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A Dialogue with Tom Amarque

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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Is There a Constructive Contrast of Postmodernism?

I've been thinking more in terms of political beliefs, especially over simplified ones as compression algorithms. That's a way of thinking about it because the world is so complex that it's really beyond human understanding. And so what we do as a consequence of that is use simplifying heuristics to clump diverse things into homogenous groups and treat them as if they're one thing. But there's a danger in that now and then the things that you make invisible are the crucial phenomena. So yes, but this is one of those performative contradictions of postmodernism, I guess.

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