Postmodernism | Gad Saad and Jordan B. Peterson

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In season 4 episode 6 of the Jordan B. Peterson podcast Gad Saad and Jordan discuss a multitude of parasitic ideas, mostly in relation to Gad’s new book, "The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense".

This is a continuation of the discussion of parasitic ideas that Gad and Jordan explored in-depth on the full podcast. What happens when social constructivism goes too far?

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[bush_boi_bass_bone]

If postmodernism is intellectual terrorism, Jordan Peterson is like the John Wick of intelligentsia.

[dustinpriest]

I miss Jordan Peterson showing up on my YouTube feed and watching him so much. I feel like he really cares for people and has the answers for humanity.

[Individual_Lives_Matter]

Postmodernism reminds me of when I was meditating a lot and I thought I would eventually see through the thoughts and words I had imposed on reality. I would see the world as it truly was. I felt better breathing deeply. I was calmer. I was less wrapped up in BS and drama but the world was still there. But I wasn’t seeing through some illusion or walking through walls or whatever other mystical happenings I might have anticipated once I ‘transcended’. Postmodernists still have to (or at should) wipe their asses, no matter how socially constructed things might or might not be.

[jfmm]

"You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see." ~C.S. Lewis "Abolition of Man"

Go Jordan

[carolynsherman]

Two of my very favorite thinkers talking with each other!! Does life get any better than this?!

[Rampart.X]

If nothing is objectively true or real, then on what basis is that claim both true and real?

[cameronbrown]

If what postmodernists say is true, that there is no objectively better idea than any other, postmodernism is no objectively better an idea than modernism, or any other idea

[JL-hzli]

I had a conversation with a feminist and my feeling was like that “dancing hyena” exactly.
It’s like, every time when I spent 10 min establishing a tiny piece of common ground to build up the discussion, she said “nope I teleport to another continent now”.

[מיכאלמרטיןבנדיקטוס]

Dear JBP. Maps of meaning just arrived via the atlantic. Buying it was the first thing i did upon liistening in to the times interview. Rarely been happier to pay for a book.

[beemo]

"The holy trinity of bullshit" - love Gad's bluntness. He won't be canceled.

[NNPerfection]

Good to see Dr. Peterson looking well!

[facundomora]

Mr Peterson thanks for sharing this! Greets from Argentina!

[joeyschwartz]

Excellent episode. Peterson is stronger and his cognitive health improves week by week. So happy he made it through his illness.

[johnbrien]

The Childrens story of ‘the Emperors NewClothes’ is instructive
While the crowd interpreted what they saw subjectively
It took a small boy to see the situation for what it was-
BS!!!

[willyghost]

Peterson is getting back in the groove with every interview. Looking and sounding great!

[ugjhgjf]

Science is constantly proved all the time. If we take something like any fiction, any holy book, and destroyed it, in a thousand years' time, that wouldn't come back just as it was. Whereas if we took every science book and every fact and destroyed them all, in a thousand years they'd all be back because all the same tests would be the same result.

Ricky Gervais

[adventureswithjonny]

Hell yeah! The lobster king and the honey badger! 🦞 🦡

[froopzoop]

This "quasi marxism" I think is hegels master slave dialectic as thair conceptual basis. The rejection of absolute truth makes them stuck in the master slave dialectic making it go to the extreme.

[robertlusk]

When Gaad spoke with the lady at dinner he should have found out what she really cared about and then deny her opinion or feelings about this topic. For example, let's say he found out that she was an environmentalist, he should bring up some horrific pollution event to get her opinion on it. He can then guide her to agree that some things are objectively wrong.. or right. You have to get to what they care about because it is all about feelings and preferences with them.

[gorequillnachovidal]

the pomo girl agreed what all the other words meant though... like the guy asked her to go to a restaurant with him....so she had to agree with the cis white male what the word "restaurant" meant...