Welcome to episode 246 of the JBP podcast. I'm Michaela Peterson. This is part one of a new

compilation series on free speech. The episode begins with Dad's clip describing the trials

Pinocchio had to overcome to reach maturity followed by people like Brett Weinstein,

Julie Punnies, Arif Offmed, and a young me Park describing how they've all been affected by

free speech or censored speech in their own unique ways. I hope you enjoy this compilation.

We're going to show you something from Pinocchio. Now this is an initiation ritual.

It's a journey to the depths, so it's a journey to the underworld. It's the consequence of a

collapse in previous personality and the disintegration of that previous personality into a chaotic

state prior to rebirth. Now what happens in Pinocchio, which by the way was released at about the

same time that World War II was brewing, and which also contains one of the best representations

of the individual motivations for fascism that I've ever seen anywhere. That's the scenes that

are associated with Pleasure Island. Remember all the puppet is trying to become a real boy,

right? So he's a Marianette to begin with, something else is pulling his strings. Well, for

Jung, that's your habitual state of being. Something else is pulling your strings. Even the idea that

your autonomous is the consequence of something else pulling your strings. And for Jung,

what you needed to do was find out exactly who and what is pulling your strings and decide if

that's the direction in which you want to go. And that's really what happens to Pinocchio,

because we're going to watch Pinocchio part of it in the Pinocchio story. He starts out as a Marianette.

Now he's a Marianette made by a good father, because Japetta was a good father. He's a good craftsman

and so on. So he's a Marianette with a benevolent puppeteer. But as soon as he develops some autonomy,

then he becomes prey to forces that are elements of the demonic archetype. In fact, the worst bad guy

in the entire movie turns into Satan himself at one point in the movie. He basically has horns

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