Heroic Adaptation | 'Maps of Meaning' Series | Episode 9 (WiM475)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

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4.8 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 138 minutes

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Summary

Luke de Wolf joins me for a multi-episode conversation exploring the book "Maps of Meaning" by Jordan Peterson. In this episode, we discuss how heroes must adapt along their journeys, individualism vs collectivism, the fine line between genius and lunacy, and how myth plays a central role in our development of culture. Luke de Wolf is the co-host of the Freedom Footprint Show.

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0:00.0	It's all a map for achieving the ultimate things in the world.
0:05.1	Like, peace on earth.
0:05.9	I mean, come on.
0:06.7	You'll never be this perfect meta hero.
0:09.3	But it's that template.
0:10.7	It's that North Star.
0:12.1	It's the ultimate role model, basically.
0:14.7	The funny thing about freedom is that the flip side of that coin is responsibility.
0:19.0	The failure is part of trial and error. It's right. They're in the damn words, right?
0:24.6	Such a focus on secularism, which is this profane world, is making it so that there's no connection with the sacred anymore.
0:31.6	And so it's like mythology is the process of making the collective unconscious, which is another union term, conscious.
0:39.4	It's the third mode of adaptation. It's the alternative to decadence and fascism.
0:43.7	Ignoring this stuff is at our own peril.
0:47.0	We are imitative creatures and we need role models. And it's not like a choice. It's not like,
0:53.7	oh, I can have one or not have one.
0:55.2	It's like, you're going to be imitating someone.
0:57.4	Actions of today are going to echo into eternity.
1:00.0	You know what I mean?
1:00.8	Like the myths of a thousand years from now are being written now.
1:06.0	Yeah.
1:06.3	What are you doing with your life?
1:07.6	That's what that says to me.
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