Welcome to the Jordan B. Peterson Podcast. This podcast is an amalgamation of the

first three episodes of Maps of Meaning, recorded by TV Onterian. You can

support these podcasts by donating the amount of your choice to Dr. Peterson's

Patreon account, which can be found by searching Jordan Peterson Patreon or by

finding the link in the description. Dr. Peterson's self-development programs

self-authoring can be found at self-authoring.com. One of the fundamental

thesis of this course is that in modern literature and in literature that

isn't so modern, there's the notion of a human created monster Frankenstein

right, springs to mind, and at an adequate time. I mean Frankenstein was a

fantasy, an unconscious fantasy, a dream in actuality about the potential

dangers of unbridled technological advancement, right? Well, Frankenstein

monsters face us daily. I mean, it's become a constant part of our

existence. Why is that? Well, maybe it's something like this, and this is

certainly a notion that Jung would agree with. If we don't develop a moral

sense as conscious and as elaborated as our technological sense, the fact that

we're capable of becoming increasingly powerful will necessarily do us in.

The bigger your weapons, the smarter you better be to control them. And so maybe

it is something like this, maybe, and this is a strict union notion. Maybe 500

years ago when we started to ratchet up the rate at which we were developing

our technological expertise and left our mythological and religious presuppositions

and conceptions behind as archaic and perhaps as predicated on superstition.

Maybe we need to spend as much time updating them and bringing them into the

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