Waking Up

"Imagine that you have capacity to live truthfully, courageously and forthrightly

Then imagine why you might not do that

And so what do you hide from?

Well you go home and sit on your bed for 5 minutes and ask yourself

"What you've hidden from in your life?"

Man, you'll have books of knowledge reveal themselves to you in your imagination

People woke up, they became self-conscious,

They recognized their own vulnerability,

And that made them hide from manifesting their divine destiny

So there's the snake, right?

And you're some tree-dwelling primate and the snake eats you

That sucks, so let's watch out for the damn snakes

And then your brain grows and you think

"Well, there's not just snakes there's where snakes live,

Why don't we just get the hell out of the tree and go hunt down

The snakes and get rid of them", and so those are sort of like potential snakes

You get rid of the external enemies, you build a big city, and all of a sudden

Theres enemies that pop up inside

Because the snake isn't just the snake in the garden

The snake isn't just the possible snake

The snake isn't just the snake that's your enemy

The snake is your friend because your friend can betray you

And then its even worse than that because you can betray you

And so even if you get rid of all the outside snakes

You have an inside snake

And God only knows what it's up to"

--Jordan Peterson