A Postmodern Postmortem

Posted by Solver 4 years, 10 months ago to Philosophy
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Great, but deep and longer, talk between Benjamin Boyce (from the infamous Evergreen college) and James Lindsay (writer and speaker on the excesses of Grievance Studies and has long been studying the influence of postmodern thought on present day puritanical political correctness.)

If you’re really interested in finding out why goal posts in schools, colleges, universities, media, news and politics are moving further and further to the authoritarian and socialist left, this is a video you should watch.

Explains in detail the awokening, identity gnosticism and the rise of an authoritarian-left whose lives are sucked into a puritanical cult in constant moral panic about every little thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFBWy...

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  • Posted by $ jdg 4 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    And if you believe in anything taught by Dead White European Males, especially fundamental things such as logic, mathematics, or philosophy, there is no forgiveness.

    If these people get their way they'll send us all to re-education camps or kill us.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you have integrated knowledge and wisdom, (the results of integrations): Intra-lectual. there is no forgiveness...never mind universal truths.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 4 years, 10 months ago
    True but it's funny because postmodernism is the opposite of actual standard morality, instead it can mean anything and anytime according to how one "Feels" at the moment.

    Thanks, I'll check out the video when I get the chance.
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  • Posted by Solver 4 years, 10 months ago
    If you’re really interested in finding out why goal posts in schools, colleges, universities, media, news and politics are moving further and further to the authoritarian and socialist left, this is a video you should watch.

    “...is the clearest example of the institutionalization of newest iteration of social justice mentality with all its little Kafka traps and its inability to disagree and how it can hollow out an organization and showing what happens when you put it in practice.”
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  • Posted by Solver 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It was even more interesting when they theorized how this religious like cultism took over Google (and others.)

    There are a number of internet videos on the Evergreen fiasco. I posted some of them as the situation was exploding well over a year ago.

    The guest speaker wrote this essay which includes his ideas of “social justice.”
    https://areomagazine.com/2018/12/18/p...
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 4 years, 10 months ago
    I liked the video, esp toward the end. The word post-modernism has gone out of fashion but the ideas that we cannot know anything and that everything is about political power struggle on behalf of groups are stronger than ever.

    I wish they had defined social justice. I think of the social justice committee at church, but they mean something different. I also didn't get the references to Evergreen, where apparently they instituted policies based on post-modernism and it was a huge failure.

    It was an interesting link between the atheist and skeptic communities and post-modernism.
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "one of the rules of postmodernism is you do not explain postmodernism"
    It's like fight club in that way.
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  • Posted by Solver 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That’s normal when trying to understand this ideology.
    Just ask Andy Ngo, the journalist.
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  • Posted by Solver 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Funny. This stems from postmodernism and one of the rules of postmodernism is you do not explain postmodernism.
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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 4 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, Solver, that explains everything. Thanks for the enlightenment. I was unaware of this. Maybe now I can be a better person. I am ashamed of my ignorance.
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  • Posted by Solver 4 years, 10 months ago
    You take postmodern theory, add in one undisputable, unalterable meta-truth and create today’s religious like ideology where,

    If you’re white, there’s no forgiveness.
    If you’re a man, there’s no forgiveness.
    If you’re straight, there’s no forgiveness.
    If you’re a Christian, there’s no forgiveness.
    If you’re rich, there’s no forgiveness.
    If you’re intelligent, there’s no forgiveness.
    If you’re successful, there’s no forgiveness.
    If you’re healthy, there’s no forgiveness.
    If you’re normal, there’s no forgiveness.
    If you’re happy, there is no forgiveness.
    If you’re alive, there’s no forgiveness.
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