560: Why are there dragons in every culture? Are they real?
Description
With special guest Longinus, P&C drink and review Samuel Adams' Jack-O Pumpkin Ale, then wonder why dragons show up in so many cultures around the world.
Spanning the east, the west, and the Americas, the boys discuss dragon stories -- what they have in common and how they diverge.
* Are they always mean?
* Do they always hoard treasure?
* Do they always want to eat virgins?
* Were they all sea serpents?
What they have in common is a monster that represents chaos.
In the west, people believed in actual dragons for a long time, then modernism set in and killed the dragons. Tolkien and other fantasy writers revived them. Now we have dragons all over the place again.
Jordan Peterson often repeats a theory -- based on evolutionary psychology -- for why dragons developed.
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