This half hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario in 2004, as the 1st of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.
Theme: The rise of rationality and the scientific method comprised a significant challenge to the religious world-view, but in its place rose ideological systems of true horror, led by resentful and arrogant tyrants such as Mao Tse-Tung, Stalin and Hitler. The demolition of traditional theories of morality thus opened the floodgates for pathological replacements of unforeseeable rigidity and cruelty.This half hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario in 2004, as the 1st of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is base...all »This half hour video was broadcast on TV Ontario in 2004, as the 1st of a 13-part series dealing with mythology and neuroscience. It is based on the book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief.
Theme: The rise of rationality and the scientific method comprised a significant challenge to the religious world-view, but in its place rose ideological systems of true horror, led by resentful and arrogant tyrants such as Mao Tse-Tung, Stalin and Hitler. The demolition of traditional theories of morality thus opened the floodgates for pathological replacements of unforeseeable rigidity and cruelty.«
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