Jordan Peterson: "Free speech isn’t “free speech.” You know, people think of free speech as kind of like a decoration in your life. And it’s not that at all. It’s not the ability to “speak truth to power,” although it is also that. It’s not that; it’s way more than that.
Free speech is how you think. But it’s not thinking. You know, the “Word” that Genesis relies on to create the cosmos—by the way, that’s the image of God in which you’re made, male and female, which gives you that fundamental value that’s at the core of our idea of natural right—it’s not thinking. It’s speaking. And the reason for that is, first of all, you can hardly think. It’s really hard to think. You have to be trained like mad to think. You have to be able to divide yourself internally into a couple of different people, and then you have to let those people have a war in your head. And that means you have to develop characters who have opinions in great detail—opinions that might be contrary to your own, and then …More