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139. Maps of Meaning 11: The Flood and the Tower

Oct 04, 20204 hr 38 minEp 26Transcript available on Metacast
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In this lecture, Dr. Peterson continues his discussion of the archaic stories at the beginning of Genesis, including Cain and Abel, and the flood story of Noah (the return of chaos), and the story of the Tower of Babel (which he reads as a very old warning about the danger of erecting something akin to a totalitarian/utopian secular state -- that is pathological order).