# Beyond Order  ## Metadata - Author: [[Jordan B. Peterson]] - Full Title: Beyond Order - Category: #books ## Highlights - When you are visited by chaos and swallowed up; when nature curses you or someone you love with illness; or when tyranny rends asunder something of value that you have built, it is salutary to know the rest of the story. All of that misfortune is only the bitter half of the tale of existence, without taking note of the heroic element of redemption or the nobility of the human spirit requiring a certain responsibility to shoulder. We ignore that addition to the story at our peril, because life is so difficult that losing sight of the heroic part of existence could cost us everything. ([Location 192](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=192)) - Tags: [[pink]] - You have sources of strength upon which you can draw, and even though they may not work well, they may be enough. You have what you can learn if you can accept your error. ([Location 197](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=197)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Our knowledge of how to act in the world remains eternally incomplete—partly because of our profound ignorance of the vast unknown, partly because of our willful blindness, and partly because the world continues, in its entropic manner, to transform itself unexpectedly. ([Location 217](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=217)) - Tags: [[pink]] - It is this instinct of meaning—something far deeper than mere thought—that orients us properly in life, so that we do not become overwhelmed by what is beyond us, or equally dangerously, stultified and stunted by dated, too narrow, or too pridefully paraded systems of value and belief. ([Location 246](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=246)) - Tags: [[pink]] - people depend on constant communication with others to keep their minds organized. We all need to think to keep things straight, but we mostly think by talking. ([Location 303](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=303)) - Tags: [[pink]] - We need to talk about the past, so we can distinguish the trivial, overblown concerns that otherwise plague our thoughts from the experiences that are truly important. We need to talk about the nature of the present and our plans for the future, so we know where we are, where we are going, and why we are going there. We must submit the strategies and tactics we formulate to the judgments of others, to ensure their efficiency and resilience. We need to listen to ourselves as we talk, as well, so that we may organize our otherwise inchoate bodily reactions, motivations, and emotions into something articulate and organized, and dispense with those concerns that are exaggerated and irrational. We need to talk—both to remember and to forget. ([Location 304](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=304)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Why rely on our own limited resources to remember the road, or to orient ourselves in new territory, when we can rely on signs and guideposts placed there so effortfully by others? ([Location 324](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=324)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Freud and Jung, with their intense focus on the autonomous individual psyche, placed too little focus on the role of the community in the maintenance of personal mental health. ([Location 325](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=325)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Have they been educated to the level of their intellectual ability or ambition? Is their use of free time engaging, meaningful, and productive? Have they formulated solid and well-articulated plans for the future? Are they (and those they are close to) free of any serious physical health or economic problems? Do they have friends and a social life? A stable and satisfying intimate partnership? Close and functional familial relationships? A career—or, at least, a job—that is financially sufficient, stable and, if possible, a source of satisfaction and opportunity? ([Location 329](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=329)) - Tags: [[pink]] - People remain mentally healthy not merely because of the integrity of their own minds, but because they are constantly being reminded how to think, act, and speak by those around them. ([Location 335](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=335)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Compliance with those indications and reminders is, in large measure, sanity itself—and is something required from every one of us right from the early stages of our lives. Without the intermediation of the social world, it would be impossible for us to organize our minds, and we would simply be overwhelmed by the world. ([Location 350](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=350)) - Tags: [[pink]] - We compete for attention, personally, socially, and economically. No currency has a value that exceeds it. Children, adults, and societies wither on the vine in its absence. To have others attend to what you find important or interesting is to validate, first, the importance of what you are attending to, but second, and more crucially, to validate you as a respected center of conscious experience and contributor to the collective world. ([Location 360](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=360)) - Tags: [[pink]] - If you are not communicating about anything that engages other people, then the value of your communication—even the value of your very presence—risks falling to zero. ([Location 368](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=368)) - Tags: [[pink]] - the mere fact of naming something (and, of course, agreeing on the name) is an important part of the process whereby the infinitely complex world of phenomena and fact is reduced to the functional world of value. ([Location 380](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=380)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The internal hierarchy that translates facts into actions mirrors the external hierarchy of social organization. ([Location 450](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=450)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The best player is therefore not the winner of any given game but, among many other things, he or she who is invited by the largest number of others to play the most extensive series of games. ([Location 485](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=485)) - Tags: [[pink]] - It is useful to take your place at the bottom of a hierarchy. It can aid in the development of gratitude and humility. ([Location 493](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=493)) - Tags: [[pink]] - When you are tightly boxed in or cornered—all too often by your own stubborn and fixed adherence to some unconsciously worshipped assumptions—all there is to help you is what you have not yet learned. ([Location 498](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=498)) - Tags: [[pink]] - To be surrounded by peers is to exist in a state of equality, and to manifest the give-and-take necessary to maintain that equality. It is therefore good to be in the middle of a hierarchy. ([Location 554](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=554)) - Tags: [[pink]] - If the problem is real, then the people who are best at solving the problem at hand should rise to the top. That is not power. It is the authority that properly accompanies ability. ([Location 610](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=610)) - Tags: [[pink]] - A responsible person decides to make a problem his or her problem, and then works diligently—even ambitiously—for its solution, with other people, in the most efficient manner possible ([Location 614](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=614)) - Tags: [[pink]] - good people are ambitious (and diligent, honest, and focused along with it) instead because they are possessed by the desire to solve genuine, serious problems. ([Location 624](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=624)) - Tags: [[pink]] - power may accompany authority, and perhaps it must. However, and more important, genuine authority constrains the arbitrary exercise of power. ([Location 633](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=633)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Under normal conditions, it may be nonetheless said that the ability to conform unquestioningly trumps the inability to conform. However, the refusal to conform when the social surround has become pathological—incomplete, archaic, willfully blind, or corrupt—is something of even higher value, as is the capacity to offer creative, valid alternatives. ([Location 667](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=667)) - Tags: [[pink]] - What lurks, therefore, under the explicitly stated desire for complete freedom—as expressed, say, by the anarchist, or the nihilist—is not a positive desire, striving for enhanced creative expression, as in the romanticized caricature of the artist. It is instead a negative desire—a desire for the complete absence of responsibility, which is simply not commensurate with genuine freedom. This is the lie of objections to the rules. ([Location 758](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=758)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Every rule was once a creative act, breaking other rules. Every creative act, genuine in its creativity, is likely to transform itself, with time, into a useful rule. ([Location 914](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=914)) - Tags: [[pink]] - We all react judgmentally when a child or adult—or, indeed, a society—is acting improperly, unfairly, or badly. The error strikes us emotionally. We intuit that a pattern upon which individual and social adaptation depends has been disrupted and violated. We are annoyed, frustrated, hurt, or grief-stricken at the betrayal. This does not mean that each of us, reacting emotionally, has been successful at articulating a comprehensive philosophy of good and evil. We may never put our finger on what has gone wrong. However, like children unfamiliar with a new game but still able to play it, we know that the rules are being broken. ([Location 989](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=989)) - Tags: [[pink]] - In Rule I, we discussed the idea that the true winner of any game is the person who plays fair. This is because playing fair, despite the particularities of any given game, is a higher-order accomplishment than mere victory. Striving to play fair, in the ultimate sense—following the spirit of the rules, as well as the letter—is an indication of true personality development, predicated as it is on concern for true reciprocity. ([Location 1084](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1084)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Note: Life is a game. The first game we play is the game bounded by the law. But we are also part of another game in the game. This game is where we ignore the rules of the previous game in pursuit of what’s most valuable. The aim of the first game is to win while lawful, the second is to win while ethical per say. - Centuries ago, prior to the dawn of modern chemistry, the god Mercury represented what inspires or attracts interest involuntarily. He was the spirit who possessed a person when his or her attention was drawn irresistibly to some person, situation, or event. Imagine that there are very complex processes going on in your mind unconsciously, highlighting events of potential worth and distinguishing them from everything else constantly unfolding around you. ([Location 1093](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1093)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Note: Mercury being the spirit of interest. The conceptualization of being interested in something as a personality with a life of its own. - You do not choose what interests you. It chooses you. Something manifests itself out of the darkness as compelling, as worth living for; following that, something moves us further down the road, to the next meaningful manifestation—and so it goes, as we continue to seek, develop, grow, and thrive. ([Location 1113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1113)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Before the dawn of the scientific worldview, a mere six hundred years ago, reality was construed as all that which human beings experience. That which we experience can be distinguished, conceptually, from reality as objective world—pure physical being—by its more comprehensive contents, which include subjective experiences such as emotions, dreams, visions, and motivational states such as hunger, thirst, and pain. ([Location 1150](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1150)) - Tags: [[pink]] - we directly and naturally perceive reality as personified, and then must work very diligently to strip that personification away, so that we can detect “objective reality.”* ([Location 1164](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1164)) - Tags: [[pink]] - the careless demolition of tradition is the invitation to the (re)emergence of chaos. When ignorance destroys culture, monsters will emerge. ([Location 1185](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1185)) - Tags: [[pink]] - If and when the gods come to an agreement about their relative positions—more particularly, if they arrange themselves into a hierarchy—it means that peace has genuinely been established, because peace is the establishment of a shared hierarchy of divinity, of value. Thus, an eternal question emerges whenever people of different backgrounds are required to deal with one another on a relatively permanent basis: What do all gods share that makes them gods? What is God, in essence? ([Location 1203](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1203)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Most importantly, perhaps, it allows us to realize the immense importance of words in transforming potential into actuality, and helps us understand that the role we each play in that transformation is in some vital sense akin to the divine. ([Location 1220](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1220)) - Tags: [[pink]] - the hero is the embodied principle of action and perception that must rule over all the primordial psychological elements of lust, rage, hunger, thirst, terror, and joy. For chaos to remain effectively at bay (or, even better, tamed and therefore harnessed), this heroic principle must be regarded as the most important of all things that can organize and motivate mankind. ([Location 1237](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1237)) - Tags: [[pink]] - It is in this way that the spirit of Marduk still possesses each individual who engages courageously in the processes of encounter and confrontation that eternally create and renew society. ([Location 1240](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1240)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The cross, for its part, is the burden of life. It is a place of betrayal, torture, and death. It is therefore a fundamental symbol of mortal vulnerability. In the Christian drama, it is also the place where vulnerability is transcended, as a consequence of its acceptance. This voluntary acceptance is also equivalent to victory over the dragon, representation of chaos, death, and the unknown. By accepting life’s suffering, therefore, evil may be overcome. The alternative is hell, at least in its psychological form: rage, resentment, and the desire for revenge and destruction. ([Location 1249](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1249)) - Tags: [[pink]] - All these heroes act out what was perhaps the greatest discovery ever made by man’s primordial ancestors: if you have the vision and the courage (and a good stout stick, when necessary), you can chase away the worst of snakes. ([Location 1265](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1265)) - Tags: [[pink]] - As humanity became more sophisticated in its capacity to abstract, we increasingly appreciated the fact that predatory monsters can come in many guises, only some of which are animal in their form. ([Location 1271](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1271)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Turned to stone: What could that possibly mean? It certainly means to be unable to move—but it also signifies something deeper. It means to be hunted; to become a rabbit confronted by a wolf; to become the horrified and awestruck object of the predatory gaze. ([Location 1284](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1284)) - Tags: [[pink]] - After much searching, Harry gains entrance to this underworld labyrinth of pipes and tunnels, and finds the central chamber. He does this, significantly, through the sewer, acting out the ancient alchemical dictum, in sterquilinis invenitur: in filth it will be found.* What does this mean? That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look.* ([Location 1297](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1297)) - Tags: [[pink]] - He must incorporate his monstrousness, so that he can supersede his naive harmlessness, before he is tough enough to face the terrors that confront him. ([Location 1314](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1314)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Note: You have to have a dark side to perceive darkness. - At some point in our evolutionary and cultural history, we began to understand that human evil could rightly be considered the greatest of all snakes. So, the symbolic progression might be (1) snake as evil predator, then (2) external human enemy as snake/evil/predator, then (3) subjective, personal, or psychological darkness/vengefulness/deceit as snake/evil/predator. ([Location 1322](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1322)) - Tags: [[pink]] - A voluntary death-and-rebirth transformation—the change necessary to adapt when terrible things emerge—is therefore a solution to the potentially fatal rigidity of erroneous certainty, excessive order, and stultification. ([Location 1349](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1349)) - Tags: [[pink]] - When they imitate, they use their bodies to represent the bodies of others. But this imitation is not mindless, automatized mimicry. It is instead the ability to identify regularities or patterns in the behavior of other people, and then to imitate those patterns. ([Location 1352](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1352)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Note: We imitate by finding patterns and regularities - If a great and memorable act is one undertaken by a particularly admirable individual, a local hero, then the greatest and most memorable acts possible would be those undertaken by the spirit (embodied in part by particular individuals) who exemplified what all local heroes everywhere have in common. That hero of heroes—that meta-hero—would have to exist, logically, in turn, in a place that was common across all places requiring heroism. ([Location 1369](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1369)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Everyone requires a story to structure their perceptions and actions in what would otherwise be the overwhelming chaos of being. Every story requires a starting place that is not good enough and an ending place that is better. ([Location 1378](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1378)) - Tags: [[pink]] - In consequence, the actor of a given story (and, therefore, someone deeply affiliated with the plot and the characterization) still must bow to the spirit of creative transformation that originally created and may need to destroy and re-create that story. It is for this reason that spirit eternally transcends dogma, truth transcends presupposition, Marduk transcends the elder gods, creativity updates society, and Christ transcends the law (as does Harry Potter, along with his courageous but continually rule-breaking friends). But it is important to remember, as we discussed in Rule I: Those who break the rules ethically are those who have mastered them first and disciplined themselves to understand the necessity of those rules, and break them in keeping with the spirit rather than the letter of the law. ([Location 1383](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1383)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The soul willing to transform, as deeply as necessary, is the most effective enemy of the demonic serpents of ideology and totalitarianism, in their personal and social forms. The healthy, dynamic, and above all else truthful personality will admit to error. It will voluntarily shed—let die—outdated perceptions, thoughts, and habits, as impediments to its further success and growth. This is the soul that will let its old beliefs burn away, often painfully, so that it can live again, and move forward, renewed. This is also the soul that will transmit what it has learned during that process of death and rebirth, so that others can be reborn along with it. ([Location 1391](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1391)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Life is what repeats, and it is worth getting what repeats right. ([Location 1446](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1446)) - Tags: [[pink]] - It is difficult to win an argument, or even begin one, if you have not carefully articulated what you want (or do not) and need (or do not). ([Location 1466](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1466)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Freud catalogued an extensive list of phenomena akin to repression—the active rejection of potentially conscious psychological material from awareness—which he termed “defense mechanisms.” These include denial (“the truth is not so bad”), reaction formation (“I really, really, really love my mother”), displacement (“the boss yells at me, I yell at my wife, my wife yells at the baby, the baby bites the cat”), identification (“I am bullied, so I am motivated to be a bully”), rationalization (a self-serving explanation for a low-quality action), intellectualization (a favorite of the early, funny, neurotic Woody Allen), sublimation (“I can always paint nude women”), and projection (“I am not touchy; you are just annoying”). ([Location 1517](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1517)) - Tags: [[pink]] - The former problem—willful blindness—occurs when you could come to know something but cease exploring so that you fail to discover something that might cause you substantial discomfort. Spin doctors call this self-imposed ignorance “plausible deniability,” which is a phrase that indicates intellectualized rationalization of the most pathological order. ([Location 1530](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1530)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Every ideal is a judge, after all: the judge who says, “You are not manifesting your true potential.” No ideals? No judge. But the price paid for that is purposelessness. This is a high price. No purpose? Then, no positive emotion, as most of what drives us forward with hope intact is the experience of approaching something we deeply need and want. And worse, when we are without purpose: chronic, overwhelming anxiety, as focused purpose constrains what is otherwise likely to be the intolerable chaos of unexploited possibility and too much choice. ([Location 1614](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1614)) - Tags: [[pink]] - the archetypal Hero is born when things are at their worst. ([Location 1830](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1830)) - To look upon evil with eyes unshielded is dangerous beyond belief, regardless of how necessary it is to look. ([Location 1842](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1842)) - If you are going to take care of yourself, you are already burdened (or privileged) with a social responsibility. The you for whom you are caring is a community that exists across time. ([Location 1905](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=1905)) - The sovereign individual, awake and attending to his or her conscience, is the force that prevents the group, as the necessary structure guiding normative social relations, from becoming blind and deadly. ([Location 2197](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=2197)) - That which is valuable is pure, properly aligned, and glitters with light—and this is true for the person just as it is for the gem. ([Location 2584](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=2584)) - Spirit is the creative force that gives rise to what becomes dogma, with time. Spirit is also that which constantly transcends such time-honored tradition, when possible. ([Location 2801](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=2801)) - Christ therefore presents Himself as both the product of tradition, and the very thing that creates and transforms it. ([Location 2807](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=2807)) - Artists are the people who stand on the frontier of the transformation of the unknown into knowledge. They make their voluntary foray out into the unknown, and they take a piece of it and transform it into an image. ([Location 3006](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=3006)) - Art bears the same relationship to society that the dream bears to mental life. ([Location 3024](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=3024)) - It is a psychological truism that anything sufficiently threatening or harmful once encountered can never be forgotten if it has never been understood. ([Location 3221](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=3221)) - To some great degree, we are our assumptions. They structure the world for us. When basic axioms of faith are challenged (“People are basically good”), the foundation shakes and the walls crumble. ([Location 3677](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=3677)) - In a relationship where romance remains intact, truth must be king. ([Location 3788](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=3788)) - what is the superordinate principle to which both marital partners must bow? It is not illumination as mere verbal abstraction. It is not that they are only supposed to think and speak the truth. It is that they are supposed to act it out. And that is the ancient idea that the Word should be made flesh. ([Location 3815](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=3815)) - A marriage is a vow, and there is a reason for it. You announce jointly, publicly: “I am not going to leave you, in sickness or health, in poverty or wealth—and you are not going to leave me.” It is actually a threat: “We are not getting rid of each other, no matter what.” ([Location 3844](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=3844)) - There are three fundamental states of social being: tyranny (you do what I want), slavery (I do what you want), or negotiation. ([Location 3871](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=3871)) - if you are married to someone, you often see them at their worst, because you have to share the genuine difficulties of life with them. ([Location 3976](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=3976)) - “You will do, for now, and I presume you feel the same way about me. Otherwise we would just get married. But in the name of a common sense that neither of us possesses we are going to reserve the right to swap each other out for a better option at any point.” And if you do not think that is what living together means—as a fully articulated ethical statement—see if you can formulate something more plausible. ([Location 3991](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=3991)) - Romance is play, and play does not take place easily when problems of any sort arise. Play requires peace, and peace requires negotiation. And you are lucky even then if you get to play. ([Location 4132](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=4132)) - do not ever punish your partner for doing something you want them to continue doing. Particularly if it took some real courage—some real going above and beyond the call of duty—to manage. ([Location 4181](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=4181)) - “careful and unbiased pursuit of the truth will make the world a better place for all people, reducing suffering, extending life, and producing wealth.” ([Location 4273](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=4273)) - Note: The story which the pursuit of Science is nested in - If the map you are using is missing part of the world, you are going to be utterly unprepared when that absent element makes itself manifest. How is it possible for us to retain the advantages of simplification, without falling prey to the accompanying blindness? The answer is to be found in the constant dialogue between genuinely different types of people. ([Location 4608](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08NP6881K&location=4608))