Jordan B. Peterson

And even if we do see them, it doesn't instantiate the kind of wisdom that instantly makes us into saints.

And so I think this is really reflective of what people are like.

And the atheist scientists, they say, well, just show me some proof.

And the right response to that is you'd forget about the damn proof in about 15 seconds.

You think you're way more amenable to proof than you are.

So, okay, so let's go into the golden calf here.

Right, right, great.

So we've got the tablets.

Great.

Inscribed by the finger of God on stone, right, so that you don't forget them.

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, well, he's up there communing with God, so you'd think they could have a little, and they know it, so you'd think they'd have a little patience with that.

The people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, he's the political mediator, and said unto him, up, make us some gods, which shall go before us.

For as this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we want not what has become of him.

And Aaron said unto them, break off the golden earrings.

It really is a pretty comical story, isn't it?

It's so preposterous, it's so pathetic.

And Aaron said unto them, break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons and your daughters, and bring them unto me.

It shows that the political without Moses, without the divine prophet is instantly at the whim of the idiot populists.

It's something like that, the faithless idiot populists.

And all the people break off the golden earrings which were in their ears and brought them unto Aaron.