For those that have not seen it, the actual lecture, to which the above video is the first part of the Q&A, is below:
This should be a link to a really important comment under these videos at Dr. Peterson’s own mirror of these videos by a grad student shocked at how deep the subversion of education is by Marxists.
In case the link doesn’t work, and it doesn’t seem to all the time, here it is below:
It is heartening to see a university professor opposing post-modernism. I am a post-grad student studying International Relations, and we are having post-modernism, Derrida, Foucault, Saussure, Lacan and others of that ilk forced down our throats, in mandatory classes. I am currently procrastinating from writing an essay on how post-structuralism is useful and positive (rather than useless, vapid, empty parasitic nonsense).
This is after my morning lecture on how Lacan is useful when looking at international politics. I am damn angry at this attempted indoctrination. An International Relations degree should teach us about International Relations, yet I’m reading Lacan discuss Oedipal urges and sexual fetishism, and Foucault on… I don’t know! (I’ve been reading Foucault for 6 months now and I still don’t know what he’s talking about). The post-modernists, I feel Lacan in particular, write obscurely to hide the emptiness of their work, and nobody understands it truly but pretends they do to seem intelligent!
I am also incensed in how post-modernists attempt to take their non-theory status and inability to prescribe anything and pretend this weakness is a strength. In my own time, outside of university work, I am forced to read up on issues such as the South China sea, Chinese economic slowdown, military-industrial complexes and US foreign Policy, etc- such things that were advertised as core to the course! My dissertation will be on power balance and the US-China, yet I am forced to read nonsense nonsense nonsense. I used to think that accusations of marxism in academia were a little extreme, but now I know that it is spot on.
Post-modernism, post-structuralism, critical theory. BLEH! I agree with Prof. Peterson, post-modernism comes out of Marxism and is dangerous to the West. It is parasitic and only seeks to break down, to reduce things. It is intellectual entropy.
In the book ‘A road less traveled’, Peck portrays God as an ideal for man to approach, and man must live life constantly seeking to improve, seeking to approach the perfection that is God. Conversely, the Devil is entropy, the leeching of energy from the universe and constant destruction, breaking down, deconstruction. I am coming to see post-modernism as an embodiment of this entropic devil, it does not seek to produce, to improve, to reach perfection,
it only seeks to destroy. If Adam or Eve was a post-modernist, we wouldn’t have reached cavemen level technology! Sorry to write such a long rant, apologies for the difficult to read sentences, I have been reading Foucault all day and my standards for readability have dropped correspondingly. Professor Peterson, from a student who does not want to be indoctrinated, thank you for helping me to find a way to express my revulsion with post-modernism. Your work provides a welcome counterweight to that of establishment academics. I didn’t want to be pulled into this academic struggle, I wanted to learn about Chinese economic slowdown and US military preponderance and so on, but they have wormed their way into all of social sciences. Therefore, I’m grateful for your talks, to arm myself and insulate myself against their ideology!
PS: I have not yet seen the Q & A, but here is my comment on the lecture:
STUNNING – A MUST WATCH – long but worth every minute.
A personal note:
I am German born and an unconditional supporter and friend of Israel and the Jews and my obsession is fighting Jew Hatred. When irritating folk address me – mostly condescendingly – with the unsolicited comments “it’s not your fault – you were not born then” (they often come from the same position of stupid ignorance like the ones who say “Nietzsche was a Nazi”) I have often to restrain myself not to be really really really rude and so, I dont explain, other than certainly not exchanging phone numbers with them.
Apart from my anger, I was never really able to articulate exactly WHY I am so “pro-Jewish”. This brilliant man, Dr. Jordan Peterson, does just that in the 2.5 minutes between Minute 4 and 6.30 of this video. One of those AHA moments!
As to the camera man of this video: the visuals remind me of the best French Films: Dark, stark, minimalist, expressive putting the torch on the LOGO. BRAVO !!!