Bookclub: Social (in)Justice - Chapter 2: Applied PostModernism (Part 1)
Social (In)justice: Why Many Popular Answers to Important Questions of Race, Gender, and Identity Are Wrong - and How to Know What's Right: A Reader-Friendly Remix of Cynical Theories
by Helen Pluckrose (Author), James Lindsay (Author), Rebecca Christiansen (Contributor)
Virtual Bookclub reading and commentary.
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Chapter 2: Applied Post-Modernism - Part 1
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Summary forthcoming.
I invite you to order a copy of the book for yourself and follow along as we go through each of the ten chapters of the book, one at a time and uncover how those ideas are taking shape in the world around us!
Order the book at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Social-justice-Important-Wrong-Reader-Friendly/dp/1634312236/
Helen Pluckrose's site: https://counterweightsupport.com/
James Lindsey's site: https://newdiscourses.com/
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
01:57 - Becoming Woke to post-modernism
04:28 - Reading
07:16 - Inherent Nihilism
10:48 - David Foster Wallace & sincerity
20:48 - Rick & Morty vs Nihilism
25:19 - The Acid without a container
26:22 - Double Standards
29:43 - Critical Constructivism & Structural Determinism
35:25 - Essentialism vs Determinism
38:25 - Demanding Proof of the Self Evident
39:44 - Determinism vs Agency
44:00 - PostModernism as a Virus
47:00 - PostModern Orchestrated Alienation
50:44 - Reading - The Mutation of Theory
53:45 - The New Left
55:17 - Stokely Carmichael & Marxist Black Nationalism
59:00 - Angela Davis & Marxist Black Feminism
01:07:20 - Malcom X and Radicalization
01:14:45 - Neo-Marxism with Post Modern tools
01:16:40 - Cultural Marxism Anti-Semitic?
01:21:30 - Roger Scruton and the Corruption of the Academy
01:27:17 - Niceness vs Truth
01:31:28 - Outro
LINKS:
Chris Hanna is a product of the academic pedagogical engine which produces the "woke" but in his case the indoctrination didn't take. He discusses classical liberalism, the perils of new illiberalism and atheism/religion/spirituality on his YouTube channel.
Chris Hanna: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0L0ZZSOmJHyNR-xVKufjw
Jared Higdon is a regular contributor and cohost at the "My Spiritual Life" Youtube channel.
My Spiritual Life: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGm61vMUzmNa0o2_GD8GQIA
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