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2017-12-23 Home Front: Culture Wars

Brilliant: Jordan Peterson talking about Postmodernism and defending yourself against it

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Posted by newc 2017-12-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 He drills down on Logos - which many have no comprehension on anymore.
I think this is one of the better conference minutes of his.

He is very prescient.

Posted by newc 2017-12-23 00:53|| 2017-12-23 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Please elaborate

Posted by Fairbanks 2017-12-23 04:16|| 2017-12-23 04:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Logos has 2 primary meanings these days, one is in Christian exegesis, Logos is God and "Word" - meaning the ground truth that underlays everything. In the beginning, the Word was with God and God was the Word (Christ is the Word).

Philosophically, Logos goes to that idea of ground truth, the basic facts, and logic that an argument is made on top of - the foundation for facts, and for truth. Liberals have a problem with this because they build their house on sand (relativism), which allows them to change at a whim. Demanding the ground truth of progressives and liberals confuses them because they have no answer - they are incapable of producing one that will allow logic to follow, because they have no solid basis, Logos, for their premise. The concept of ground truth, of absolutes, is so alien they cannot process it in many cases.

Its like trying to explain Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation and Kepler's laws of orbital mechanics to a social justice womens studies major. They will end up looking at you slack-jawed and stupid, then start screeching about emotions and feelings. The rocket equation doesn't care how you feel, either you produce enough delta-V and in the correct magnitude and direction, and you get to orbit, or you do not and instead fall back to earth. its numbers and math and physics. Emotion has no bearing.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2017-12-23 04:47|| 2017-12-23 04:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Down here ground truth is generally about range to target.
We try to not argue with liberals.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-23 06:58|| 2017-12-23 06:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Aside from the posted article, the stated "agenda and views" of the website are interesting. There is no quarrel with me although I've got a feeling CAIR and the current crop of statists might vehemently differ.

1. Islam is a religious political and cultural system. Its no more deserving of protection than that of Nazism or Communism with which, by the way, it shares a great deal. Islam is not a race and therefore criticism of it is not racist.

2. Regarding Irrational Leftism and its offspring, political correctness and moral and cultural relativism--The greater threat to Classical civilisation is that of irrational leftism.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-12-23 08:20|| 2017-12-23 08:20|| Front Page Top

#6 We try to not argue with liberals.

Especally in regard to the warped logic of logos that the liberals have turned it into.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-12-23 08:23|| 2017-12-23 08:23|| Front Page Top

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