Luigi Mangione charged with murder in death of insurance CEO: Jordan Peterson on “perhaps the greatest idea ever revealed”
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🗓️ 10 December 2024
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Twenty-six-year-old Luigi Mangione was charged last night with murder for last week’s deadly shooting of an insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan. One reason it took so long to find the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin is that people celebrated the shooter as a quasi-folk hero. By contrast, as Jordan Peterson notes in his new book, the idea that we are made in God’s image is foundational to our society. If our value isn’t intrinsic, how then does society determine the individual value of a person? And what does God’s word say about it?
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Tuesday, December 10th, 24 edition of the Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:09.5 | I'm Chris Elkins. |
| 0:10.7 | Today's Daily Article is written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison. |
| 0:18.1 | 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was charged last night with the murder for last week's deadly shooting of an insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan. |
| 0:29.0 | The announcement came on the same day a private funeral was held for United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. |
| 0:36.8 | Why did it take so long to find the assassin? |
| 0:39.4 | One factor is that the authorities were contending with an outpouring of popular support for |
| 0:45.5 | the killer. |
| 0:46.1 | From social media to online forums to the streets of Manhattan, people celebrated the |
| 0:52.2 | shooter as a quasi-folk hero who struck a blow against the |
| 0:56.1 | nation's for-profit health care system. Several people on X suggested flooding the police with |
| 1:02.1 | fake tips or dressing like the killer to confuse law enforcement. Online sleuths who have worked |
| 1:08.0 | to solve crimes in the past withheld their services. A group even held |
| 1:12.7 | a look-alike contest Saturday in New York's Washington Square Park. Jordan Peterson is a cultural |
| 1:19.4 | phenomenon. The Canadian psychologist is a best-selling author whose YouTube videos, |
| 1:25.0 | podcasts, and speaking events have attracted millions of followers. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm currently reading his latest book, We Who Ressel with God, Perceptions of the Divine. |
| 1:35.2 | In it, he refers to the Genesis idea of man as an image of God. |
| 1:40.8 | Quote, in the absence of the divine proposition, where would we be? |
| 1:45.0 | How could the common men otherwise be credited with any a priori status whatsoever, |
| 1:51.3 | particularly in relation to those fully capable of enacting principle of might |
| 1:56.1 | that would otherwise definitely make right and often threatens to regardless. How could we possibly manage |
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