I wonder how Peterson used to work as a clinical psychologist with his patients back in the day? Imagine a 15-minute session:
Elon Musk: Ah, doc, I have this sort of crisis of…
Jordan Peterson: Yes, you know that, because in, in, ah, in mythological representations you have 3 fundamental elements: you have something like order, which you could think about as Society, but it’s an… It’s the… It’s the prior axiomatic interpretive structure you have. Then you have the chaotic potential that’s the Tohu wa-Bohu that exists at the beginning of time. And so the way God is represented in the story of Genesis is that… So God is the prior interpretive process that gives rise to order as a consequence of manipulating potential and the intermediary factor is the word — that’s the Christian conception. And the word is something like… well… language. But it’s also something like the sacrificial gesture that’s necessary for learning, to take place, so you could imagine this when you learn something. It’s not only that you add to a storehouse that you have, it’s that something that you already know has to undergo a death and a transformation… But let’s continue during our next session.
Elon Musk: fumbling with his Amex Ultra Neodymium card.
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