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„People do not care whether or not they succeed; they care about whether or not they fail.“
„The eternal dragon is always giving our fallen down castles a rough time – always.“
„Evil – to exploit the knowledge of your own vulnerability by turning it on others’ vulnerability in order to bring more pain into the world.“
„Your values have to be hierarchically organized with something absolute at the top, because otherwise they do nothing but war. You have to organize your values hierarchically or else you stay confused. This is true if you’re an individual and it’s true if you’re a state. If you don’t know what the next thing you should do is, then there are fifty things you should do. Then, how are you doing to do any of them. You can’t. You have to prioritize. Something has to be above something else. It has to be arranged in a hierarchy for it not to be chaotic. So there is some principle at the top of the hierarchy.“
„It’s the ultimate chaos that generates partial chaos, but that chaos also is what revivifies life, because otherwise it would just be static.“
„If religion was the opium of the masses, then communism was the methamphetamine of the masses.“
„The Word that speaks Truth into Chaos at the beginning of time, to generate habitable order that is Good – that’s the story.“
„When you think that the ground of consciousness is the most complex thing we know of, then it’s not so unsophisticated to assume that the most complex thing that there might be is like that. Or at least that’s as good as we can do with our imaginations. I don’t think that’s unsophisticated.“
„You can’t make rules for the exceptional.“
„I’m not interested in abstraction for the sake of abstraction.“
„There are some games you don’t get to play unless you are all in.“
„[I’ve changed a bit here – see youtube video “Jordan Peterson – Are YOU Antisocial?!”] We have these shared frames of reference, like when we’re playing monopoly. Children at three learn to play games, which means that they learn to organize their own internal motivational states into a hierarchy that includes the emotional states of other people. And that means they can play. And that’s what everyone does when they’re out in the world. That’s why we can go about our daily business – we all know the rules. That’s why we can sit in the same room without fighting each other. Because you’re smart and socially conscious, you can walk into a room full of people and know what to do. If you’re civilized and social you can just do it, and you can predict what all the other primates are up to, and they won’t kill you. That’s what it means to be part of the same tribe. People are very peculiar creatures and God only knows what they’re up to. As long as they’re playing the same game that you are, you don’t have to know what they’re up to, and you can predict what they’re going to do because you understand their motivational states. And so, part of the building and constructing of higher order moral goals is the establishment of joint frames of reference that allow multiple people to pursue the goals that they’re interested in simultaneously. Not all shared frames of reference can manage that. There’s a small subset of them that are optimized so that not only can multiple people play them, but multiple people can play them, AND enjoy them, AND do it repeatedly across a long period of time. So it’s iterability that partly defines the utility of a higher order moral structure, and that is not arbitrary. It’s an emergent property of biological interactions. It’s not arbitrary at all, because a lot of what’s constraining your games is your motivational substructure and those ancient circuits that are status oriented, which operate within virtually every animal. Virtually every animal has a status counter. Creatures organize themselves into dominance hierarchies. The reason they do that is because that works. It’s a solution to the Darwinian problem of existence. It’s not just an epiphenomena. It’s the real thing. So your environment is fundamentally dominance hierarchy, plus God only knows where you are. And that’s order and chaos. And part of the reason people fight to preserve their dominance hierarchies is because it’s better to be a slave who knows what the hell is going on than someone who is thrown screaming and naked into the jungle at night. And that’s the difference between order and chaos. And we like order better than chaos and it’s no wonder. And invite a little chaos in for entertainment now and then, but it has to be done voluntarily, and generally you don’t want the kind of chaos that upsets your entire conceptual structure. You’re willing to fool around on the fringes a little bit, but you know, when the going gets serious you’re pretty much likely to bail out.“
„Evil is the force that believes its knowledge is complete.“
„Jung thought that Christianity had promised the cessation of suffering for 1,000 years, yet suffering went on unabated. At the same time, Christianity had put a lot of emphasis on spiritual development at the expense of material development.“
„Look at you people in here – what the hell is wrong with you? Nothing. So you could probably have what you want, if you could figure out what the hell it was and you diligently pursued it.“
„What’s better: to not be afraid or to know that you can handle being afraid?“
„When you tell a lie often enough, you become unable to distinguish it from the truth.“
„Morality, like politics, is the alternative to chaos and war.“
„Don’t sacrifice who you could be for who you are.“
„Some things are obvious. Well, why?“
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