I think the author is missing the fact that Peterson uses "postmodernism" as shorthand for what he calls "post-modern neo-Marxism" which is a meaningless phrase (I hope this is the right time—I'm...
I think the author is missing the fact that Peterson uses "postmodernism" as shorthand for what he calls "post-modern neo-Marxism" which is a meaningless phrase (I hope this is the right time—I'm in class so I was going off of memory/what's on screen, but really the whole video is worth a watch) meant to evoke "Cultural Marxism"—a Nazi term.
Jordan Peterson is pretty much a cut and dry conservative with strong anti-communist, anti-feminist, anti-science sentiment who attributes all of society's good to "Judeo-Christian values" and all of society's ills to communism and atheism, while mixing this all up with pseudoscience and psychology (much of which is bunk) and not telling his viewers which is which.
Besides that he is using his status as an academic to present himself as a serious thinker and "scientist", without mentioning that he is a Jungian and the unscientific nonsense that entails.
Besides that he is using his status as an academic to present himself as a serious thinker and "scientist", without mentioning that he is a Jungian and the unscientific nonsense that entails.
General distrust and hostility towards intellectuals/science/critical thought isn't a new phenomenon. It's part of an apparently widespread "dumbing down" that's been going on for years. Climate...
General distrust and hostility towards intellectuals/science/critical thought isn't a new phenomenon. It's part of an apparently widespread "dumbing down" that's been going on for years. Climate change denial has been around for decades, anti-vaccination sentiments even date back to the earlier decades of the 20^th century. This is a toxic mindset that's been growing and that the business and political elite have been willing to ignore (at best) or even fully support (at worst). People like Trump, Ford, Johnson, Duarte, etc are all where they are because they've managed to take advantage of this wave of populism. They're the symptoms, not the illness.
I think the author is missing the fact that Peterson uses "postmodernism" as shorthand for what he calls "post-modern neo-Marxism" which is a meaningless phrase (I hope this is the right time—I'm in class so I was going off of memory/what's on screen, but really the whole video is worth a watch) meant to evoke "Cultural Marxism"—a Nazi term.
Jordan Peterson is pretty much a cut and dry conservative with strong anti-communist, anti-feminist, anti-science sentiment who attributes all of society's good to "Judeo-Christian values" and all of society's ills to communism and atheism, while mixing this all up with pseudoscience and psychology (much of which is bunk) and not telling his viewers which is which.
Besides that he is using his status as an academic to present himself as a serious thinker and "scientist", without mentioning that he is a Jungian and the unscientific nonsense that entails.
General distrust and hostility towards intellectuals/science/critical thought isn't a new phenomenon. It's part of an apparently widespread "dumbing down" that's been going on for years. Climate change denial has been around for decades, anti-vaccination sentiments even date back to the earlier decades of the 20^th century. This is a toxic mindset that's been growing and that the business and political elite have been willing to ignore (at best) or even fully support (at worst). People like Trump, Ford, Johnson, Duarte, etc are all where they are because they've managed to take advantage of this wave of populism. They're the symptoms, not the illness.
What's the illness? Or the cure, for that matter?
Education.