Posted on 03/22/2018 11:09:21 AM PDT by grundle
In this three minute video, Jordan Peterson says that is is morally reprehensible for anyone who knows anything about 20th century history to support Marxism in the 21st century.
I’ve never heard a better criticism of 21st century Marxists than what’s in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p2QfjaSIUo
Here is the text of his speech:
The fact that the post-modernists dare to be Marxists is also something that I find I would say not so much intellectually reprehensible as morally repugnant. And one of the things that the post-modern neo-Marxists continually claim is that they have nothing but compassion for the downtrodden.
And I would say that anybody with more than a cursory knowledge of 20th century history who dares to claim simultaneously that they have compassion for the downtrodden and that they’re Marxists, are revealing either their ignorance of history that is so astounding that it’s actually a form of miracle, or a kind of malevolence that’s so reprehensible that it’s almost unspeakable, because we already ran the equity experiment over the course of the 20th century, and we already know what the Marxist doctrines have done for oppressed people all over the world. And the answer to that mostly was imprison them, enslave them, work them to death, or execute them.
And as far as I can tell that’s not precisely commensurate with any message of compassion. And so I don’t that think the post-modern neo-Marxists have a leg to stand on ethically, or intellectually, or emotionally. And I think that they should be gone after as hard as possible from an intellectual perspective – an informed intellectual perspective. And this is fundamentally a war of ideas.
And that’s the level of analysis that it should be fought upon. And not only is it a war of ideas, I think it’s one that can be won, because I think that especially the French intellectual post-modernists are a pack of – what would you call them? Well we could start with charlatans – that’s a good one. Pseudo-intellectual would be good. Resentful would be another.
And then I would also consider them highly – they’re highly deceptive in their intellectual strategies because almost all of them are Marxist student intellectuals and they knew by the time the gulag archipelago came out, and even before that, that the nightmares of the Soviet Union and Maoist China were of such magnitude that they had completely invalidated any claim to ethical justification that the fundamental Marxist doctrines had ever managed to manifest. And so, it’s a no go zone as far as I’m concerned.
Intellectually, the game’s over. We’ve already figured out that there are finite constraints on interpretation. And we also understand why those exist, and how they evolved, and from the perspective of political argumentation, there’s absolutely no excuse whatsoever in the 21st century to put forth Marxist doctrines as if they are the balm that is administered by the compassionate to the downtrodden.
Sorry.
Tried that.
Didn’t work.
We’ve got a hundred million corpses to prove it. And that’s plenty for me. And if it’s not enough for you, then you should do some serious thinking – either about your historical knowledge, or about your moral character.
I’m reading his “12 Rules” now. I’m going to finish it, but it’s unnecessarily verbose.
One of the reasons I won’t be boycotting You Tube any time soon. Well, until they ban him.
I have not read much of his stuff — he speaks very well (sometimes a convoluted stream of thought, but pretty clear and concise). It seems that his writing may actually be less accessible.
Nicholas Nassim Taleb, in my opinion, has the opposite problem. His writing is dense and packed with ideas, but on the whole I think his writing is clear and pretty accessible. But Taleb in an interview? I find him hard to take. His style of speaking just puts me off and makes me think I'm wasting my time waiting for him to actually make a discernible point.
Bravo Dr Peterson
Related are the above in that the agenda is aimed at the young and fiction educated, to avoid reasoning by appealing to emotional response. 'Someone' is raising the stakes ...
I sometimes think those flat earth youtube videos are a sort of misinformation and possible a test to see just how far you can go with absurd ideas and get people to believe them.
The comments are hilarious.
The man has clarity.
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Too many pages of the book fall under the convoluted stream of thought. I’m half-way through it, but find myself skipping paragraphs that seem to meander.
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Those and the “jet fuel hoax” where the claim is aircraft are fuel with compressed air. The stupidity boggles my mind.
With each passing generation of useful idiots that come and go marxism needs to be repackaged and marketed as something new and REVOLUTIONARY. A lot like those sleazy late night infomercials and free lunch seminars pushing the same old get rich quick scams as new ways to achieve instant wealth and lifetime income streams. Such as buying real estate with no $$$down down. Making a killing in stocks regardless of market conditions. Investing thousands in the latest snake oil while building a downline or some other unworkable MLM/pyramid racket. They’ll tell you other systems failed because they were implemented wrong by the wrong people but THEY have a proven system that works. (Those 4 deadly words)THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT. And the millenials, for all their pseudo intellectualism, like the hippies and yippies before them fall for this horseshiite like so many brainwashed little puppies.
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