Where Are The Adults?
Hovik Arshaguni
Twitter: @hovitostatus
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In Part 2 we explain the general postmodern worldview – how it perceives EVERYTHING to be a mask for corrupt power dynamics and has a deep skepticism for objectivity when it comes to truth or morality or anything else.
In future segments we will examine how this framework became the bedrock foundational dogma across a host of academic disciplines including critical queer theory, critical race theory, whiteness studies, women’s studies, etc.
Once you learn there are no absolute values or truths in postmodernism, you can understand why certain elements of woke terminology that have been spilling into the public sphere are completely subjective – microaggression, cultural appropriation, white privilege, white fragility, “lived experience”, and on and on. These terms are not absolute ideas but rather relative perceptions of perceived offense.
They do not allow us to build a better world because they cannot provide a firm basis for a concept of good virtues or good behavior. In postmodernism, the only sense of “goodness” is whatever one can do to dismantle and disrupt everything that exists in the current “system”.
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Personally, when I was a pot smoking philosopher, it was due to the oversaturation of (what I now recognize as) postmodernism in college. What is interesting, I initially went in 03, and dropped out…then went back in 2012…by that time the curriculum had become even more radicalized. I cant even imagine what it's like today.
As long as we are critiquing learning, the term you are looking for is "academic RIGOR", not "vigor".
Also: it's one thing to dismiss the post-modernists as "weed smoking hippies" (or however you put it), but unless you yourself have a sharp understanding of the position you are defending (liberalism), then all you are doing is repeating someone else's talking points.
Thank you for breaking down these concepts. It seems that postmodernism tries to tackle some of our society's inequalities in a rather nihilistic way. However liberalism in its current form often lacks the ability to make meaningful changes. I wholeheartedly agree with you that if postmodernism became more popular and these ideas became more widely our society would suffer but is liberalism doing enough in its present form to provide equality of opportunity to the less fortunate? Would love to hear your thoughts and look forward to seeing new content from you.
One of the best breakdowns of Postmodernism I've seen! I will show this to my students. As a history professor who constantly fights this ideology in academia, I would love to have a discussion with you!!
"I'm an American of Armenian descent." That statement was beautiful. We should all think that way. We are Americans first and foremost; racial, ethnic, religious and other identity is secondary!
Very well made short introduction to the intellectual mess the Western culture is in right now. Being a stunned witness from afar gives me no satisfaction nor entertainment since we, here in Eastern Europe, were given the most bloody, deadly lesson on what the marxist political reality means. I really wish you luck cause you're going to have a very tumultuous, difficult time during which many aspects of American project will undergo a final trial. The natural cycle of collapsing empire (I highly recommend reading John Bagot Glubb on this subject), the myth of never-ending growth, the decay of the society's ethos, the corruption of elites, the downward spiral of lost, infertile academia and on the top of that looming shadow of war due to unavoidable Thucidydes Trap. Maybe all of this will be the longest and saddest proof trial that multiculturalism is doomed to failure when the underlying social common values like liberalism and patriotism are removed. And maybe you'll manage to overcome that and the American experiment will succeed. All I know is that while 20 years ago America was something we were aspiring to become, now we're trying to defend from.
Another good video, i've been reading all this for years too. I wish more people understood this subject matter.
Thank you for sharing your understanding.
What type of class system did the frameworkers of post modernism believe exists (if any). Where did they fit in a traditional class/caste system?
This is very helpful. I always hear Jordan Peterson throwing these words around and you break them down very well.