Jordan B. Peterson

And Moses turned and went down from the mount.

And the two tables of the testimony were in his hand.

The tables were written on both their sides.

On the one side and on the other were they written.

And the tables were the work of God.

And the writing was the writing of God graven upon the tables.

And when Joshua...

heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, there is a noise of war in the camp.

And he said, it is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear.

And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp,

That he saw the calf and the dancing.

This is a frenzy of sorts.

Is that a frenzy of descent, like untraveled descent into the natural world?

Right.

Merging downward.

That fits in with the fertility element, with the bull representing power, but also...

Right, so that's so interesting in relationship to our culture because what that essentially means, it's the rise of the dominance to the highest place of sexuality itself.

Of course, that's exactly what's happening in our culture, right?

Because that's even become the hallmark of personal identity and also the object of worship that borders on the mandatory, right?

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.