you think
01:41:28.280 Because
01:41:29.380 There's lots of people
01:41:33.300 Who would be perfectly happy
01:41:34.440 If that was the direction
01:41:35.320 In which we're headed
01:41:36.120 And one of the things
01:41:37.880 That I'm hoping
01:41:38.480 Is that
01:41:38.880 We might be able
01:41:39.900 To talk our way
01:41:40.640 Through it
01:41:41.100 But we're in a situation
01:41:43.300 Where
01:41:43.680 Every act
01:41:45.760 Of individual
01:41:46.840 Idiocy
01:41:47.680 Will push us
01:41:49.360 One iota
01:41:51.320 Closer
01:41:52.040 To the brink
01:41:52.900 And that'll make
01:41:54.060 The 15%
01:41:55.060 Of the population
01:41:56.040 Or 30%
01:41:56.900 Of the population
01:41:57.620 Who would love
01:41:58.760 To see everything
01:41:59.780 Degenerate into chaos
01:42:01.280 Perfectly happy
01:42:02.720 Because that's
01:42:03.680 Their aim
01:42:04.240 The earth also
01:42:06.960 Was corrupt
01:42:07.420 Before God
01:42:08.020 And the earth
01:42:08.640 Was filled with violence
01:42:09.560 And God
01:42:09.940 Looked upon the earth
01:42:10.700 And behold
01:42:11.140 It was corrupt
01:42:11.820 For all flesh
01:42:13.000 Has corrupted his way
01:42:14.100 Upon the earth
01:42:14.780 And God said
01:42:16.280 Unto Noah
01:42:16.720 The end of all flesh
01:42:17.760 Has come before me
01:42:18.580 For the earth
01:42:19.320 Is filled with violence
01:42:20.280 Through them
01:42:20.800 And behold
01:42:21.220 I will destroy them
01:42:22.140 With the earth
01:42:22.720 Make thee an ark
01:42:25.420 Of gopher wood
01:42:26.140 Rooms shalt thou
01:42:27.420 Make in the ark
01:42:28.240 And shalt pitch it
01:42:30.320 Within and without
01:42:31.080 With pitch
01:42:31.580 And this is the fashion
01:42:32.660 Which thou shalt make of it
01:42:34.080 The length of the ark
01:42:35.040 Shall be 300 cubits
01:42:36.280 The breadth of it
01:42:36.940 50 cubits
01:42:37.600 And the height of it
01:42:38.160 30 cubits
01:42:38.880 A window shalt thou
01:42:40.680 Make to the ark
01:42:41.380 And in a cubit
01:42:42.120 Shalt thou finish it above
01:42:43.180 And the door of the ark
01:42:44.320 Shalt thou set
01:42:44.920 In the side thereof
01:42:45.780 With lower
01:42:46.180 Second and third stories
01:42:47.380 Shalt thou make it
01:42:48.260 And behold
01:42:49.880 I
01:42:51.480 Even I
01:42:52.020 Do bring a flood
01:42:52.840 Of waters upon the earth
01:42:53.920 To destroy all flesh
01:42:55.020 Wherein is the breath of life
01:42:56.260 From under heaven
01:42:57.320 And everything
01:42:58.120 That is in the earth
01:42:59.020 Shall die
01:42:59.660 But with thee
01:43:01.420 I will establish
01:43:02.200 My covenant
01:43:02.780 And thou shalt come
01:43:04.040 Into the ark
01:43:04.680 Thou and thy sons
01:43:05.680 And thy wife
01:43:06.240 And thy sons' wives
01:43:07.020 With thee
01:43:07.600 That's a fairly optimistic twist
01:43:09.920 On the story
01:43:10.460 Because not only is it Noah
01:43:11.740 But he gets to save his whole family
01:43:14.520 And down a couple of generations
01:43:16.000 And so that's a good thing
01:43:17.400 To think about
01:43:18.020 It's like
01:43:18.880 As things
01:43:19.900 You know
01:43:20.480 I had this client
01:43:21.840 And she had a very hard
01:43:25.960 Upbringing
01:43:27.280 I would say
01:43:28.080 Not a lot of encouragement
01:43:29.500 To say the least
01:43:30.500 Let's say a fair bit
01:43:31.540 Of discouragement
01:43:32.320 And
01:43:33.520 She had a son
01:43:34.940 And
01:43:35.660 What was really interesting
01:43:37.200 About
01:43:37.520 Her
01:43:39.220 In relationship
01:43:39.900 To her son
01:43:40.480 Is that
01:43:40.840 All the things
01:43:41.840 That she could have learned
01:43:42.700 To do to him
01:43:44.060 Given her extensive
01:43:45.360 Experience
01:43:46.360 With being made
01:43:47.440 As miserable
01:43:48.020 As possible
01:43:48.740 By someone
01:43:49.360 Who was hell-bent
01:43:50.160 On bringing her
01:43:50.800 To her knees
01:43:51.380 She refused
01:43:52.280 To do to her son
01:43:53.160 Right
01:43:53.920 She learned
01:43:54.300 The opposite lesson
01:43:55.360 From all her
01:43:56.720 Misery and torment
01:43:57.720 Which was not
01:43:58.440 To move that forward
01:43:59.360 Down the generations
01:44:00.280 And so the idea here
01:44:01.360 Is that
01:44:01.680 If you walk properly
01:44:03.640 And aim properly
01:44:04.480 And act properly
01:44:06.320 If you walk with God
01:44:08.040 In this manner
01:44:09.500 That we've been discussing
01:44:10.540 Is that
01:44:10.920 Perhaps that isn't
01:44:11.860 Only good for you
01:44:12.820 Perhaps it's also
01:44:13.740 The thing that will
01:44:14.600 Save your family
01:44:15.540 And then by implication
01:44:17.320 Perhaps saves society
01:44:18.600 Because that's exactly
01:44:19.580 What happens with Noah
01:44:20.540 Right
01:44:21.140 First it's him
01:44:22.020 And then it's his family
01:44:22.860 But everything else goes
01:44:24.100 And so
01:44:25.080 By saving himself
01:44:26.840 By acting properly
01:44:28.040 And by saving his family
01:44:29.260 He actually saves
01:44:30.340 The world
01:44:30.960 It's interesting
01:44:33.420 You know
01:44:33.640 Like the most profound
01:44:34.660 People that I've read
01:44:35.680 Who've meditated
01:44:37.880 Deeply on the problem
01:44:39.000 Say of
01:44:39.380 Totalitarian catastrophe
01:44:40.800 And I would put
01:44:41.460 Alexander Solzhenitsyn
01:44:42.560 At the top of that list
01:44:43.580 You know
01:44:44.520 His entire corpus
01:44:47.520 Three volumes
01:44:48.980 700 pages long
01:44:50.400 Each
01:44:50.700 In tiny type
01:44:51.680 Is a long scream
01:44:53.940 About the absolute necessity
01:44:56.160 Of individual
01:44:57.920 The absolute necessity
01:45:01.860 Of individual
01:45:02.860 Honesty
01:45:03.980 And ethical behavior
01:45:05.280 As the only bulwark
01:45:07.660 Against totalitarian catastrophe
01:45:09.560 And the
01:45:10.580 And I've read many writers
01:45:12.780 Who've attempted
01:45:13.460 To diagnose
01:45:14.280 The problems
01:45:15.440 Of the 20th century
01:45:16.500 And I think
01:45:18.280 Solzhenitsyn
01:45:19.220 He came to the same
01:45:22.040 Conclusions that
01:45:22.880 Viktor Frankl came to
01:45:24.320 As a consequence
01:45:25.280 Of his
01:45:25.720 Experiences in the
01:45:27.120 Nazi concentration camps
01:45:28.340 And Frankl
01:45:29.260 I'm also an admirer
01:45:30.800 Of Frankl
01:45:31.220 But Solzhenitsyn
01:45:32.320 Takes it to an entire
01:45:33.300 Different level
01:45:33.920 Of profundity
01:45:34.680 And makes an extraordinarily
01:45:36.460 Strong case
01:45:37.280 That
01:45:37.620 Not only
01:45:39.440 Do societies
01:45:40.560 Deteriorate
01:45:41.260 Because the people
01:45:42.300 Within the societies
01:45:43.360 Become individually corrupt
01:45:44.760 But that the only way
01:45:46.200 To stave that off
01:45:47.300 Is for the individuals
01:45:48.580 Within that society
01:45:49.500 To reject that corruption
01:45:50.940 In the confines
01:45:52.320 Of their own personal lives
01:45:53.540 And he tells
01:45:54.420 Endless stories
01:45:55.400 Of people
01:45:55.800 That he met
01:45:56.400 In the gulag
01:45:58.000 In the work camps
01:45:59.180 In the death camps
01:46:00.000 In the Soviet Union
01:46:00.820 Of people
01:46:01.580 And this is what he learned
01:46:02.520 Of people
01:46:02.900 Who were so
01:46:03.560 Incredibly tough
01:46:04.840 That even under
01:46:05.960 Conditions
01:46:06.740 The most possible
01:46:08.880 Extreme conditions
01:46:09.860 There wasn't a chance
01:46:11.740 That they were going to
01:46:12.760 Step off that
01:46:13.600 Straight and narrow line
01:46:14.560 There was nothing
01:46:15.720 The authorities could do
01:46:16.800 To move them
01:46:17.920 And
01:46:19.240 Just watching that
01:46:20.860 Was enough to
01:46:21.480 Transform Solzhenitsyn
01:46:22.620 Because of course
01:46:23.260 One of the things
01:46:23.840 He wondered was
01:46:24.560 After spending
01:46:26.260 A good amount of time
01:46:27.240 In the work camps
01:46:28.020 Was
01:46:28.800 Well just exactly
01:46:30.860 How did I get here
01:46:31.700 And it wasn't
01:46:33.360 Well it was Hitler's fault
01:46:34.660 And it was Stalin's fault
01:46:35.640 Although it was definitely
01:46:36.440 The fault of both of them
01:46:37.640 For Solzhenitsyn
01:46:38.840 It was
01:46:39.120 Well it was also his fault
01:46:40.700 Because he was playing
01:46:42.160 The same game
01:46:42.880 He just wasn't as good at it
01:46:44.540 And of every living thing
01:46:47.260 Of all flesh
01:46:47.900 Two of every sort
01:46:48.920 Shall they bring into the ark
01:46:50.120 To keep them alive
01:46:50.920 With thee
01:46:51.260 They shall be
01:46:51.880 Male and female
01:46:52.860 And so
01:46:53.460 There's another message
01:46:56.100 In this story
01:46:56.720 Which is that
01:46:57.180 It isn't only
01:46:57.940 Noah and his family
01:47:00.880 And human society
01:47:02.060 That's dependent
01:47:03.020 On Noah's
01:47:04.500 Appropriate actions
01:47:06.080 In the world
01:47:06.660 It's the entire
01:47:08.000 Living planet
01:47:09.620 And in an era
01:47:12.420 Of excessive
01:47:13.880 And extreme
01:47:14.980 And genuinely
01:47:16.220 Disingenuous
01:47:18.220 Environmental
01:47:19.320 Catastrophizing
01:47:20.500 That's something
01:47:21.600 To consider
01:47:22.660 Very seriously
01:47:23.920 Think
01:47:25.440 Perhaps there's nothing better
01:47:32.060 That you can do
01:47:32.880 For everything
01:47:34.580 All things considered
01:47:35.760 Including those things
01:47:36.920 That are outside
01:47:37.480 The confines of human society
01:47:38.980 Than to
01:47:39.940 Get your act together
01:47:41.480 And align yourself
01:47:42.460 Properly
01:47:43.160 Along all of the
01:47:44.620 Dimensions of your being
01:47:46.000 From
01:47:46.340 From the
01:47:47.620 Tiniest microcosm
01:47:49.220 To the
01:47:49.600 To the ultimate macrocosm
01:47:51.940 And that's the way
01:47:52.600 That all of being
01:47:53.800 Is redeemed
01:47:54.540 That's what the story
01:47:57.000 Suggests
01:47:57.840 And we read it
01:48:00.680 You know
01:48:01.020 As cynical
01:48:02.100 Modern people
01:48:02.860 We read it as if
01:48:03.860 It was written
01:48:04.840 By primitive people
01:48:05.860 Who thought
01:48:06.860 That it was really
01:48:07.840 The case
01:48:08.400 That someone
01:48:08.880 Could build a boat
01:48:09.680 And put two
01:48:10.560 Of every kind
01:48:11.300 Into it
01:48:11.840 And thereby
01:48:12.540 Save the world
01:48:13.440 It's embarrassing
01:48:17.440 To see things
01:48:18.380 Interpreted in a manner
01:48:19.840 That shallow
01:48:20.540 Especially by people
01:48:22.160 Who don't have
01:48:22.940 Ignorance as a justification
01:48:24.640 You know
01:48:25.400 These stories
01:48:25.920 Have to appeal
01:48:26.640 To everyone
01:48:27.200 Right
01:48:27.520 And there's lots
01:48:28.320 Of people in the world
01:48:29.160 Who aren't very bright
01:48:30.100 And so
01:48:31.120 They tend to
01:48:31.760 Take things
01:48:32.580 Concretely
01:48:33.120 Like a child
01:48:33.720 Would take things
01:48:34.440 Concretely
01:48:34.940 If you read them
01:48:35.460 A story
01:48:35.800 And this story
01:48:36.600 Can be taken
01:48:37.140 Concretely
01:48:37.820 But it has to be
01:48:39.100 Because these stories
01:48:39.820 Have to be for everyone
01:48:40.740 But if you're sophisticated
01:48:41.740 That doesn't mean
01:48:42.760 That you should
01:48:43.240 Dismiss it
01:48:44.680 As if it's
01:48:45.300 Written for a child
01:48:46.380 It's maybe
01:48:46.800 You have the obligation
01:48:47.740 To look a bit deeper
01:48:48.660 And think for a moment
01:48:49.800 That it wouldn't
01:48:50.240 Have been conserved
01:48:50.940 For these many
01:48:51.580 Thousands of years
01:48:52.520 If there wasn't
01:48:53.300 Something more to it
01:48:54.200 Than a casual
01:48:55.240 Intellectual dismissal
01:48:56.560 Would indicate
01:48:57.220 And take thou
01:48:59.620 Unto thee
01:49:00.100 Of all food
01:49:00.820 That is eaten
01:49:01.320 And thou shalt
01:49:02.080 Gather it to thee
01:49:02.780 And it shall be
01:49:03.440 Food for thee
01:49:03.960 And for them
01:49:04.480 Thus did Noah
01:49:05.560 According to all
01:49:06.760 That God commanded him
01:49:08.320 So did he
01:49:10.040 And the Lord
01:49:11.900 Said unto Noah
01:49:12.640 Come thou
01:49:13.140 And all thy house
01:49:13.860 Into the ark
01:49:14.420 For thee I have seen
01:49:15.520 Righteous before me
01:49:16.400 In this generation
01:49:17.220 Of every clean beast
01:49:18.840 Thou shalt take to thee
01:49:20.940 By sevens
01:49:21.540 The male and his female
01:49:22.380 And of beasts
01:49:22.980 That are clean
01:49:23.440 But not clean
01:49:24.280 By two
01:49:24.740 The male and his female
01:49:25.760 Of fowls also
01:49:27.100 Of the air by sevens
01:49:28.160 The male and the female
01:49:29.020 To keep seed alive
01:49:30.120 Upon the face
01:49:31.060 Of all the earth
01:49:31.720 For yet seven days
01:49:33.800 I will cause it
01:49:34.480 To rain upon the earth
01:49:35.960 Forty days and forty nights
01:49:37.400 And every living substance
01:49:38.400 That I have made
01:49:39.020 Will I destroy
01:49:39.640 From off the face
01:49:40.460 Of the earth
01:49:40.880 And Noah did
01:49:41.940 According unto all
01:49:43.060 That the Lord
01:49:43.700 Commanded him
01:49:44.500 And Noah was
01:49:46.460 Six hundred years old
01:49:47.420 When the flood
01:49:48.020 Of waters
01:49:48.720 Was upon the earth
01:49:49.600 And Noah went in
01:49:51.260 And his sons
01:49:51.800 And his wife
01:49:52.340 And his sons' wives
01:49:53.060 With him
01:49:53.480 Into the ark
01:49:54.080 Because of the waters
01:49:55.000 Of the flood
01:49:55.620 Of clean beasts
01:49:56.880 And of beasts
01:49:57.400 That are not clean
01:49:58.080 And of fowls
01:49:58.700 And of everything
01:49:59.240 That creepeth upon the earth
01:50:00.400 They went in
01:50:01.020 Two unto Noah
01:50:02.600 Into the ark
01:50:03.300 The male and the female
01:50:04.180 As God had commanded Noah
01:50:05.400 And it came to pass
01:50:06.860 After seven days
01:50:07.880 That the waters
01:50:08.740 Of the flood
01:50:09.400 Were upon the earth
01:50:10.580 In the six hundredth year
01:50:12.400 Of Noah's life
01:50:13.100 In the second month
01:50:13.940 The seventeenth day
01:50:15.100 Of the month
01:50:15.560 The same day
01:50:16.340 Were all the fountains
01:50:17.620 Of the great deep
01:50:18.680 Broken up
01:50:19.460 And the windows of heaven
01:50:20.780 Were opened
01:50:21.300 And the rain
01:50:22.040 Was upon the earth
01:50:22.920 Forty days and forty nights
01:50:24.320 In the selfsame day
01:50:26.400 Entered Noah and Shem
01:50:27.420 And Ham and Japheth
01:50:28.480 Sons of Noah
01:50:29.580 And Noah's wife
01:50:30.700 And the three wives
01:50:31.820 Of his sons with them
01:50:32.860 Into the ark
01:50:34.180 They and every beast
01:50:36.260 After his kind
01:50:36.980 And all of the cattle
01:50:37.820 After their kind
01:50:38.520 And every creeping thing
01:50:39.420 That creepeth upon the earth
01:50:40.460 After his kind
01:50:41.260 And every fowl
01:50:42.260 After his kind
01:50:42.980 Every bird of every sort
01:50:44.000 And they went into Noah
01:50:44.920 Unto Noah
01:50:45.900 Into the ark
01:50:46.540 Two and two of all flesh
01:50:48.300 Wherein is the breath of life
01:50:49.820 That makes Noah
01:50:55.560 The ultimate shepherd
01:50:56.660 Right
01:50:59.500 Shepherd of all things
01:51:00.720 Tender of the garden
01:51:05.660 And shepherd of all things
01:51:07.160 That's a hell of a role
01:51:10.740 And maybe that's the one
01:51:13.000 That keeps you afloat
01:51:13.900 During the flood
01:51:14.620 And they that went in
01:51:17.940 Went in male and female
01:51:18.880 Of all flesh
01:51:19.580 As God had commanded him
01:51:20.620 And the Lord shut him in
01:51:21.540 And the flood was forty days
01:51:22.840 Upon the earth
01:51:23.460 And the waters increased
01:51:24.380 And bear up the ark
01:51:25.540 And it was lift up
01:51:26.220 Above the earth
01:51:26.840 And the waters prevailed
01:51:27.840 And were increased greatly
01:51:29.380 Upon the earth
01:51:30.080 Fifteen cubits upward
01:51:32.760 Did the waters prevail
01:51:33.740 And the mountains were covered
01:51:34.820 And all flesh died
01:51:40.360 That moved upon the earth
01:51:41.460 Both of fowl
01:51:42.240 And of cattle
01:51:42.780 And of beast
01:51:43.320 And of every creeping thing
01:51:44.360 That creepeth upon the earth
01:51:45.440 And every man
01:51:46.100 And all in whose nostrils
01:51:48.240 Was the breath of life
01:51:49.340 Of all that was in the dry land
01:51:51.140 Died
01:51:52.020 And every living substance
01:51:55.000 Was destroyed
01:51:55.780 Which was upon the face
01:51:56.800 Of the earth
01:51:57.300 Both man and cattle
01:51:58.960 And the creeping things
01:51:59.780 And the fowl of the heaven
01:52:00.740 And they were destroyed
01:52:02.120 From the earth
01:52:02.740 And Noah only remained alive
01:52:04.260 And they that were with him
01:52:05.640 In the ark
01:52:06.140 And the waters prevailed
01:52:07.620 Upon the earth
01:52:08.340 A hundred and fifty days
01:52:09.880 And God remembered Noah
01:52:13.000 And every living thing
01:52:13.800 And all the cattle
01:52:14.460 That was with him
01:52:15.020 In the ark
01:52:15.480 And God made a wind
01:52:16.980 To pass over the earth
01:52:17.960 And the waters receded
01:52:19.840 The fountains
01:52:21.560 Also of the deep
01:52:22.520 And the windows of heaven
01:52:23.360 Were stopped
01:52:23.860 And the rain from heaven
01:52:24.680 Was restrained
01:52:25.340 And the waters returned
01:52:26.200 From off the earth continually
01:52:27.540 And after the end
01:52:28.580 Of the hundred and fifty days
01:52:29.700 The waters were abated
01:52:30.760 And the ark rested
01:52:32.760 In the seventh month
01:52:33.720 On the seventeenth day
01:52:34.680 Of the month
01:52:35.100 Upon the mountains
01:52:35.780 Of Ararat
01:52:36.360 And the waters decreased
01:52:37.700 Continually until the tenth month
01:52:39.300 In the tenth month
01:52:40.520 On the first day of the month
01:52:41.900 Were the tops of the mountains seen
01:52:43.360 And it came to pass
01:52:45.900 At the end of forty days
01:52:46.880 That Noah opened the window
01:52:47.920 Of the ark
01:52:48.400 Which he had made
01:52:49.020 And he sent forth a raven
01:52:50.220 Which went to and fro
01:52:51.500 Until the waters were dried up
01:52:52.900 From off the earth
01:52:53.900 And he also sent forth
01:52:55.860 A dove from him
01:52:56.640 To see if the waters
01:52:57.480 Were abated from off
01:52:58.360 The face of the ground
01:52:59.140 But the dove found no rest
01:53:00.600 For the sole of her foot
01:53:01.600 And she returned unto him
01:53:02.980 In the ark
01:53:03.520 For the waters
01:53:04.560 Were on the face
01:53:05.220 Of the whole earth
01:53:05.980 Then he put forth his hand
01:53:07.380 And took her
01:53:07.880 And pulled her in
01:53:08.540 Unto him
01:53:09.080 Into the ark
01:53:10.060 And he stayed yet another
01:53:11.300 Seven days
01:53:12.020 And again he sent forth
01:53:13.400 The dove out of the ark
01:53:14.440 And the dove came into him
01:53:16.700 In the evening
01:53:17.140 And low in her mouth
01:53:18.060 Was an olive leaf
01:53:18.880 Plucked off
01:53:19.600 So Noah knew
01:53:20.520 That the waters
01:53:21.100 Were abated from off the earth
01:53:22.500 And he stayed there
01:53:24.400 Yet another seven days
01:53:25.520 And sent forth the dove
01:53:26.540 Which returned not again
01:53:27.580 Unto him anymore
01:53:28.400 And it came to pass
01:53:29.500 In the six hundredth
01:53:30.680 And first year
01:53:31.840 In the first month
01:53:32.740 The first day of the month
01:53:33.700 The waters were dried up
01:53:35.260 From off the earth
01:53:36.000 And Noah removed the covering
01:53:37.860 Of the ark
01:53:38.380 And looked up
01:53:38.980 And behold
01:53:39.600 The face of the ground
01:53:40.900 Was dry
01:53:41.440 And in the second month
01:53:44.340 On the seventh
01:53:44.900 And twentieth day of the month
01:53:46.060 Was the earth dried
01:53:47.080 And God spake unto Noah
01:53:48.980 Saying
01:53:49.380 Go forth of the ark
01:53:50.840 Thou and thy wife
01:53:51.900 And thy sons
01:53:52.560 And thy sons' wives
01:53:53.440 With thee
01:53:53.920 And bring forth with thee
01:53:56.020 Every living thing
01:53:57.000 That is with thee
01:53:57.740 Of all flesh
01:53:58.700 Both of fowl
01:53:59.840 And of cattle
01:54:00.480 And of every creeping thing
01:54:01.600 That creepeth upon the earth
01:54:02.740 That they may breed abundantly
01:54:05.100 In the earth
01:54:05.600 And be fruitful
01:54:06.200 And multiply upon the earth
01:54:07.540 And Noah went forth
01:54:08.440 And his sons
01:54:09.000 And his wife
01:54:09.540 And his sons' wives
01:54:10.300 With him
01:54:10.740 Every beast
01:54:11.580 Creeping thing
01:54:12.280 Every fowl
01:54:13.040 And whatsoever
01:54:13.800 Creepeth upon the earth
01:54:14.980 After their kinds
01:54:15.780 Went forth out of the ark
01:54:17.020 And Noah
01:54:18.900 Built in an altar
01:54:19.800 Unto the Lord
01:54:20.600 And took of every clean beast
01:54:22.200 And of every clean fowl
01:54:23.420 And offered burnt offerings
01:54:25.140 On the altar
01:54:25.860 Immediate return
01:54:27.840 To the sacrificial motif
01:54:29.220 And the Lord
01:54:33.620 Smelled a sweet savour
01:54:34.840 And that's Noah's
01:54:36.320 Proper sacrifice
01:54:37.420 And the Lord
01:54:38.840 Said into his heart
01:54:39.900 I will not again
01:54:40.900 Curse the ground
01:54:41.720 Anymore for man's sake
01:54:43.020 For the imagination
01:54:44.540 Of man's heart
01:54:45.380 Is evil
01:54:45.900 From his youth
01:54:46.780 Neither will I again
01:54:48.580 Smite anymore
01:54:49.400 Every living thing
01:54:50.320 As I have done
01:54:51.220 While the earth
01:54:51.880 Remaineth
01:54:52.420 Seed time and harvest
01:54:53.740 And cold and heat
01:54:54.540 And summer and winter
01:54:55.340 And day and night
01:54:56.600 Shall not cease
01:54:57.400 And God
01:54:59.920 God blessed Noah
01:55:00.440 And his sons
01:55:00.940 And said unto them
01:55:01.640 Be fruitful
01:55:02.160 And multiply
01:55:02.780 And replenish the earth
01:55:04.300 And the fear of you
01:55:06.200 And the dread of you
01:55:06.900 Shall be upon every beast
01:55:08.000 Of the earth
01:55:08.540 And upon every fowl
01:55:09.860 Of the air
01:55:10.380 Upon all
01:55:11.520 That moveth
01:55:12.260 Upon the earth
01:55:12.940 Upon all the fishes
01:55:13.900 Of the sea
01:55:14.500 Into your hand
01:55:15.620 Are they delivered
01:55:16.280 You know
01:55:25.720 I've heard
01:55:27.100 Commentators
01:55:29.160 David Suzuki
01:55:30.060 For example
01:55:30.700 Who claimed that
01:55:35.020 The substructure
01:55:36.880 Of western culture
01:55:37.780 In lines such as this
01:55:41.940 Deliver the earth
01:55:45.280 Over to human beings
01:55:46.200 And justify
01:55:47.180 Our ravaging
01:55:48.600 Of the
01:55:49.400 Of being
01:55:52.820 But I don't
01:55:55.060 Think that that's
01:55:56.160 A very careful reading
01:55:57.640 And it seems to me
01:55:59.080 That
01:55:59.320 Given such matters
01:56:01.920 Given the importance
01:56:03.520 Of such matters
01:56:04.300 That a very close reading
01:56:05.320 Is actually necessary
01:56:06.420 You know
01:56:08.200 In the story
01:56:08.860 Of Adam and Eve
01:56:09.500 When Adam and Eve
01:56:11.260 Are thrown out
01:56:11.860 Of the garden
01:56:12.360 God tells Eve
01:56:14.100 That she's going to
01:56:14.920 Be subordinated
01:56:16.400 To her husband
01:56:17.040 He doesn't say
01:56:18.300 That that's what
01:56:18.920 Should happen
01:56:19.700 He says
01:56:21.500 That's what's
01:56:21.940 Going to happen
01:56:22.900 And the same thing
01:56:24.220 As far as I'm concerned
01:56:25.180 Is contained
01:56:26.400 In lines like this
01:56:27.320 It isn't necessarily
01:56:28.680 That this is something
01:56:29.700 That should happen
01:56:30.520 It's something
01:56:31.060 That did happen
01:56:32.460 It's quite remarkable
01:56:34.100 You know
01:56:34.580 To think about
01:56:35.540 How long ago
01:56:36.300 These lines were penned
01:56:38.440 It wasn't obvious
01:56:39.700 Until perhaps
01:56:40.700 The 1960s
01:56:41.680 That we had dominated
01:56:42.560 The earth
01:56:43.060 So completely
01:56:43.900 That its very
01:56:45.240 Future existence
01:56:46.880 Was in our hands
01:56:47.980 And that's
01:56:49.140 A prophetic element
01:56:50.400 Of this tale
01:56:51.220 And the fear of you
01:56:55.500 And the dread
01:56:55.920 Of you
01:56:56.140 Shall be upon
01:56:56.700 Every beast
01:56:57.260 Of the earth
01:56:57.720 And upon
01:56:58.040 Every fowl
01:56:58.580 Of the air
01:56:59.020 And upon
01:56:59.380 All that
01:56:59.880 Moveth upon
01:57:00.440 The earth
01:57:00.880 And upon
01:57:01.980 All the fishes
01:57:02.680 Of the sea
01:57:03.260 Into your hand
01:57:04.100 Are they delivered
01:57:04.940 It's like
01:57:05.920 That's exactly right
01:57:07.160 Every moving thing
01:57:09.880 That liveth
01:57:10.320 Shall be meat
01:57:10.860 For you
01:57:11.240 Even as the green herb
01:57:12.240 I have given you
01:57:13.000 All things
01:57:13.640 Have I given you
01:57:14.700 All things
01:57:15.200 But flesh
01:57:16.160 With the life
01:57:16.680 Thereof
01:57:17.080 Which is the blood
01:57:17.680 Thereof
01:57:18.100 Shall you not eat
01:57:19.480 And surely
01:57:22.740 Your blood
01:57:23.280 Of your lives
01:57:24.060 Will I require
01:57:24.740 At the hand
01:57:25.280 Of every beast
01:57:25.860 Will I require
01:57:26.500 And at the hand
01:57:27.120 Of man
01:57:27.460 At the hand
01:57:27.940 Of every man's brother
01:57:28.880 Will I require
01:57:29.560 The life of man
01:57:30.260 This is a hard
01:57:31.380 Section to interpret
01:57:32.720 But what it means
01:57:33.760 Is something like this
01:57:34.720 God
01:57:36.500 Describes
01:57:37.840 The dominion
01:57:38.600 Over the planet
01:57:39.280 That
01:57:39.600 Revivified humanity
01:57:41.840 Will have
01:57:42.540 And
01:57:43.840 Notes
01:57:44.920 The power
01:57:45.820 That goes along
01:57:46.600 With that
01:57:46.980 And then puts
01:57:47.460 A limitation on it
01:57:48.460 And the limitation is
01:57:50.060 Maintain the sanctity
01:57:52.920 Of life
01:57:53.420 Despite your power
01:57:55.320 And although
01:57:56.640 It's not easy
01:57:57.300 To extract
01:57:58.900 From the manner
01:58:00.100 In which this
01:58:00.740 Is being translated
01:58:01.620 What God
01:58:02.640 Is telling Noah
01:58:03.360 Is that
01:58:04.040 If you kill yourself
01:58:05.960 If you kill
01:58:07.020 Someone else
01:58:07.760 And if any animal
01:58:08.820 Kills a human being
01:58:09.860 That there will be
01:58:10.940 A price to pay
01:58:11.860 For that
01:58:12.380 So there's
01:58:13.480 An opportunity
01:58:15.460 Which is that
01:58:16.420 The descendants
01:58:18.260 Of Noah
01:58:18.800 Can dominate the earth
01:58:19.920 But there's a moral
01:58:20.960 Limitation
01:58:22.140 Placed on that
01:58:22.960 Which is
01:58:23.760 Nonetheless
01:58:24.600 Life itself
01:58:26.200 Is to be regarded
01:58:27.120 As
01:58:27.540 Sanctified
01:58:29.040 And sacred
01:58:29.680 Whoever sheddeth
01:58:34.140 Man's blood
01:58:34.720 By man
01:58:35.160 Shall his blood
01:58:35.740 Be shed
01:58:36.220 For in the image
01:58:37.460 Of God
01:58:38.040 Made he man
01:58:39.100 And you
01:58:40.300 Be fruitful
01:58:41.000 And multiply
01:58:41.660 Bring forth abundantly
01:58:42.940 In the earth
01:58:43.460 And multiply therein
01:58:44.920 And God
01:58:47.340 Spake unto Noah
01:58:48.120 And to his sons
01:58:48.960 With him
01:58:49.320 Saying
01:58:49.660 And I
01:58:50.500 Behold
01:58:51.000 I establish
01:58:51.560 My covenant
01:58:52.100 With you
01:58:52.600 And with your seed
01:58:53.620 After you
01:58:54.120 And with every living
01:58:54.840 Creature that is with you
01:58:55.780 Of the fowl
01:58:56.340 And the cattle
01:58:56.880 And of every beast
01:58:57.620 Of earth
01:58:58.000 That is with you
01:58:59.460 For all that go out
01:59:00.420 Of the ark
01:59:00.820 To every beast
01:59:01.480 Of the earth
01:59:02.040 And I will establish
01:59:04.880 My covenant
01:59:05.520 With you
01:59:06.080 Neither shall all flesh
01:59:09.720 Be cut off anymore
01:59:10.520 By the waters
01:59:11.120 Of a flood
01:59:11.640 Neither shall there
01:59:12.440 Be anymore
01:59:13.080 A flood
01:59:13.760 To destroy the earth
01:59:14.800 And God said
01:59:16.960 This is the token
01:59:17.660 Of the covenant
01:59:18.220 Which I make
01:59:18.800 Between me and you
01:59:19.540 And every living creature
01:59:20.320 That is with you
01:59:20.940 For perpetual generations
01:59:22.120 I do set my bow
01:59:23.560 In the cloud
01:59:24.160 And it shall be
01:59:25.100 For a token
01:59:25.640 Of a covenant
01:59:26.200 Between me and the earth
01:59:27.260 And it shall come
01:59:28.140 To pass
01:59:28.600 When I bring a cloud
01:59:29.400 Over the earth
01:59:29.940 That the bow
01:59:30.780 Shall be seen
01:59:31.620 In the cloud
01:59:32.120 And I will remember
01:59:32.840 My covenant
01:59:33.460 Which is between me
01:59:35.300 And you
01:59:35.600 And every living creature
01:59:36.460 Of all flesh
01:59:37.160 And the water
01:59:37.660 Shall no more
01:59:38.260 Become a flood
01:59:38.900 To destroy all flesh
01:59:40.080 There's a negotiated
01:59:41.680 Agreement there
01:59:42.540 Of sorts
01:59:43.520 And the negotiated
01:59:44.840 Agreement is
01:59:45.680 As far as I can tell
01:59:49.040 To the degree
01:59:50.960 That humanity
01:59:51.640 Agrees to act
01:59:52.640 In the manner
01:59:53.380 Of Noah
01:59:54.460 Then the threat
01:59:56.820 Of catastrophic
01:59:58.680 Destruction
01:59:59.380 Will remain
02:00:00.080 At bay
02:00:00.720 And the bow
02:00:10.120 Shall be in the cloud
02:00:10.940 And I will look upon it
02:00:11.760 That I may remember
02:00:12.480 The everlasting covenant
02:00:13.420 Between God
02:00:14.060 And every living creature
02:00:14.860 Of all flesh
02:00:15.600 That is upon the earth
02:00:16.840 And God said unto Noah
02:00:18.180 This is the token
02:00:19.340 Of the covenant
02:00:20.000 Which I have established
02:00:21.340 Between me and all flesh
02:00:22.500 That is upon the earth
02:00:23.520 This is the token
02:00:30.080 Of the covenant
02:00:30.620 Which I have established
02:00:31.520 Between me and all flesh
02:00:32.740 That is upon the earth
02:00:34.340 So that's a good place
02:00:38.840 To stop
02:00:39.340 And there's no lecture
02:00:42.380 Next week
02:00:42.960 By the way
02:00:43.720 Because the theater
02:00:44.560 Was booked
02:00:45.020 So there'll be
02:00:45.600 A one week break
02:00:46.440 And then when we get back
02:00:48.060 We'll finish the story
02:00:50.080 Of Noah
02:00:50.400 There's not much left
02:00:51.300 Of it
02:00:51.600 We'll talk about
02:00:53.140 The Tower of Babel
02:00:54.000 Which is a very short story
02:00:55.080 But a very very interesting one
02:00:56.500 And then we'll move on
02:00:57.820 To the story of Abraham
02:00:59.380 And so
02:01:01.000 Thank you very much
02:01:01.960 For coming
02:01:02.340 And we'll see you
02:01:02.900 In two weeks
02:01:03.440 Now is the person
02:01:24.080 Who has the notification
02:01:25.140 For the meetup
02:01:26.180 After this
02:01:26.940 Here
02:01:27.420 And do they have
02:01:28.260 The notification
02:01:29.020 Okay
02:01:29.620 Because if you give that
02:01:30.600 To me
02:01:30.860 This time
02:01:31.280 I'll remember to read it
02:01:32.320 Before everyone leaves
02:01:33.500 So
02:01:34.820 Do you want to start
02:01:35.700 Yeah
02:01:36.620 Okay so
02:01:38.180 See
02:01:40.240 Let's see if the mic is working
02:01:42.140 Because lots of people
02:01:43.040 Will listen to this question
02:01:44.280 And so
02:01:44.780 Okay
02:01:45.620 Okay
02:01:46.620 So you said
02:01:48.680 On a recent live stream
02:01:49.540 That you were to
02:01:50.220 You didn't have enough energy
02:01:51.300 To answer this question
02:01:52.180 But you said it was
02:01:53.280 Intriguing
02:01:54.300 So I was wondering
02:01:55.820 If you had the energy
02:01:57.640 To answer
02:01:58.760 How someone
02:02:00.040 Might help
02:02:00.840 Someone that has
02:02:01.800 Borderline personality disorder
02:02:03.140 Ha
02:02:04.080 By example
02:02:07.220 By example
02:02:10.740 No
02:02:14.580 No no
02:02:15.700 I don't
02:02:16.300 I don't mean that
02:02:17.140 Precisely
02:02:17.800 I mean that
02:02:18.400 The
02:02:19.340 Let's not take
02:02:20.920 Borderline personality disorder
02:02:22.280 Precisely as
02:02:23.040 The example
02:02:23.740 Okay
02:02:24.040 I understand
02:02:25.160 The question
02:02:26.200 The question
02:02:27.400 To some degree
02:02:28.020 Is how do you
02:02:28.640 Help someone
02:02:29.120 That's lost
02:02:29.820 And the answer
02:02:31.280 To that is
02:02:31.880 If they aren't
02:02:33.500 Willing to not
02:02:34.340 Be lost
02:02:34.920 You cannot
02:02:35.440 Help them
02:02:36.060 And I would also
02:02:37.640 Say that as a
02:02:38.280 Clinician
02:02:38.780 You see
02:02:40.060 I mean
02:02:41.420 It's a statement
02:02:42.440 That's informed
02:02:43.200 I would say
02:02:43.920 By my mythological
02:02:44.860 Knowledge
02:02:45.240 But also
02:02:45.720 By
02:02:46.200 Straight clinical
02:02:48.000 Wisdom
02:02:49.780 Not mine
02:02:50.780 Particularly
02:02:51.700 I mean
02:02:52.620 One of the things
02:02:53.120 That Carl Rogers
02:02:53.820 Pointed out
02:02:54.340 Was that
02:02:54.640 There were necessary
02:02:55.320 Preconditions
02:02:55.960 For entering
02:02:56.440 Into a therapeutic
02:02:57.180 Relationship
02:02:57.920 And that
02:02:58.400 That would be
02:02:58.740 Really any
02:02:59.160 Relationship
02:02:59.780 Where the
02:03:00.540 Mutual
02:03:01.000 Flourishing
02:03:01.700 Of the two
02:03:02.200 People involved
02:03:02.920 Was the
02:03:03.500 Paramount goal
02:03:04.240 And one of
02:03:05.500 The preconditions
02:03:06.180 Was that
02:03:06.640 Both people
02:03:07.460 Had to want
02:03:07.940 That to happen
02:03:08.540 And Rogers
02:03:10.080 Believed
02:03:10.980 He didn't
02:03:11.680 Know how
02:03:12.300 To
02:03:12.640 Get the horse
02:03:14.800 To drink
02:03:15.240 Once you
02:03:15.620 Had brought
02:03:15.900 It to the
02:03:16.220 Water
02:03:16.460 And I've
02:03:17.420 Thought about
02:03:17.780 That a lot
02:03:18.380 Because
02:03:19.180 When people
02:03:19.760 Are really
02:03:20.160 Lost
02:03:20.680 Sometimes
02:03:21.620 They're so
02:03:22.180 Lost
02:03:22.540 That
02:03:22.780 That they
02:03:24.760 Can't be
02:03:25.280 Found
02:03:25.640 And I
02:03:26.680 Think the
02:03:26.980 Only thing
02:03:27.620 That you
02:03:27.900 Can do
02:03:28.140 In a
02:03:28.340 Situation
02:03:28.720 Like that
02:03:29.220 Is
02:03:29.520 Get your
02:03:31.040 Life
02:03:31.240 Together
02:03:31.600 And
02:03:32.780 Manifest
02:03:34.660 The reality
02:03:35.380 Of an
02:03:35.680 Alternative
02:03:36.180 Mode
02:03:36.460 Of being
02:03:36.900 That's
02:03:37.900 What you've
02:03:38.260 Got
02:03:38.520 And so
02:03:39.940 That's the
02:03:41.560 Only way
02:03:41.860 I know
02:03:42.180 Of
02:03:42.380 To solve
02:03:43.360 An intractable
02:03:44.040 Problem
02:03:44.420 And I
02:03:46.180 Would say
02:03:46.580 The reason
02:03:47.960 That I
02:03:48.460 Went down
02:03:49.060 That direction
02:03:49.620 With regards
02:03:50.160 To borderline
02:03:50.760 Personality
02:03:51.200 Disorders
02:03:51.640 Because it's
02:03:52.200 One of the
02:03:52.640 Most serious
02:03:53.240 Of the
02:03:53.600 Personality
02:03:53.980 Disorders
02:03:54.380 Very
02:03:54.660 Difficult
02:03:55.060 To treat
02:03:55.520 And so
02:03:56.840 I'll
02:03:58.140 Generalize
02:03:58.740 From that
02:03:59.220 To
02:03:59.540 Situations
02:04:00.820 That are
02:04:01.200 Very
02:04:01.620 Difficult
02:04:02.320 To deal
02:04:02.900 With
02:04:03.240 And you
02:04:04.520 Know
02:04:04.600 There's a
02:04:04.980 Statement
02:04:05.320 To
02:04:05.520 And this
02:04:05.800 Has
02:04:05.960 Nothing
02:04:06.220 To do
02:04:06.600 With
02:04:06.840 Borderline
02:04:07.340 Personality
02:04:07.800 Disorder
02:04:08.280 Per se
02:04:08.720 There's
02:04:09.320 A statement
02:04:09.780 In the
02:04:10.080 New
02:04:10.220 Testament
02:04:10.560 That's
02:04:10.860 Really
02:04:11.080 Vicious
02:04:11.500 In fact
02:04:12.260 There's
02:04:12.420 A number
02:04:12.700 Of
02:04:12.880 Them
02:04:13.000 But
02:04:13.140 This
02:04:13.360 Is
02:04:13.480 A
02:04:13.580 Particularly
02:04:13.940 Vicious
02:04:14.300 One
02:04:14.580 And
02:04:15.100 That
02:04:15.300 Is
02:04:15.580 Don't
02:04:16.680 Cast
02:04:17.080 Pearls
02:04:17.540 Before
02:04:17.880 Swine
02:04:18.420 And
02:04:19.680 What
02:04:19.860 That
02:04:20.080 Means
02:04:20.360 Is
02:04:20.680 If
02:04:22.160 You're
02:04:22.300 Trying
02:04:22.520 To
02:04:22.660 Help
02:04:22.880 And
02:04:23.000 It
02:04:23.100 Doesn't
02:04:23.340 Work
02:04:23.600 Then
02:04:23.840 Stop
02:04:24.400 Helping
02:04:24.960 It's
02:04:26.560 Not
02:04:26.940 Helping
02:04:27.560 Right
02:04:28.300 It
02:04:28.420 May
02:04:28.540 Be
02:04:28.640 Just
02:04:28.840 Wasting
02:04:29.400 Your
02:04:29.660 Time
02:04:30.040 It
02:04:30.480 Might
02:04:30.620 Be
02:04:30.780 Making
02:04:31.100 Things
02:04:31.480 Worse
02:04:31.960 Now
02:04:32.560 If
02:04:32.760 You're
02:04:32.980 If
02:04:33.380 You're
02:04:33.520 Offering
02:04:33.940 Something
02:04:34.320 And
02:04:34.520 It's
02:04:34.680 Not
02:04:34.940 Taken
02:04:35.620 Then
02:04:36.520 Perhaps
02:04:36.840 You
02:04:37.000 Should
02:04:37.140 Be
02:04:37.280 Offering
02:04:37.600 It
02:04:37.740 Somewhere
02:04:38.020 Else
02:04:38.400 And
02:04:39.320 Sometimes
02:04:39.880 If
02:04:41.720 You
02:04:41.880 Offer
02:04:42.180 A hand
02:04:42.460 And
02:04:42.580 The
02:04:42.720 Person
02:04:42.980 Won't
02:04:43.280 Take
02:04:43.580 It
02:04:43.680 You
02:04:43.820 Have
02:04:44.120 To
02:04:44.280 Stop
02:04:44.600 Offering
02:04:45.040 The
02:04:45.240 Hand
02:04:45.560 And
02:04:46.380 Then
02:04:46.500 What
02:04:46.660 You
02:04:46.760 Do
02:04:46.900 Is
02:04:47.040 You
02:04:47.140 Go
02:04:47.360 Off
02:04:47.700 And
02:04:47.880 You
02:04:48.660 Have
02:04:49.320 Your
02:04:49.500 Life
02:04:49.860 And
02:04:50.480 Sometimes
02:04:50.840 That
02:04:51.060 Means
02:04:51.320 In
02:04:51.480 People's
02:04:51.800 Lives
02:04:52.040 For
02:04:52.220 Example
02:04:52.560 That
02:04:52.700 They
02:04:52.820 Have
02:04:52.980 To
02:04:53.100 Leave
02:04:53.260 Their
02:04:53.420 Family
02:04:53.720 Members
02:04:54.060 Behind
02:04:54.420 There's
02:04:54.920 A
02:04:55.040 Scene
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02:15:47.680 Like
02:15:47.940 So
02:15:53.540 You
02:15:53.740 Know
02:15:53.860 You
02:15:54.040 Can
02:15:54.500 Just
02:15:54.720 Run
02:15:55.240 Over
02:15:55.620 That
02:15:55.960 If
02:15:56.160 You
02:15:56.260 Are
02:15:56.380 Tyrannical
02:15:57.120 And
02:15:57.280 Organized
02:15:57.680 You
02:15:57.800 Can
02:15:57.900 Just
02:15:58.040 Run
02:15:58.320 Over
02:15:58.480 That
02:15:58.680 Like
02:15:58.820 There
02:15:58.960 Is
02:15:59.040 Nothing
02:15:59.420 There
02:15:59.740 At
02:16:00.060 All
02:16:00.440 And
02:16:01.060 I
02:16:01.440 Think
02:16:01.620 There
02:16:01.820 Is
02:16:01.980 A
02:16:02.140 Danger
02:16:02.480 And
02:16:02.760 I
02:16:03.040 Do
02:16:03.200 Think
02:16:03.460 That
02:16:03.660 We
02:16:03.820 Enticing
02:16:04.720 The
02:16:05.540 Islamo
02:16:06.260 Fascists
02:16:07.020 Let's
02:16:07.520 Say
02:16:07.800 By
02:16:08.420 Our
02:16:08.660 Nihilistic
02:16:09.280 Weakness
02:16:09.840 And
02:16:10.420 I
02:16:10.560 Think
02:16:10.780 More
02:16:11.240 Than
02:16:11.440 That
02:16:11.660 I
02:16:11.840 Think
02:16:12.080 That
02:16:12.260 We're
02:16:12.500 Doing
02:16:12.660 Something
02:16:12.960 More
02:16:13.200 Than
02:16:13.320 That
02:16:13.440 Because
02:16:13.640 One
02:16:13.860 Of
02:16:13.960 The
02:16:14.060 Things
02:16:14.280 That
02:16:14.440 I've
02:16:14.620 Been
02:16:14.740 Curious
02:16:15.120 About
02:16:15.380 And
02:16:15.680 I'm
02:16:15.800 Going
02:16:15.980 Way
02:16:16.180 Out
02:16:16.340 On
02:16:16.480 A limb
02:16:16.780 Here
02:16:17.060 Is
02:16:17.660 I've
02:16:17.880 Been
02:16:18.000 Really
02:16:18.220 Interested
02:16:18.660 In
02:16:18.860 The
02:16:18.980 Alliance
02:16:19.340 Between
02:16:19.720 The
02:16:20.000 Neomarxist
02:16:20.820 Nihilists
02:16:21.420 Especially
02:16:21.900 The
02:16:22.100 Neomarxist
02:16:22.760 Postmodernists
02:16:23.620 Especially
02:16:23.980 The
02:16:24.180 Feminists
02:16:24.760 And
02:16:25.220 The
02:16:25.340 Islamo
02:16:25.760 Fascists
02:16:26.320 I
02:16:26.780 Just
02:16:37.020 Sub
02:16:37.940 Structure
02:16:38.400 There's
02:16:39.040 A
02:16:39.200 Huge
02:16:39.660 Call
02:16:40.100 For
02:16:40.340 Tyrannical
02:16:40.880 Order
02:16:41.140 That
02:16:41.360 Manifests
02:16:41.880 Itself
02:16:42.260 Unconsciously
02:16:43.100 And
02:16:43.780 So
02:16:43.940 That's
02:16:44.300 The
02:16:44.440 Dynamic
02:16:44.800 That
02:16:45.020 I
02:16:45.140 See
02:16:45.300 Playing
02:16:45.620 Out
02:16:45.840 In
02:16:46.220 That
02:16:46.440 Peculiar
02:16:47.380 Relationship
02:16:48.180 Between
02:16:48.480 The
02:16:48.680 Modern
02:16:49.040 Neomarxist
02:16:50.520 Feminists
02:16:51.060 And
02:16:51.260 The
02:16:51.760 Islamo
02:16:52.280 Fascists
02:16:52.900 I
02:16:56.760 Don't
02:16:57.100 I
02:16:57.340 Don't
02:16:57.560 Know
02:16:57.780 That's
02:16:58.100 A
02:16:58.180 Very
02:16:58.380 That's
02:16:58.680 Very
02:16:58.900 Interesting
02:16:59.480 That
02:17:00.240 That's
02:17:00.900 A
02:17:00.980 Very
02:17:01.140 Interesting
02:17:01.560 Idea
02:17:02.480 That
02:17:02.760 You
02:17:02.920 Brought
02:17:03.260 To
02:17:03.460 Mind
02:17:03.740 I
02:17:03.900 Had
02:17:04.100 No
02:17:04.280 Idea
02:17:04.580 That
02:17:04.800 There
02:17:04.960 Was
02:17:05.140 Relationship
02:17:05.960 Between
02:17:06.360 Heidegger
02:17:07.140 And
02:17:07.320 What
02:17:07.460 Happened
02:17:07.860 In
02:17:08.000 Iran
02:17:08.280 In
02:17:08.420 The
02:17:08.500 1970s
02:17:09.280 If
02:17:10.100 You
02:17:10.260 Could
02:17:10.460 Send
02:17:10.780 Me
02:17:10.980 A
02:17:11.340 Citation
02:17:11.860 About
02:17:12.240 That
02:17:12.520 Or
02:17:12.640 Something
02:17:12.860 To
02:17:13.060 Read
02:17:13.260 I'd
02:17:13.440 Be
02:17:13.540 Very
02:17:13.800 Interested
02:17:14.160 In
02:17:14.360 Doing
02:17:14.580 That
02:17:14.860 So
02:17:15.140 Okay
02:17:15.900 Yep
02:17:16.500 Yep
02:17:16.940 Thank
02:17:26.640 You
02:17:26.940 That's
02:17:30.100 That's
02:17:30.620 The
02:17:30.760 Closest
02:17:31.260 Thing
02:17:31.560 I
02:17:31.700 Think
02:17:31.880 I'll
02:17:32.020 Experience
02:17:32.440 To
02:17:32.640 Arnold
02:17:33.440 Schwarzenegger
02:17:34.120 Actually
02:17:34.460 Delivering
02:17:34.940 That
02:17:35.200 Line
02:17:35.500 I've
02:17:37.760 Got
02:17:37.960 A
02:17:38.140 Mind
02:17:38.480 To
02:17:38.760 Victory
02:17:39.220 It
02:17:39.460 Gives
02:17:39.740 Me
02:17:39.940 Spice
02:17:40.560 Yeah
02:17:41.300 The
02:17:55.100 Purito
02:18:01.400 Distribution
02:18:01.980 Yeah
02:18:02.300 Yeah
02:18:02.800 Yeah
02:18:03.240 Not
02:18:03.800 Ross
02:18:04.200 But
02:18:04.600 Yeah
02:18:05.260 Do
02:18:12.080 Half
02:18:12.380 The
02:18:12.560 Work
02:18:12.840 Oh
02:18:15.740 It's
02:18:15.980 A
02:18:16.120 Nasty
02:18:16.520 It's
02:18:16.900 A
02:18:17.020 Nasty
02:18:17.340 Law
02:18:17.660 Yeah
02:18:17.920 It's
02:18:18.140 Also
02:18:18.300 Known
02:18:18.520 As
02:18:18.700 Price's
02:18:19.160 Law
02:18:19.420 Yeah
02:18:19.820 Yeah
02:18:22.300 Yeah
02:18:25.020 Yeah
02:18:27.380 Yeah
02:18:27.680 Great
02:18:27.720 Yeah
02:18:28.240 Yeah
02:18:37.280 Yeah
02:18:38.240 Yeah
02:18:39.060 Yeah
02:18:40.940 That means that there's only 20 people in this room
02:18:44.460 Okay, so who are going to be
02:18:46.620 I guess candidates
02:18:47.940 Accomplishing, I guess, the goal
02:18:50.820 Of being the next Jordan Peterson
02:18:52.900 Hopefully there's fewer of them than that
02:18:56.520 Okay, two things
02:19:01.360 The first is, it isn't obvious
02:19:03.720 What the population would be
02:19:06.280 That you would compare this population to
02:19:09.340 Right, because you could say
02:19:10.880 Well, the boundary is the 400 people in this room
02:19:13.000 But it isn't necessarily the case
02:19:14.380 The 400 people in this room might be
02:19:16.120 The square root of the broader population
02:19:19.320 Who are interested in this sort of thing
02:19:20.480 But with the Pareto distribution
02:19:22.060 What you also see is that it's
02:19:24.080 It's self-similar
02:19:25.520 And so
02:19:26.560 Let's say there's 400 people doing something
02:19:31.260 20 of them are doing half the work
02:19:32.680 But if you take those 20
02:19:34.360 Four of them are doing half the work of the 20
02:19:36.840 And one of the four is doing half the work of the four
02:19:39.160 And so
02:19:40.400 It
02:19:41.800 So why am I telling you that
02:19:45.040 It's
02:19:45.780 It isn't
02:19:47.320 Well, first of all
02:19:48.540 It isn't that there isn't useful work to be done
02:19:50.620 At multiple slices of the Pareto distribution
02:19:54.320 But the other thing is
02:19:55.300 It's also the case that there's not only one Pareto distribution
02:19:58.140 Right, because you might say
02:20:00.120 Well, if it's just the square root of the number of people in a domain
02:20:02.940 That are doing half the work
02:20:04.000 Then, you know, what do you do with the rest of the people
02:20:05.880 And the answer to that might be
02:20:07.100 Well, they're in a Pareto
02:20:08.420 A different Pareto distribution as well
02:20:10.660 Where they're doing something productive
02:20:12.280 So
02:20:13.240 Well, I think
02:20:23.000 It's a good question
02:20:24.080 Like, we don't exactly
02:20:25.380 So the basic rule is
02:20:27.140 Look, the basic rule is
02:20:28.560 For example
02:20:29.060 If you take 100 scientists in a given domain
02:20:32.040 10 of them will have published half the papers
02:20:34.140 And this works with everything
02:20:36.820 It works with every creative domain
02:20:38.780 The rule applies
02:20:39.700 So
02:20:40.700 Now the question is
02:20:42.040 Why?
02:20:42.400 And I think the answer to that
02:20:43.960 Seems to be
02:20:44.460 And I've watched people
02:20:45.380 Who've become spectacularly successful
02:20:47.180 And what happens is
02:20:48.080 That
02:20:48.300 Zero is a really bad place to be
02:20:52.100 Right?
02:20:52.880 It's really hard to get out of zero
02:20:55.060 And that's often why people are trapped in poverty
02:20:57.700 Because if you have nothing
02:20:59.680 Getting to something is virtually impossible
02:21:02.400 Once you have something
02:21:03.740 Getting to a little more of something
02:21:05.100 Is actually quite a bit easier
02:21:06.380 And so
02:21:07.320 What seems to happen
02:21:10.400 This is also called the Matthew principle
02:21:13.080 Right?
02:21:14.040 It's the same principle
02:21:15.020 So that's a New Testament
02:21:16.020 Citation
02:21:17.720 Let's say
02:21:18.400 The Matthew principle is
02:21:20.280 To those who have everything
02:21:22.300 More will be given
02:21:23.180 From those who have nothing
02:21:25.740 Everything will be taken
02:21:27.020 That's another one of those lines
02:21:28.480 In the New Testament
02:21:29.160 That you'd think that a good editor
02:21:30.460 Would have just got rid of
02:21:31.500 So
02:21:32.180 But I think what it is
02:21:33.960 Is that
02:21:34.280 Every time you make a step forward
02:21:36.460 The probability
02:21:38.000 That you'll be able to take
02:21:38.900 The next step forward
02:21:39.760 Increases
02:21:40.320 And it seems to increase
02:21:41.520 In a non-linear way
02:21:42.540 So the
02:21:43.340 The world that
02:21:44.940 The Matthew principle describes
02:21:47.140 Is non-linear
02:21:48.020 You know
02:21:48.540 So you might say
02:21:49.120 Well
02:21:49.320 What's your trajectory
02:21:50.540 If you're moving upward?
02:21:52.000 Well it's not this
02:21:53.000 It's this
02:21:54.260 You fall
02:22:02.160 You fall
02:22:02.820 You plummet
02:22:03.780 You rise
02:22:05.480 You rise
02:22:06.120 You transcend
02:22:07.380 It's something like that
02:22:08.540 And you might say
02:22:09.100 Well that's a hell of a world
02:22:10.140 But whatever
02:22:11.360 It has to be run by some principle
02:22:13.080 And that's the principle
02:22:14.140 That it appears to be run by
02:22:15.420 Do you identify yourself
02:22:16.960 As a pragmatist
02:22:17.880 Yes
02:22:19.280 Does that mean that like
02:22:20.720 Just do whatever works
02:22:22.660 Without regard to
02:22:23.680 No
02:22:24.920 No, no, no
02:22:25.580 It doesn't mean that at all
02:22:26.580 What it means is that
02:22:28.040 Every truth claim you make
02:22:30.460 Including those that are implicit
02:22:32.460 In your actions
02:22:33.600 Carries with it an ethic
02:22:35.580 That justifies
02:22:37.400 Or doesn't justify the action
02:22:39.180 So for example
02:22:40.480 Let's say I have a tool
02:22:41.780 And I say it's an axe
02:22:43.800 And I go out in the forest
02:22:45.620 And I cut down
02:22:46.400 I try to cut down a tree with it
02:22:47.780 And it doesn't work
02:22:48.820 It's not an axe
02:22:50.780 It's something else
02:22:52.240 And so what the
02:22:53.080 There's a good book
02:22:54.480 On pragmatism called
02:22:55.740 The Metaphysical Club
02:22:57.940 A History of American Ideas
02:22:59.360 It's one I would really recommend
02:23:00.580 And what the pragmatists
02:23:01.940 I can't give you a full answer
02:23:03.360 Because this is such a complicated issue
02:23:04.880 But what the pragmatists
02:23:06.400 Were wrestling with
02:23:07.320 Back in the late 1800s
02:23:09.820 The late 1800s
02:23:11.440 This was William James
02:23:12.520 And his crew in Boston
02:23:14.380 Including a philosopher
02:23:16.700 Named C.S. Peirce
02:23:17.740 Who was perhaps
02:23:18.340 America's greatest philosopher
02:23:19.700 They were wrestling
02:23:21.920 With the same issue
02:23:22.720 That the postmodernists
02:23:23.660 Would wrestle with
02:23:24.340 A hundred years later
02:23:25.280 Which is
02:23:26.080 Things are indefinitely complex
02:23:29.480 And we're not very bright
02:23:30.580 So how is it
02:23:31.840 That we can make claims
02:23:32.900 To truth about anything
02:23:34.520 And what they were
02:23:36.120 What their hypothesis
02:23:37.800 Essentially was
02:23:38.720 Is that
02:23:39.040 With every action
02:23:40.220 And with every truth claim
02:23:41.300 You simultaneously
02:23:42.300 Demarcate a territory
02:23:43.920 Within which that
02:23:44.940 Claim is valid
02:23:46.080 And you determine
02:23:48.440 Whether the claim is valid
02:23:49.520 By noting whether
02:23:50.560 Your prediction
02:23:51.340 About the outcome
02:23:52.340 Of your action
02:23:53.160 Or your belief
02:23:54.700 Is commensurate
02:23:55.900 Is in keeping with
02:23:57.480 If the outcome
02:23:59.840 Is in keeping with
02:24:01.180 The prediction
02:24:01.800 Then what you've said
02:24:03.460 Or done
02:24:04.080 Is true
02:24:04.780 Or good enough
02:24:05.920 And that's as good
02:24:07.280 And that's as good as
02:24:07.420 You get
02:24:07.780 And so that's
02:24:09.020 The pragmatic perspective
02:24:10.080 And then
02:24:10.520 When
02:24:11.120 When the pragmatists
02:24:13.080 Encountered Charles Darwin's
02:24:15.160 Works
02:24:15.580 Works
02:24:16.240 They immediately recognized
02:24:18.100 That Darwin had generated
02:24:19.720 A pragmatic solution
02:24:20.940 To the problem
02:24:21.740 Of the impossibility
02:24:22.800 Of being
02:24:23.380 The impossibility
02:24:24.820 Of being
02:24:25.180 Is this
02:24:25.720 There's way
02:24:26.780 More cosmos
02:24:27.840 Than there is
02:24:28.580 You
02:24:29.100 You are going to die
02:24:30.900 You cannot generate
02:24:31.980 A sufficient
02:24:32.640 Solution
02:24:33.880 To the problem
02:24:34.620 Of your being
02:24:35.360 No one can
02:24:37.140 Nothing can
02:24:38.040 It's like
02:24:38.740 The environment
02:24:39.640 Is a snake
02:24:40.360 That moves
02:24:40.980 Unpredictably
02:24:41.680 Across time
02:24:42.300 And you're trying
02:24:42.740 To stay on its back
02:24:43.680 Well how does
02:24:45.040 The Darwinian process
02:24:46.140 Deal with that
02:24:47.120 It produces
02:24:47.900 Infinite variants
02:24:48.920 Roughly speaking
02:24:50.480 Almost all of which
02:24:52.080 Die
02:24:52.620 And that's how
02:24:54.180 It solves the problem
02:24:54.880 Across time
02:24:55.560 And the things
02:24:56.560 That exist
02:24:57.180 The things
02:24:57.940 That stay alive
02:24:58.820 Are true enough
02:25:00.260 And that's the best
02:25:01.740 You get
02:25:02.040 That's the argument
02:25:02.640 I was trying to have
02:25:03.260 With Sam Harris
02:25:04.020 Because Harris
02:25:04.880 Doesn't take
02:25:05.400 His evolutionary
02:25:05.980 Theory
02:25:07.400 Seriously enough
02:25:08.300 But we kept
02:25:09.540 Getting bogged down
02:25:10.560 Anyways
02:25:11.400 That's
02:25:11.880 That's the best
02:25:13.120 Answer
02:25:13.480 I'd like to
02:25:16.880 Agree with that
02:25:17.440 But it's not true
02:25:18.300 Yeah
02:25:22.760 Yeah
02:25:25.340 Yeah
02:25:26.840 You really
02:25:40.120 Do like to ask
02:25:40.940 Hard questions
02:25:41.660 Don't you
02:25:42.100 I think it depends
02:25:44.460 See this is also
02:25:45.720 Why I like
02:25:46.220 The Piagetian take
02:25:47.700 Let's say
02:25:48.120 On pragmatism
02:25:49.280 Because
02:25:49.560 I think that
02:25:50.800 Pragmatism as a philosophy
02:25:52.440 Has the
02:25:53.220 Limitation
02:25:54.380 That you just described
02:25:55.460 But only if you think
02:25:57.300 About the games
02:25:57.880 As limited
02:25:58.440 If you have to
02:25:59.960 Play the game
02:26:00.480 In an iterative way
02:26:01.680 Then
02:26:02.400 That issue
02:26:03.360 Resolves itself
02:26:04.480 And the game theorists
02:26:05.620 Have done a good job
02:26:06.380 Of mapping that out
02:26:07.240 It's like
02:26:07.900 You could say
02:26:09.240 Let's say
02:26:09.720 Pragmatically speaking
02:26:10.860 There's no reason
02:26:11.480 I shouldn't deceive you
02:26:12.460 Once if I can get
02:26:13.120 What I want
02:26:13.680 It's yeah
02:26:14.740 Yeah
02:26:15.140 Except that
02:26:16.020 I'm probably not only
02:26:17.040 Going to interact
02:26:17.780 With you once
02:26:18.640 I'm going to interact
02:26:19.700 With you a lot
02:26:20.300 And even if it isn't
02:26:21.100 You that I interact with
02:26:22.500 It's going to be a bunch
02:26:23.460 Of beings that are
02:26:24.160 So much like you
02:26:24.940 That it might as well
02:26:25.680 Be you
02:26:26.260 Might as well be you
02:26:27.400 It's going to be me
02:26:28.920 If nothing else
02:26:29.840 And so
02:26:30.240 The pragmatic game
02:26:32.320 Stretched across time
02:26:33.740 Would include
02:26:34.740 The necessity
02:26:35.660 Of iterability
02:26:36.540 In relationship
02:26:38.300 To the validations
02:26:39.580 Of the truth claims
02:26:40.780 That's
02:26:41.360 That's how it looks
02:26:42.780 To me
02:26:43.160 I'm going to
02:26:46.100 I'm going to
02:26:46.900 I'm going to
02:26:48.500 Stop you
02:26:49.140 If
02:26:50.360 Say that again
02:26:51.280 You've denied
02:26:52.220 On several occasions
02:26:53.180 That you're not
02:26:53.700 A rhetorician
02:26:54.360 Yes
02:26:54.780 Yes
02:26:57.780 Thank you
02:26:59.460 Yes but that's
02:27:01.840 Not all I am
02:27:02.740 So this is on
02:27:12.080 Behalf of somebody
02:27:12.840 Dr. Peterson
02:27:14.060 Having listened
02:27:14.700 To your expositions
02:27:15.540 On the mythological
02:27:16.520 Evolution and
02:27:17.260 Amalgamation of religion
02:27:18.260 And keeping in mind
02:27:19.640 Your working definitions
02:27:20.800 Of belief and truth
02:27:22.120 And despite the obvious
02:27:23.560 Reasons for somebody
02:27:24.580 Of your background
02:27:25.160 To identify most
02:27:26.460 With Christianity
02:27:27.080 My understanding is
02:27:28.340 That you believe
02:27:29.280 Christianity to be
02:27:30.240 The most complete
02:27:30.880 And articulated form
02:27:31.960 Of many of the
02:27:32.980 Metaphysical ideas
02:27:33.820 That preceded it
02:27:35.000 And led up to that
02:27:35.660 Keeping that in mind
02:27:37.200 Would it also be accurate
02:27:38.200 To therefore say
02:27:38.980 That you're not only
02:27:39.660 A believer in Christianity
02:27:41.060 But also
02:27:41.860 If to a lesser degree
02:27:43.920 Also believer in
02:27:45.140 In Marduk
02:27:46.100 In the ancient Egyptian gods
02:27:47.560 And the subsequent gods
02:27:48.720 That you've spoken of here
02:27:49.640 That led up and
02:27:50.800 Contributed to the
02:27:51.520 Form of Christianity
02:27:52.180 That you're discussing
02:27:53.600 And that you identify with
02:27:55.040 Okay I gotta take that
02:27:57.640 One apart a little bit
02:27:58.600 I'm bounded in my
02:28:02.080 Judgment with regards
02:28:03.060 To Christianity
02:28:03.760 By my ignorance
02:28:04.740 I'm no student of Hinduism
02:28:08.340 So I can't make the claim
02:28:12.600 Forthrightly
02:28:14.080 That there's something
02:28:15.180 Intrinsically superior
02:28:16.440 To the Judeo-Christian tradition
02:28:18.700 Because I don't know enough
02:28:20.700 To make that claim
02:28:21.580 The claim I can make
02:28:23.820 Is that there's something
02:28:24.720 That's dreadfully right
02:28:26.700 About the core elements
02:28:28.080 Of the Judeo-Christian tradition
02:28:29.480 And I've seen analogs to that
02:28:31.480 Like one of the things
02:28:32.180 I'd like to do for example
02:28:33.320 Is to do a short series
02:28:36.360 On the Tao Te Ching
02:28:37.300 Because that is one
02:28:38.900 Remarkable document
02:28:40.160 Once you know
02:28:41.120 Especially
02:28:41.560 You might want to read it
02:28:43.000 You can go online
02:28:43.720 And read it
02:28:44.120 It's very short
02:28:44.700 Tao Te Ching
02:28:45.520 T-A-O-T-E-H
02:28:48.120 C-H-I-N-G
02:28:49.960 And it's the fundamental
02:28:51.220 Text of Taoism
02:28:52.160 And once you know
02:28:53.180 That the world of being
02:28:55.020 Is made of chaos and order
02:28:56.720 And you know
02:28:57.660 That that's represented
02:28:58.540 By the yin and the yang
02:28:59.660 All of a sudden
02:29:00.360 You can understand
02:29:01.000 The Tao Te Ching
02:29:01.660 And it's just
02:29:02.380 It's brilliantly
02:29:03.980 Simple and straightforward
02:29:06.320 In its exposition
02:29:07.560 But it also seems to me
02:29:08.880 To be entirely commensurate
02:29:10.160 With the line of
02:29:11.120 Let's call it logic
02:29:13.540 It's more like
02:29:14.340 The mode of description
02:29:16.480 Of being that's
02:29:17.700 Encapsulated in these stories
02:29:19.140 Now with regards
02:29:20.400 To being a believer
02:29:21.060 People ask me all the time
02:29:22.320 Two things
02:29:22.900 Do you believe in God
02:29:24.220 And are you a Christian
02:29:25.360 And the answer to that
02:29:26.480 Both of those
02:29:27.040 Is actually
02:29:27.560 There's two answers
02:29:28.440 One is
02:29:28.840 What the hell makes you think
02:29:30.120 It's any of your business
02:29:31.120 That's the first answer
02:29:32.720 And the second is
02:29:33.740 Why do you think
02:29:35.600 That you mean the same thing
02:29:36.920 With those questions
02:29:37.740 That I would mean
02:29:38.440 With my answer
02:29:39.220 So you know
02:29:40.600 Because it's such a funny thing
02:29:42.740 Because I've spent
02:29:43.900 Like three
02:29:44.420 And this is no accusation
02:29:46.180 With regards to your questions
02:29:47.340 In the least
02:29:47.940 I think it's more about
02:29:48.900 Trying to track
02:29:49.500 The development
02:29:50.020 Of these ideas
02:29:51.020 And you know
02:29:51.400 The residual truth
02:29:52.300 And psychological significance
02:29:54.520 Of all these other traditions
02:29:55.860 Well you know
02:29:56.960 I've been floored
02:30:00.400 By other mythological structures
02:30:03.180 Like when I first understood
02:30:05.220 Or thought I understood
02:30:06.520 The meaning of
02:30:07.860 The Mesopotamian creation myth
02:30:09.560 It's just
02:30:09.900 I've never recovered from that
02:30:12.180 I would say
02:30:12.740 And the same thing is true
02:30:14.180 Of the investigations
02:30:15.640 I did into the Egyptian
02:30:16.760 Myths of
02:30:17.760 Horus and Isis
02:30:18.900 And Osiris and Seth
02:30:20.560 It's just
02:30:21.040 They
02:30:21.660 And they're
02:30:23.120 They're so relevant
02:30:24.140 I mean
02:30:24.500 They're so unbelievably relevant
02:30:26.380 And how do
02:30:27.520 How do
02:30:29.160 See this is a problem
02:30:30.220 That none of us
02:30:30.960 Really know how to
02:30:31.620 How to solve
02:30:32.700 It's like
02:30:33.180 There are sources of wisdom
02:30:34.620 All over the world
02:30:35.520 Let's say
02:30:36.280 And
02:30:37.480 They need to be made
02:30:38.800 Commensurate with one another
02:30:40.180 Which isn't to say
02:30:41.620 That they need to be
02:30:42.400 Turned into a fast food
02:30:43.660 Mall
02:30:45.020 You know
02:30:45.480 That's like
02:30:46.140 Multiculturalism
02:30:47.080 Right
02:30:47.260 It's like
02:30:47.680 All the
02:30:48.600 Food of the world
02:30:49.800 Served in the most
02:30:51.040 Terrible possible manner
02:30:52.300 All in one place
02:30:53.460 It's something like that
02:30:54.600 And you don't want to do that
02:30:55.620 With comparative religion
02:30:56.660 It's just water everything down
02:30:58.600 And say
02:30:58.980 Well it's all nice
02:30:59.880 It's like
02:31:00.220 No it is not nice
02:31:01.300 Yeah
02:31:02.180 Or that it's all the same
02:31:03.200 Because it's not all the same
02:31:04.420 So
02:31:05.420 The
02:31:06.000 The job of
02:31:07.200 Communicating
02:31:09.040 Between those
02:31:09.820 Domains of wisdom
02:31:11.260 Is really
02:31:12.020 Continuing
02:31:13.080 Right
02:31:13.400 It's been a problem
02:31:13.980 Ever since the beginning
02:31:14.700 Of civilization
02:31:15.660 But
02:31:16.380 It's continuing
02:31:17.500 And I would say
02:31:18.060 The psychoanalyst
02:31:18.840 Jung in particular
02:31:19.780 Was
02:31:20.300 Took huge
02:31:21.800 Huge steps
02:31:22.740 In the direction
02:31:24.460 Of doing that
02:31:25.660 In an extraordinarily
02:31:26.340 Positive way
02:31:27.200 And not a simple
02:31:28.280 Minded way at all
02:31:29.140 And not
02:31:29.720 Just hand waving
02:31:30.760 That oh well
02:31:31.300 It's everyone
02:31:31.940 Has won
02:31:33.080 And all shall have prizes
02:31:34.300 Not that
02:31:35.380 So yeah
02:31:36.500 Last question
02:31:43.460 Actually it's kind of
02:31:46.080 In the same vein
02:31:46.820 But it's in regards
02:31:47.580 To another kind of
02:31:48.760 Mythology
02:31:49.200 So in terms of
02:31:50.720 I guess
02:31:51.300 Carl Jung's own
02:31:52.500 Mythos
02:31:53.280 Sorry I'm extremely tall
02:31:54.400 But a lot of the
02:31:56.400 I actually got found
02:31:58.200 Some kind of archetypes
02:31:59.460 Like for example
02:32:00.740 In my own life
02:32:01.520 But also I've noticed
02:32:02.460 In European life
02:32:03.480 So for example
02:32:04.800 So for example
02:32:04.820 In regards to
02:32:06.040 Odin
02:32:06.620 And Norse mythology
02:32:07.860 Yeah
02:32:08.140 With Carl Jung's essay
02:32:09.940 I've only been able
02:32:11.560 To actually skim it
02:32:12.320 Because I've been
02:32:13.000 Like trying to find
02:32:13.880 Something
02:32:14.320 Because it felt like
02:32:15.140 There's always this
02:32:15.780 Kind of psyche
02:32:16.840 That was almost
02:32:17.400 Underneath
02:32:18.000 I guess
02:32:19.180 Western civilization
02:32:20.200 And we see it
02:32:21.920 Really like
02:32:22.540 Embodied
02:32:23.200 In this specific
02:32:24.420 Figure
02:32:24.760 This deity
02:32:25.320 The wanderer
02:32:26.180 The knowledge
02:32:27.320 Gatherer
02:32:28.280 The seeker
02:32:28.920 But he's also
02:32:29.920 A war god
02:32:30.680 He's
02:32:30.960 All these different
02:32:32.260 Aspects that are
02:32:33.060 An accumulation
02:32:33.640 Of what seems
02:32:34.680 To be
02:32:35.240 Something that's
02:32:36.500 Distinctly
02:32:37.140 Western
02:32:37.700 And I feel
02:32:39.200 This is like
02:32:39.900 Almost like
02:32:40.560 The symbol
02:32:41.400 In a way
02:32:42.520 Of course
02:32:43.160 It's not
02:32:43.600 Always positive
02:32:44.360 There seems
02:32:45.260 To be something
02:32:46.020 Maybe
02:32:46.980 There seems
02:32:47.500 To be something
02:32:48.180 I do think
02:32:49.340 That the idea
02:32:50.260 Of the individual
02:32:51.380 Has been articulated
02:32:53.020 Most fully
02:32:53.800 In the west
02:32:54.340 I don't think
02:32:55.300 That's really a
02:32:56.280 I don't think
02:32:57.300 That's a
02:32:57.940 Contentious claim
02:32:59.120 Actually
02:32:59.600 That doesn't mean
02:33:02.140 That the latent
02:33:03.120 Structures
02:33:04.320 From which that idea
02:33:05.300 Might emerge
02:33:06.100 Weren't
02:33:06.760 To also many
02:33:07.680 Other places
02:33:08.280 Simultaneously
02:33:09.100 And the other
02:33:10.080 Thing from
02:33:10.540 Let's say
02:33:11.160 From a biological
02:33:11.920 Perspective
02:33:12.660 Is that we're
02:33:13.080 Only talking
02:33:13.600 About differences
02:33:14.300 Of a few
02:33:14.820 Hundred years
02:33:15.520 In terms of
02:33:16.620 The manifestation
02:33:17.340 Of these ideas
02:33:18.260 Right
02:33:18.520 From an evolutionary
02:33:19.860 Perspective
02:33:20.580 That's
02:33:20.940 It's instantaneous
02:33:22.020 It's like
02:33:22.820 Well a new idea
02:33:23.680 Has to arise
02:33:24.380 Somewhere
02:33:24.860 So it's going
02:33:25.620 To be somewhere
02:33:26.240 First
02:33:26.880 But it's spreading
02:33:28.600 I mean
02:33:29.000 Christianity for example
02:33:30.140 Spread so rapidly
02:33:31.000 That it's absolutely
02:33:31.800 Beyond belief
02:33:32.520 And it's actually
02:33:33.240 Spreading more rapidly
02:33:34.120 In China now
02:33:34.800 Than it did
02:33:35.260 In ancient Rome
02:33:35.980 So
02:33:36.820 Well in regards
02:33:37.980 To that
02:33:38.400 It's also been
02:33:39.260 Seemed like
02:33:39.800 Almost in the wake
02:33:41.320 Of a dying
02:33:41.880 Christianity
02:33:42.460 I've noticed that
02:33:43.300 Like there's been
02:33:43.940 A tendency
02:33:44.480 To go towards
02:33:45.600 I guess
02:33:46.160 Paganism
02:33:46.800 Right
02:33:47.020 Yes
02:33:47.820 I understand
02:33:48.600 That like
02:33:48.940 Some people
02:33:49.380 Laugh it off
02:33:50.180 Yes
02:33:50.900 So you have
02:33:51.360 Wicca
02:33:51.980 Which was
02:33:52.600 Mainly
02:33:53.000 A manifestation
02:33:53.780 Of Alistair Crowley
02:33:55.100 And his works
02:33:55.820 Which were then
02:33:56.780 Pended off to
02:33:57.540 Whoever actually
02:33:58.140 Made the actual
02:33:58.940 Ideology
02:34:00.000 And then
02:34:00.880 Next thing you know
02:34:01.780 We're finding
02:34:02.900 Something almost
02:34:03.560 More stable
02:34:04.260 In I guess
02:34:05.400 Norse mythology
02:34:06.180 And it seems
02:34:07.040 And it seems like
02:34:07.260 It's acting
02:34:07.780 Almost as a
02:34:08.560 Pendulum swing
02:34:09.600 From something
02:34:11.260 That
02:34:11.540 Well people
02:34:12.720 Are
02:34:12.940 Like the thing
02:34:14.060 Is when
02:34:14.580 When one
02:34:15.020 When one
02:34:15.540 Mythological structure
02:34:16.540 Collapses
02:34:17.400 It's going to
02:34:18.580 Collapse into
02:34:19.320 Another mythological
02:34:20.340 Structure
02:34:20.800 Or another set
02:34:21.600 Of mythological
02:34:22.300 Structures
02:34:22.780 And because
02:34:24.380 You can't
02:34:25.120 Get out
02:34:25.680 Of the
02:34:26.000 Mythological
02:34:26.500 Structures
02:34:26.980 There's no
02:34:27.400 Possible
02:34:27.740 Way of
02:34:28.060 Doing
02:34:28.240 That
02:34:28.520 What
02:34:29.140 And so
02:34:30.140 I wouldn't
02:34:30.780 Say necessarily
02:34:31.700 That the fact
02:34:32.580 That other
02:34:33.020 Belief systems
02:34:33.780 Emerge in the
02:34:34.720 Aftermath of
02:34:35.480 The collapse
02:34:36.040 Of the
02:34:36.340 Overarching
02:34:36.820 Belief system
02:34:37.400 I don't think
02:34:37.800 That that's
02:34:38.160 Necessarily
02:34:38.640 A bad
02:34:39.020 Idea
02:34:39.360 I think
02:34:40.140 That it
02:34:40.520 Has its
02:34:41.300 Attendant
02:34:41.920 Dangers
02:34:42.500 And so
02:34:43.720 I should
02:34:44.800 Stop
02:34:45.220 Because I'm
02:34:45.660 Starting to
02:34:46.080 Get tired
02:34:46.560 And I'm
02:34:46.940 Not going
02:34:47.460 To be able
02:34:47.800 To formulate
02:34:48.280 Any clearer
02:34:49.280 Answers
02:34:49.680 Than that
02:34:50.080 And it's
02:34:50.640 Also
02:34:50.840 Ten o'clock
02:34:51.480 So we
02:34:51.920 Also do
02:34:52.400 Have to
02:34:52.740 Stop
02:34:53.020 So thank
02:34:54.060 You
02:35:22.400 Some
02:35:22.880 Safe
02:35:23.700 Share
02:35:24.120 You
02:35:24.400 Have to