Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion-and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings. (Jordan Peterson)

Behavior is imitated, then abstracted into play, formalized into drama and story, crystallized into myth and codified into religion-and only then criticized in philosophy, and provided, post-hoc, with rational underpinnings.

Jordan Peterson

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