{"id":9130,"date":"2023-02-08T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9130"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:33:12","slug":"control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=9130","title":{"rendered":"CONTROL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;People don&#8217;t have ideas. Ideas have people.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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&#8217;s teachings.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wherever it originated, it strikes me as true.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 &#8211; keeping only the true and useful ones while kicking all false or weak ones to the curb &#8211; our rule over ideas is largely an illusion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Put another way, in both subtle and profound ways, our ideas control us more than we control them.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People don&#8217;t have ideas. Ideas have people.&#8221; 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&#8217;s teachings. Wherever it originated, it strikes me as true.\u00a0 To me, it means that ideas are powerful entities with a life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9130\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}