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Modern Times - Camille Paglia

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Distruction of the Work of Art

Post modernism seems to be driven by resentment about virtually anything that has any merit of competence or aesthetic quality, he says. He thinks it's partly rooted in the academics disdain for the business world and their relative economic inequality. But there also seems to be a an aim for destruction ofof the aesthetic quality of the literary or artistic work, its reduction to nothing but some kind of power game,. And then i surrounding that, the reduction of everything to something that approximates a power game which i can't help but identifying with with jealousy and resentment as as a fundamental motivator.

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