Akira The Don, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson - Underlying Meaning lyrics

Thousands of years ago
Plato proposed that all
Knowledge was remembering
Of course, we don't believe that today
Because we believe we gather knowledge as a
Consequences of contact with the world
But you'll see that the knowledge
That I'm gonna share with you will strike a
Deep chord of remembering
And it's because everything that you've done
Throughout your life is in one
Way or anothеr predicated on what I'm
Going to tell you today
I'm gonna dеmonstrate this in a
Peculiar way, I think
Because I'm gonna start by
Telling you a story
And the reason I'm going to do
That is because models of the
World that include phenomenon
Like consciousness, and


Emotions, and motivations, and actions
And interaction are generally portrayed
Formally in stories
And not in scientific theories
And it does turn out to
Be the stories themselves have
An identifiable structure even a grammar
That makes them comprehensible
Furthermore, it turns out that
Even the simplest stories
Especially if they're elegantly constructed
Have an unbelievably profound

Underlying meaning underlying meaning
Unbelievable profound underlying meaning

And you can frequently see this
Most particularly in children's stories
I remember I showed my son when
He was four years old, the Disney movie
"Pinocchio, " which is on the surface of
It is a very strange tale
Right? It's a wooden puppet

Someday, I'm gonna be a real boy
Who wants to become real
So he has to rescue his father
From the belly of a whale

Whale or no whale
I'm gonna find my father and
Rescue him i'm gonna go to him, Jimmy
Goodbye "Pinocchio" is a deep, deep story

Father, I'm gonna save you
It has echoes that go back three or 4
000 years to the earliest
Stories that we know
And it's so rich with information
The a child
Can watch it over, and over, and over
And over
(Over, and over, and over, and over)
I think my son watched "Pinocchio" 30 times
But why? Well, it's either because the
Child can't tell
The difference between fantasy and reality
Or it's because there's something
To those stories that's
Much more potent than we
Actually consciously understand
You'll find that in the top 10
Highest grossing movies of all time
Are four Disney movies that
Are animated fairytales
Essentially retelling a mythological stories
They strike a deep cord
Why? (Why?)

Underlying meaning underlying meaning
Unbelievable profound underlying meaning

Well, Shakespeare was of course
The great literary figure
He said it perhaps better than anyone
Else has, which is not surprising
'cause he said many things better
Than anyone else has
He said, "All the world's a stage
And all the men and women merely players
They have their exit's and their entrances
And one man in his time plays many parts"

Yeah! And so following from that
You can imagine that a story is no
More about the props in the world
Than a play that you go see as
About the props on the stage
The dramas is about the manner
In which people actually exist
The emotions that they feel
The motivational states they encounter
The problems they have to solve when
They interact with each other
And the play's the thing
From that particular perspective
In which we can
Capture those aspects of our experience
That are not only real
But essentially humans essentially human

Underlying meaning underlying meaning
Unbelievably profound underlying meaning

All the world's a stage and all
The men and women merely players
They have their exit's and
Their entrances and one
Man in his time plays many parts
All the world's a stage and all
The men and women merely players
They have their exit's and
Their entrances and one
Man in his time plays many parts
All the world's a stage and all
The men and women merely players
They have their exit's and
Their entrances and one
Man in his time plays many parts