The Existentialists - Is It a Problem?

Doctor peterson: I've been wanting to ask you this for a while now. Since i started reading a niches beyond good and evil, i came upon a paragraph in his, a chapter on scholars that really, really bothered me. It actually bothers me to this day. He talked about this kind of person like they were just a mirror,. Like they stretched, he said, every part of their skin, basically, to allow every new piece of information they took on. And that all they ever were was just an instrument. They were just a mirror, a reflecting what they had learned, never actually having generated anything on their own. Its bothered me because i feel, in a way...