Jordan Peterson made a helpful contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of the exchange of ideas, when he observed that, in the case of certain dogmatic progressives, it was not so much a case of people having ideas on certain subjects, but more that the ideas seem to have the people.
In fact, he went further and used the language of deliverance. He talked more specifically of people being possessed by certain ideas. Elon Musk offered a variation on the same theme, by describing certain ideas as analogous to a virus. In particular, he talked about people being infected by a “woke-mind” virus.
