"There are no "ideas" – there are only people that carry ideas around – and ideas get their stature from the people that carry them.” Nikos Kazantzakis
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Replying to @mistermircea @YouTube
Jordan Peterson says "You don't have ideas. Ideas have you."
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Replying to @david_perell @YouTube
That's Jung, not Peterson. Peterson has used it mainly to illustrate the power of ideology. Jung's statement is much broader and not antithetical to Kazantzakis'. It's the same phenomenon viewed from opposite sides of the spectrum.
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Memetic theory does a great job at describing this concept, what say you about memes?
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I think it has its uses as a concept but is by no means overarching. A scientific framework by default cannot address human subjectivity.
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