A bit of a conversation with myself

[ellajam]

i was just watching a debate about bill c-16 and freedom of speech with jordan peterson. and, although a bit of a stretch, i couldn't help seeing some parallels between his opening and some of the things people have discussed here and in other threads, especially with regards to improvement being a social thing and how listening to your own feedback loop is detrimental to progress [personal or otherwise].
i transcribed it quickly in word, please ignore all capital letters and correct spelling, i didn't have time to turn off auto-correct:

“. . .And when you talk it doesn’t mean you’re right. It doesn’t mean you’re correct. It means you’re trying to articulate and formulate your thoughts like the bone-headed moron that you are; and you’re going to stumble around, idiotically, because what the hell do you know? You’re full of biases and you’re ignorant and you can’t speak very well and you’re over-emotional and you’ve got problems that you can hardly even imagine and they’re interfering with your ability to state something clear; and so, what you do is, you do your best to say what you mean and then you listen to other people tell you why you’re a blithering idiot and hopefully you can correct yourself, to some degree, as a consequence of listening to them. You see, that is what free speech is about. It isn’t just that people can organise themselves and societies by thinking; you can’t do that because there’s only one of you. What you have to do is articulate your thoughts in a public forum so that other people can attack you and then you want to step back a little bit and you want to correct what you say because then you correct how you are and then you correct how you act in life and then you correct your society and to the degree that we limit freedom of expression we put all of that at risk.”