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Join Jordan Peterson as he delves into the profound implications of postmodernist ideology on society and individual identity. In this enlightening discourse, Peterson confronts the corrosive nature of resentment and the rejection of gratitude inherent in postmodernist thought.
Drawing on his deep understanding of philosophy and psychology, Peterson elucidates the fundamental tenets of postmodernism, highlighting its disdain for logic, dialogue, and individual autonomy. He warns against the insidious grip of identity politics, where individuals are reduced to mere representatives of their demographic groups, fostering division and victimhood.
With impassioned conviction, Peterson challenges viewers to reclaim the principles of responsibility and free speech as essential pillars of a flourishing society. He calls on young people to embrace the profound meaning found in shouldering the weight of individual autonomy and the transformative power of genuine responsibility.
As Peterson shines a light on the ideological battlegrounds of academia and the erosion of intellectual diversity, he urges both conservatives and liberals alike to stand against the encroachment of radical ideology and reclaim the timeless values that underpin a free and prosperous society.
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it's not optional to understand this
it's absolutely crucial to understand uh the first thing that you might want to note about postmodernism is that it doesn't have a shred of gratitude and there's something pathologically wrong with a person who does have doesn't have any gratitude especially when they live in what so far is the best of all possible worlds and so if you're not grateful you're driven by resentment and resentment is about the worst emotion that you can possibly experience apart from arrogance resentment arrogance and deceit there's an evil Triad for you and if you're bitter about everything that's happening around you despite the fact that you're bathed in wealth then there's something absolutely wrong with you join Jordan Peterson as he delves into the profound implications of postmodernist ideology on society and individual identity in this enlightening discourse Peterson confronts the corrosive nature of resentment and the rejection of gratitude inherent in postmodernist thought so you have to educate yourself about postmodernism okay so here's what the postmodernists believe they don't believe in the individual that's the logos part Western cultur is fell logocentric logo is logos that's partly the Christian word but it's also partly the root word of logic okay they don't believe in logic they believe that logic is part of the process by which the patriarchal institutions of the West continue to dominate and to justify their dominance they don't believe in dialogue the root word of dialogue is logos again they don't believe that people of Good Will can come to consensus through the ex through the exchange of ideas they believe that that notion is part of the philosophical substructure and practices of the dominant culture so the reason they don't let people who they don't agree with speak on campus is because they don't agree with letting people speak you see it's not part of the ethos okay so what else do they believe and not believe they believe that you since you don't have an individual identity your fundamental identity is is group fostered and that means that you're basically an Exemplar of your race hence White Privilege or you're an Exemplar of however you can be classified so that you you are placed in the position of victim against the oppressor because that's the game and it's it's a it's a post-marxist slight of hand right the old Marxist notion was that the world was a Battleground between the Bourgeois and the proletariat and that uh failed to have any Phil opical or ethical standing that argument after the working class actually saw its standard of living massively elevated as a consequence of of Western corporate democracy uh Western free enterprise democracy and also be and and also as a consequence of the revelations of everything terrible that had happened in every bloody country that ever dared to make equity and and and the Marxist communist Dogma part of their fundamental structure right and nothing but murderousness and oppression and so by the 1970s it was evident that that game was up the postar the postmodernist Marxist just barely basically pulled a slight of hand and said okay if it's not the poor against the rich it's the oppressed against the oppressor we'll just redivide the subpopulations in ways that make our our bloody philosophy continue in its in its in its movement forward and that's where we're at now and so for the postmodernists the world is a Hoban battleground of identity groups they do not communicate with one another because they can't all there is is a struggle for power and if you're in the Predator Group which means you're an oppressor then you better look out because you're not exactly welcome ah not exactly welcome and neither are your ideas so that's what you're up against I would say it's time for conservatives to stop apologizing for being conservatives you don't apologize to these people that's a big mistake apology they're they read apology as a as a as an admission of guilt you don't apologize and you don't back down you young people that are out there who are University students you need to take over the student unions you need to take them back because they're absolute snake pits and they have been since the 1990s and with regards with regards to the universities I thought at one point that the best thing to do would be to cut their funding by 25% and let them fight amongst themselves for the remnants because it would force the universities to decide exactly what's important and what isn't so I would say the humanities and much of the social sciences has has turned into a postmodern neo-marxist playground for Radicals the scholarship is terrible 80% of Humanity's papers aren't cited once once and so what that means is that they write papers for each other and they sell them to libraries and that's how the Publishers make their money no one reads them but the Publishers can print them because the libraries have to buy them and they're buying them with your tax money and so all of you who are sitting here are funding an a post-modern radical neo-marxist agenda that has its roots in the university and your tax money is going towards that and if you want proof of that you just go online and look at the websites especially of of disciplines like women's studies which is pathological right to the core but it's not just women's studies it's all the ethnic studies group it's anthropology it's sociology it's social work and most of all it's education now we need to figure out our society needs to figure out how to stop shunting public tax money to radical leftwing activists if we were doing that for radical right-wing activists there would be an absolute storm but it's happened incrementally since the 1960s and it needs to stop so that's that's partly what the the conservatives not only conservatives but also liberals true liberals in the English sense are up against I mean what's happened as also as a consequence of this post-modern neo-marxist intellectual invasion is that the center keeps moving it's moved way to the right now so if you're a classic liberal you've become a conservative and so for all of you who are interested in puru pursuing the conservative agenda there's a lot of classic liberals that you could be talking to and then finally with regards to talking to young people you find fin have something to sell to them you know it's not easy to sell conservatism to young people because they want to change things and that's not what conservatives want to do they want to maintain things well now you've got something to sell to young people you can sell them freedom of speech and you can tell sell them responsibility the left is selling them rights you can sell them responsibility and I can tell you because I've received many letters of the sort that that God was talking about young people are absolutely starving for someone to provide them with a sense of responsibility say look here's something worth living for man you know you can find meaning in life with freedom but freedom freedom is a chaotic sort of meaning right and and freedom isn't the sort of thing that makes people happy it's the sort of thing that makes people Troublesome troubled because um Freedom expands your your series of choices and that makes you nervous and uncertain so but responsibility is another not to say that that's a bad thing it's a good thing but it it it requires that you that you shoulder the responsibility of the free freedom but responsibility per se is what gives your life meaning genuine meaning in the face of suffering and you and young people are really they're starving for that I've been teaching young people for 30 years and mostly what I've been teaching them about is responsibility and one of the one of the responsibilities of young people is to find out what's at the core of that the great great core of that the the Paramount the Paramount importance of the individual and the Divinity of speech man that's something to sell it's what our whole culture is predicated
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