"People don't have ideas. Ideas have people."
I have heard this quote several times in recent years across social media. Apparently it is something that Jordan Peterson is relating as coming from Carl Jung's teachings.
Wherever it originated, it strikes me as true.
To me, it means that ideas are powerful entities with a life of their own. And although we believe we are in charge of our own ideas - keeping only the true and useful ones while kicking all false or weak ones to the curb - our rule over ideas is largely an illusion.
Put another way, in both subtle and profound ways, our ideas control us more than we control them.
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