Welcome to episode 250 of the JBP podcast. I'm Michaela Peterson.

This is part three of our series on free speech, a deep dive into the impact of restricting

freedom of speech. We'll be looking at what great thinkers like Nietzsche, Carl Jung,

and Jimny Cricket have had to say on the topic. Then towards the end of the episode,

we take a closer look at a concept that'll be the focus of the next and final episode in this

compilation series, what Dad calls the redemptive power of free speech. I hope you enjoyed today's

episode.

Okay, so what's happened there? Well, many, many things at multiple levels of reality simultaneously,

and that's the characteristic of an archetypal story. So on one level, Pinocchio's too old to go

home. He can't go home to his father because in some sense he's already transcended his father.

So there are things, for example, that your father can't help you with, and the reason for that is

that he doesn't know anymore about the situation than you do, and he can't. And so that's where his

knowledge limits out. So that would be sort of on the personal level, and then on the trans-personal

level, which would be the deeper archetypal level, what's happening to Pinocchio is exactly what

Nietzsche described at the end of the 19th century. Remember that Jepetto is his creator, and now he's

dead. He's gone. And so Pinocchio is bereft of placement, so to speak. His soul has been corrupted,

and he doesn't know what to do about it, and when he returns to his family home, or when he

returns to his tradition, what he finds is nothing. Okay, so then what happens? Well, this is

another thing that you'll swallow with just no problem whatsoever. Well, this dove comes along that

sort of golden and glowing, and drops a note right in front of him. Now, you may remember,

and perhaps you don't, but the star from which the dove comes is a representation of the Blue Fairy,

and the Blue Fairy is the positive element of the unknown in Pinocchio movie. And so what it basically

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