I'd like to welcome you to the episode 15 of the Symbolic World podcast.

In this episode, I'm going to play for you a video called On How We Dehumanize.

It is something that I posted on my YouTube channel about a year ago.

And in it, I look at how both extremes, we could call it, both of the political extremes end up using similar tactics

of dehumanizing. And in a certain manner, we all tend to do that one way or another. But I tried to show

how even those who accuse the others of dehumanizing end up doing it despite themselves

by using similar tactics.

And so I have to apologize for the audio.

I promise you that the audio will get better as these podcasts move forward as we get closer

to the time where I bought a better microphone.

And so, yeah, so enjoy.

This is Jonathan Peuge. Welcome to the symbolic world.

With a growing chaos around us, I thought, well, wondering what I could do.

And I thought maybe I could give the symbolic structure of how and why we dehumanize aspects of humanity.

So my hope in showing this pattern to you is that our capacity to dehumanize, to demonize, be seen for what it is.

Not a question of sides, not what our enemies do, but something which is a deep and integral part of what we could call, let's say, our fallen selves.

So the key to this, like the key to so much can be found in our stories.

And when looking for a pattern, it's always best to look to Genesis first

and then to move from there, to move towards Christ,

where usually the resolution to the pattern is found.

So I want to do this as another example of how this works, in general,

of how these patterns I keep talking about fit together,

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