Cognition on the Joe Rogan Experience

“You know, you hear, television makes people stupider. It's like, no, it makes smart people who could have been even smarter if they would have read Shakespeare…”

Peterson claims television only makes already-smart people relatively 'stupider' than they would have been otherwise, while being a net positive for severely deprived, unattended children, implying no downside from passive screen exposure for disadvantaged kids.