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Maps of Meaning — Preface, Descendus ad Inferos Jordan Peterson

Descending into the depths.

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Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing we cannot see is culture, in its intrapsychic or internal manifestation. The thing we do not understand is the chaos that gave rise to culture. If the structure of culture is disrupted, unwittingly, chaos returns. We will do anything-anything-to defend ourselves against that return.

Explicitness or implicitness is what we cannot see (culture) and what we cannot understand (chaos), namely existence, which together are the nonsense that is the mayhem.Everything is word. "Understanding" is the most acute of all the autocratic tomfoolery and magic trickery, thereby the bullshit archetype mythology, existence — in the establishment of existentialism as our incompleteness.

The tragic irony is that nonword, namely existence, is the error that is the chaos, and anything that implies existence or non-existence. Such implication (and all implication) is the error of action or agency that the error existence itself is.

But the rhetorical crime of politics in terms of such existence is that the structure of culture is something we cannot see, or what someone else has to see, or rather, sense for us, so as to be able to act in a different kind of chaotic synthesis from its own different perspective.

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Maps of Meaning The Architecture of Belief — Jordan Peterson

Chapter 1. Maps of Experience: Object and Meaning

Very short summary

The world can be validly construed as 1) object or 2) action, in

1. the theories and methods of science as a place of things or
2. the arts or humanities as a forum for meaningful action

Both domains must be used to form a complete picture of the world, which is only possible if they are clearly distinguished from each other.

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Maps of Meaning The Architecture of Belief — Jordan Peterson

Chapter 2. Maps of Meaning: Three Levels of Analysis

Very short summary

The three levels of analysis are the known, the unknown and moving forward (in time or space), i.e., learning and adapting in mediation between the known and unknown.

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The Drog is the ultimate Dragon, the ultimate chaos of the error Existence and knowledge about it.

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In Object-Oriented Ontology Jordan Peterson's Known and Unknown are both objects.

Object-Oriented Ontology A New Theory of Everything.

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