This week, I provide an example to show why considering your place in the social hierarchy is motivational.
** Mondays of Meaning
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October 14th 2024 | Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
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In this week’s edition, I provide an example to show how meaning without language is possible and why considering your place in the social hierarchy is motivational. Then, I talk with international bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz about the manufactured polarity within the United States and the foreign powers manipulating American thought. From the archives, I revisit a lecture from several years ago in which I discuss initial steps to conceptualizing the world in which you live and why reality manifests itself to you.
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Motivate Yourself Through Meaning By Considering Your Place In The Social Hierarchy
You can think without language. Take the case of someone who is deaf and mute: They have no language, but they can operate in society. The postmodernists — with whom I do not align — make the proposition there is no meaning outside language. Though it is a powerful argument, it is seriously flawed. Meaning can work outside of language, and it is what language is grounded in. It is preverbal comprehension of the world. It is an embodied comprehension of the world. Animals have it; lobsters have it.
Lobsters have dominance hierarchies. They hardly have a nervous system at all, which is partly why they are studied quite extensively. They have a social structure, and they understand it. For example, if you were a lobster and got in a fight with another lobster and lost, you would remember that. The next time you saw that lobster, you would scuttle off somewhere else. You would know to do that. All the lobsters in an area know who is the top lobster and who is not. The top lobster gets the best place to habitate and the best food.
This dominance issue is a cultural issue and stems from the fact we live in a social environment. It is far deeper than people usually consider. But it is also worth considering.
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US The Story: Dismantling Partisan Propaganda | Gregg Hurwitz | EP 488
In this episode, I sit down with international bestselling author of the “Orphan X” series, Gregg Hurwitz. We discuss the manufactured polarity within the United States, how bad actors and foreign powers are manipulating American thought, the shocking number of data points most people agree on, and Gregg’s newest work, a short film called “Ask An Iranian: The Truth About the Middle East” which showcases true accounts of the terror administered by the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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** From The Archives
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What's The Best Way Of Being In The World?
In this segment from a lecture several years ago, I address the best way to be in the world so that you most effectively deal with threats. Apart from pain, that is the ultimate question. You do not want to live terrified or in danger, so humans work fervently to deal with anything of a threatening nature. To do this properly, you must know how to conceptualize threat, which involves sacrifice — the willingness to forego pleasure in the short term for the benefits in the long term. You must also conceptualize the world in which you live: reality. While science extracts out all the subjectivity so that all that remains is an array of objective facts of equivalent value, being is reality as it manifests itself to you as a living thing. The world in which you live is full of other people, motivation, and emotion — terror, pain, joy, frustration. That is the real world.
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