Welcome to Season 3, Episode 17 of the Jordan B Peterson Podcast.

I'm Westwood One Podcast Networks, Joey Salvia, and I help produce this series.

We're honored that you've subscribed and downloaded the Jordan B Peterson Podcast,

and we thank you for joining us for part 2 of these 2017 lectures based on the doctor's

book, Maps of Meaning, the Architecture of Belief.

This week, we present part 1 of a three-part lecture called Marianette's and Individuals.

A personal favorite Dr. Peterson theme of mine based on one of the all-time classic Disney

films, Penelchio.

And so, without further ado, Dr. Jordan B Peterson.

So I'm going to briefly review some of what I told you last time, and then I'm going to walk

through, as I mentioned, I'm going to walk through the Disney film, Penelchio, and which I presume

most of you have seen, how many of you have seen it?

Yeah, okay. So as I think I mentioned, that's something in and of itself, right?

I mean, the fact that you've all seen it means that it's a production of cultural significance,

and because it's such a strange artifact, that's one way of looking at it.

It might be worth trying to take it apart to understand why it is, for example,

that you even understand it. And so, I offered you the proposition last week that we view the

world essentially through a narrative lens, and I believe that we view the world through a

narrative lens because of the fundamental problem that we have to solve as living creatures

is how we should act in the world. And that means how we should act to maintain ourselves,

but also how we need to act in relationship to other people, and in relationship to the broader

world in order to maintain ourselves across time. So that's a complicated problem, right? It's not

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