
The Intellectual Roots of Wokeness with James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian (Ep.15)
Conversations With Coleman
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The Political Principle of Post Modernism
The political principle of post modernism is that there's no access to objective truth. The powerful in society are the ones who get to decide which statements are true, as fuco would put it. So we have to be very sceptical of anything that maintains the dominant view of the world. And i actually talked about this a little bit on njganrope and i wrote an essay on new discourses about it. I think people misunderstand what jim said, coleman, as meaning there's no objective reality, right? That's not what they mean. It means they don't care about objective reality. M the truth is a social construct that human beings vausi
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