492: Above the Snowflakes - Series Introduction
Today, many young people are looking for personal liberation in all the wrong places.
Discussed:
- Thaddeus vs. Jordan Peterson: common ground?
- letting go of a conspiracy theory
- over-corrective responses to to Enlightenment problems
- The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory
- Postmodernism and identity politics
- redeeming Marx from the horrifying political consequences
- making a better world: the top-down and individual-up approaches
- the consequences of biological determinism
- the benefits of identity politics
- the trap of identity politics (essentialism)
- how people accidentally make themselves political pawns
- subjectivity and its philosophical problems
- my unfortunate history prioritizing group identity over my self (knowledge and improvement)
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