The Intellectual Roots of Wokeness with James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian (Ep.15)
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Critical Theory - What Is It, and How Does It Work?
critical theory arose in the 19 twenties, going into the 19 thirties. It was outlined by a number of communist thinkers who noticed that the communist revolutions that had been predicted were not taking place. And so this school of thought arose to try to explain why that wasn't ing. So they started to look at how the elesan society produce culture. They produce mass culture, they produce popular culture. But out of that consciousness that would lead them to want to overthrow they're happy with their lives,. and so they aren't going to overthrow society. Post modernism is a much more pessimistic reaction to the failures of marxism. Its big picture idea is that all of knowledge is
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