Understanding Postmodernism: The 3 Stages to Today´s Insanity (Stephen Hicks)

Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks is a Canadian-American philosopher who teaches at Rockford University, where he also directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship.

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[KyleClements]

Postmodernism is a tool that allows us to take any idea, question, or issue, then manipulate language until the answer you want comes out.

[mortalityreigns]

A very useful encapsulation of how academia degraded and destroyed itself.

[donello]

Hierarchies of competency replaced by hierarchies of victimhood. Ha, yeah what could possibly go wrong?

[michaelchan]

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"

[hydrogenroar]

Postmodernism is meant to be discussed at length at dinner parties with a cigarette in one hand and a cocktail in the other.

[winniewildflower]

I am so grateful for Stephen Hicks and Jordan Peterson. Thank you so much.

[paulharris]

I LOVE this video! Stephen Hicks' clarity and directness are so to the point, and the disturbed perplexity in his facial expressions - says it all.

[yexey]

Stephen Hicks' book Explaining Postmodernism is brilliant if you want a deeper understanding of this topic.

[j.scottburgeson]

Better title: How Postmodernism Became Neo-Communism

[ThatsWhenItkickedin]

Holy shit. Listening to this, now I realize how I was allured by the idea of Communism when I was in 10th grade up through early hippie days. I had a crush on Castro, my heartthrob was Che and Gadaffi of Libya was looking cute too. I went to live on a commune where all was equal and our thing in common was hatred of our government. It took me 2 weeks to figure out they were all on food stamps and welfare. I was the one chopping the wood, as they were busy eating. Appropriate the name of that dump was called "Fat City" . I hitchhiked my way back to Los Angeles and got a job and earned enough money to get an apartment and some LSD which flipped my mind back to reality.

[r.s.]

I watch this in June 202 and everything Stephen Hicks said has come to fruitation.

[theodorearaujo]

If there is no truth, why would equality be superior to inequality? Why compensatory justice instead of the strong being fully justified in asserting their advantage?

[rubewaddell]

As the group Bright Eyes noted in their song "We are Nowhere and It's Now": "And if you swear that there's no truth and who cares How come you say it like you are right?"

[ArkOmen]

When I was in school, in my last class of my Master's degree to finish with my teacher's education, the course was titled "Philosophical Foundations of Education". The first words out the professor's mouth were... "You know what? Marxism ain't bad!" Ha ha the whole class was nothing but socialist indoctrination! The scary thing was that all of the people in the class seemed to just repeat and reiterate the professor's postulates like trained parrots! I couldn't believe it. I was the only objector and challenged everything. Postmodernism to me was just a veiled term to me to push the whole Animal Farm mob rule mentality. Like the phase of achievement in our society is done and now because of technology, it's time that we all go socialist now and feel bad for all of the industrial build out. Just silly stuff. I can't believe how gullible people are and how they would fall for such nonsense.

[jamesmcdonald]

Hick and/or Peterson should do an animated series wherein they explain the various high-profile ideologies plaguing western society.

[davidhume]

Some old fashioned expressions seems to me to be applicable to postmodernist philosophers and their followers; (1) "educated beyond their intelligence", and (2) "A little learning is a dangerous thing". Those people do not have the intelligence to think for themselves and resist fashionable ideas; but they have had the intelligence (or was it just being obedient little regurgitaters of their teachers ideas?) to have passed the university entrance exams. Pretty silly eh?

[kennethchay]

I think Friedrich Nietzsche would be disgusted to have his vision of "will to power" linked to Ayn Rand, who was an ideologue and equated material wealth with personal "success". Nietzsche (and Kant, Schopenhauer, Emerson, Thoreau, Einstein, et al) despised "individuals" whose sense of self came from the material world. Such people were not individuals at all, but rather part of the mob, as were those who envied them. "Power" could only come from the struggle within (self-overcoming). BTW, they all viewed politics and political manipulation of ideas the lowest form of human discourse. That said, I agree that the extreme of the post-modernist movement is based on envy and trying to acquire power from without instead of within. None of these great philosophers cared one bit about these competitive finite games. The game was infinite and one must do one's best to contribute his/her true gifts (uniqueness) to the ongoing struggle toward human enlightenment and grace. One must transform themselves, not others. They despised labels as well since they were a means of thought and social control, and a mob mentality. That "envy is ignorance, imitation suicide" (Emerson).

[munyansebastien]

Post-modernism is a joke, but citing Ayn Rand as a credible alternative, really!!!? He completely sidesteps the fact that much of postmodernism takes its source in Nietzsche's Genealogy of Morals, where Christian and is presented as a reflection or an idealization of one's position of weakness, therefore denying any claim of objectivity for moral reasoning. Postmodernism, at least early French postmodernism, is not left wing, it is (for the most part, since it is not a unified ideology) a radical relativist "philosophy" which is highly skeptical about the possibility of revolution or even social change, since everything is analysed as power relations, making any claims of building a better society highly dubious to its proponents.

[jeremypeel]

The 'unintended' consequences of moral relativism, multiculturalism and subjective reality.

[nickwilliams]

This strategy is just self-refuting.

After all, if you *can* successfully get a person to shut up and go away, then - by definition - your power and privilege must exceed theirs.