“The liberals are correct when it comes to borders that if you thicken them too much and diminish the information flow, you risk making the society so static that any radical environmental transformation will sink it.
"But the conservatives are right in that you pay a big price in regards to newcomers and new information with regards to risk to exposure, to contamination and contaminating ideas.
"I've always thought that the environment always moves back and forth like a snake in some sense, and we are trying to do is to stay on the center of its back, and the only way we can do that is by having some people pull to the right and say "be careful" and some people pull to the left and say "well yeah, but be open", with that dialogue and the exchange of information that that dialogue allows, we can maybe specify the center of that moving target and stay on the back of the snake.”
(3) The Perilous State of the University: Jonathan Haidt & Jordan B Peterson - YouTube