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Ep: 30 Ch 12 "A Physicist's History of Bad Philosophy" Part 1: The Introduction

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The Defense Against Postmodernism

There's too little error correction and too much reliance upon so-called authority if a person is designated as an academic at a university then this is seen by many as all that it takes. The language of inclusion and diversity and equity seems unobjectionable social justice sounds altogether good but any modifier to an actual virtue like justice means you're not interested in justice. While enforcing inclusion or diversity or even equality enforcing any of these things is a form of tyranny. There's rather a lot of baby left once the bathwater has been discarded in David Deutsch's critique, says Richard Dorkins.

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