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"Organisms that have to cooperate and compete with other organisms of their type inevitably arrange themselves into hierarchies and that's been going on for so long (which is at least 300 million years) that our nervous systems have adapted to hierarchies as if they're a permanent element of being."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Aug 01, 2018

Quote taken from Rebel Wisdom - 'Jordan Peterson and the left, a new conversation?', with new interview with Jordan Peterson at 6:45.


"Organisms that have to cooperate and compete with other organisms of their type inevitably arrange themselves into hierarchies and that's been going on for so long (which is at least 300 million years) that our nervous systems have adapted to hierarchies as if they're a permanent element of being."

- Quote by Jordan Peterson

Date: Aug 01, 2018

Quote taken from Rebel Wisdom - 'Jordan Peterson and the left, a new conversation?', with new interview with Jordan Peterson at 6:45.


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