I'd like to welcome you to the Symbolic World Podcast on this episode.

I will be playing for you a discussion I had regarding some of the strange ways that people

interpret symbolism and try to limit symbolism only to their historical contingency.

And so when they see a symbol, they try to associate it directly with the group or groups that they know who have used this and then have a strange way of wanting to join all the people that have used the same type of symbolism into one big mass.

And so what you get are kind of weird conspiracy theories where people go back in time, you know, and find all

this evil symbolism and then then come to tell you that, oh, the Catholic Church or the

Orthodox Church is evil because it uses the same symbolism. Anyways, that was the main point I was

trying to make and it was provoked by a video that I saw of someone who was criticizing Jordan Peterson and to be fair

After I made this video I felt I felt a little bad because I really don't like

Going after people especially people that aren't famous or people that aren't that you you know, that haven't weathered this kind of thing

before. And so I reached out to the person who had made that video. And I think we're on good terms.

I think it's fine. We had talked about him coming on the channel and then giving him a chance

to discuss his ideas. And sadly, it happened just before the flood and then everything got crazy after

that and I was never able to finally get to having them on the channel I think by now

it's probably too late to to do that anyway so nonetheless I think my main point

in this video is still sound in terms of a way of interpreting symbolism which I find

is limited and is not usually very helpful, especially if you want to understand how the world

works. So as you know, everything I'm doing here, the videos, the podcast, it's all thanks

to people's support. So if you like what I'm doing, you can go to the symbolic

world.com slash support and find ways to support the podcast. Supporters get early access to videos.

Some, you know, at certain tiers, you have the chance to ask questions in advance for my Q&A.

And ultimately, now I've started also making a free video a month for all the supporters interpreting traditional stories.

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