James Lindsay joins Obaid Omer and the Dangerous Speech podcast to discuss New Discourses, Critical Social Justice and its use of language, postmodernism as it shows in parts of today’s conservatism, his latest and forthcoming books, and more.
Here, James explains postmodernism and the methods of critical theories in depth and positions New Discourses as a project meant to counteract their dangerous influences on our society, politics, and culture.
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Is there really such a thing as a “new discourse”?
When was anything really new ever written or spoken in the Western world where we are now all quite literally trapped in our “mind forged manacles”.
As it is oft-times said all of Western philosophy is a collection of footnotes to Plato.
All of the usual philosophical talking heads are quite literally trapped in Plato’s famous Cave and merely talking about and/or describing the flickering shadows on the walls.
Or put in another way – the power-and-control-seeking ideology of scientific and political materialism now controls every minute fraction of human culture.
Scientific materialism has deprived humankind of all profundity of view – relative to the nature and significance of what we are as human beings, and of Reality altogether.
Scientific materialism is a global cultural program, which has so effectively supported the ego’s motive to achieve a perfectly independent state of self-sufficiency, that, as a result the human collective has brought itself to the point of global destruction and universal despair.