"Although he (Nietzsche) is generally regarded as an enemy of Christianity and superstition, and was certainly an unbelievably outspoken opponent of Christian traditionalism, he also knew that if you let the old Gods die, the probability that blood would flood the land was virtually 100%"

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Speaker:
Jordan B. Peterson
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Almost in F - Tranquillity by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Transcript (Partial):
In modern literature, and in literature that isn’t so modern, there’s this notion of a human-created monster. Frankenstein, springs to mind. And at an adequate time. I mean, Frankenstein was a fantasy. An unconscious fantasy. A dream, in actuality, about the potential dangers of unbridled technological advancement.

Why is that? Well maybe it’s something like this… and this is something that Jung would agree with. If we don’t develop a moral sense, as conscious and as elaborated as our technological sense, the fact that we’re increasingly capable of becoming increasingly powerful will necessarily do us in.

The bigger your weapons, the smarter you better be to control them. And so maybe it’s something like this… maybe, and this is a strict Jungian notion, maybe five hundred years ago when we started to ratchet up the rate at which we were developing our technological expertise, and left our mythological and religious presuppositions and conceptions behind as archaic and perhaps as predicated on superstition, maybe we need to spend as much time updating them and bringing them into the domain of clear consciousness and control as we have spent on developing our technological sense.
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Although he (Nietzsche) is generally regarded as an enemy of Christianity and superstition, and was certainly an unbelievably outspoken opponent of Christian traditionalism, he also knew that if you let the old Gods die, the probability that blood would flood the land was virtually 100%

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