Akira The Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - The Finite & The Infinite lyrics

Be careful where you aim at
Be careful where you aim at

When I started working on this problem
Or I guess when it start working on me was
Probably really in the mid 80s
I found myself suffering from two things
One was a very lengthy sequence
Of nightmares of nuclear destruction
They were very affective dreams
And associated with that was a sense
Of amazement that the dream that
Was that awful could reflect a reality
That could be that awful
And additional amazement at the fact
That despite the production
Of tens and thousands of
Weapons of unimaginable destruction
That people could go about their day-to day
Lives without acting as
If anything fundamental
Whatsoever had changed
I've never really been able to figure out
Why that disturb me so much
When it seemed to not disturb most
Of the people I knew
It doesn't really matter
Spent my whole life trying to understand
What evil was and more importantly
What might be done about it

Human existence consists of
The confrontation between
The finite and the infinite
The finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of
The confrontation between
The finite and the infinite
The finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of
The confrontation between
The finite and the infinite
The finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of
The confrontation between
The finite and the infinite
The finite and the infinite

Before you can dare to talk
About something like evil
You should do some thinking about what
It is that you're talking about
And I don't think you can
Talk about it at all
Until you distinguish it from tragedy
The nature of human being is such that
It consists of a confrontation
With the bounded finite
With the unbounded infinite
That those are the bare facts of the matter
The world of experience as
It presents it'self
To us is literally and not metaphorically
Complex beyond our capacity to understand
And that means people deal in a real sense
On an ongoing basis with the infinite
That fact is the reason why religious
Experience is essentially endemic to mankind
It's a healing universal
And it's not because people believe

Human existence consists of
The confrontation between
The finite and the infinite
The finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of
The confrontation between
The finite and the infinite
The finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of
The confrontation between
The finite and the infinite
The finite and the infinite
Human existence consists of
The confrontation between
The finite and the infinite
The finite and the infinite

And religious systems merely take
That into account
Now our finitude in the face of the infinite
Has some inevitable consequences
Those consequences are essentially the
Existential conditions of life
The finite is always overwhelmed
By the infinite
It has to be, because it can't encapsulate it
So what that means is
Suffering is central to the
Nature of human existence