Summary of Jordan Peterson on Post-Modernism

00:00:00 - 00:30:00

Jordan Peterson discusses post-modernism and its impact on academia and society. He argues that post-modernism is a radical and destructive ideology, and that its adherents have control over many low to mid-level bureaucratic structures.

• 00:00:00 Jordan Peterson talks about post-modern philosophy and how it is a threat to contemporary human culture. He explains that Foucault and Derida took a critical approach to the history of Western philosophy, and that their work might call some of Peterson's own assumptions about truth, culture, and society into question.
• 00:05:00 Jordan Peterson discusses post-modernism and how it became popular in the 1970s after classic Marxism had been discredited. He says that anyone who could support Marxism was a reprobate and the French intellectuals didn't actually do that.
• 00:10:00 Jordan Peterson discusses post-modernism and its impact on academia and society. He argues that post-modernism is a radical and destructive ideology, and that its adherents have control over many low to mid-level bureaucratic structures.
• 00:15:00 Jordan Peterson discusses the criticisms of post-modern philosophers, Daria DeRidan and Deridan Foucault, who argue that empathy is the driving force behind post-modern philosophy. Peterson argues that this is not the case, and that post-modern philosophy is instead a critique of the idea that the individual is the rightfulhighest value in a culture.
• 00:20:00 Jordan Peterson critiques the idea that language is the primary way we access direct truth, and that there is an absolute truth that we can access in this mathematical way. He also points out that post-modern philosophy is rooted in a Marxist lie of white privilege.
• 00:25:00 Jordan Peterson discusses the idea of post-modernism, which is a philosophical movement that critiques traditional ideas of rationality and authority. Post-modern thinkers argue that hierarchies exist and are a consequence of power differentials. They also believe that, while individuals do exist, they are constituted by networks of power.
• 00:30:00 Jordan Peterson discusses post-modernism, noting that Daria wants power above all else and that derida's categories of unconditional hospitality and radical friendship require opening up one's home to the absolute unknown Anonymous.