Jordan B. Peterson

Because you have to fit the ideal to the capacity of the person that's moving forward.

That's what you do as a parent, if you have any sense at all, and maybe as a friend too, and you certainly do that to yourself.

Yeah, well, that's too much pity.

That's an infantilizing act.

So the next thing that happens, and he took the calf which they had made, this is a strange part of the text, and burnt it in the fire and ground it to powder and strew it upon the water and made the children of Israel drink of it.

And so that's really the forced admission that that came from within them, that that sin was within them.

They couldn't blame it on the idol.

Right, it's food for you and not something that you worship.

And Moses said unto Aaron, What did these people do unto thee that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?

And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my Lord wax hot.

I mean, that echoes in fact right at the beginning of the chapter, isn't it?

The Israelites saying it's this Moses is the man who brought us out of Egypt.

So, it's kind of they have to completely forgotten God.

Well, Moses is back and I guess Aaron now remembers who he is.

Yeah.

Let not the anger of my Lord wax hot.

Thou knowest the people that they are set on mischief.

Yeah, so he blames it on the people.

For they said unto me, Make us gods which shall go before us.

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