Peterson likes to use them because as a therapist it allows him to use cognitive behavioral therapy by suggestion thereby circumventing normal human resistance to persuasion.
It’s why myths work. Its why they teach. It’s why we use them. He’s just applied it to therapy
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@yat_es @Salamandrens @Outsideness No, that’s not it. Its that anthropomorphism is the most intuitive system of measurement for man, requiring the least knowledge and experience, with similarity across civilizations, and when used in narratives can encode group strategy and a ‘logical’ paradigm within it.
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