Stefan Molyneux is everything I want in a philosopher. He is funny, politically incorrect and is hated by the establishment.
According to Big Tech’s bastion of facts and totally unbiased information, Wikipedia, Stefan is:
a Canadian far-right white nationalist, white supremacist, podcaster and banned YouTuber, who is best known for his promotion of conspiracy theories, scientific racism, eugenics, and racist views.
But wait!
There’s more!
Molyneux is described as a leading figure of the alt-right movement by Politico and The Washington Post, and as far-right by The New York Times.
What a sterling biography.
Speaking of Wikipedia, its cofounder was on my podcast and expressed disappointment with the direction it has taken.
When The New York Times—the publication that cautions against thinking critically—labels someone ‘far right,’ I become even more interested.
What is postmodernism?
Postmodernism is a philosophical and cultural movement that emerged in the mid-20th century as a reaction to modernism.
Meanwhile, modernism, which arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasised progress, reason and universal truths. It celebrated innovation, scientific discovery and the idea that humans could reshape their environment through technology and rational thought.
Modernism and postmodernism are vastly different.
Postmodernism:
- rejects tradition and normality,
- rejects objective reality (anything goes) and
- argues that words can be violent.
In other words, postmodernism is woke nonsense.
Conversation
Stefan breaks apart postmodernism for the silliness that it is. Furthermore, I am convinced that ‘far right‘ can neither be defined nor shown to exist. It’s a pejorative term designed to be nothing more than an attempt to discredit and silence the recipient.
Postmodernism assumes that you can extract human beings from their context and reduce them to nothing more than the consequences of the oppressive structures of their society. It’s wrong. Human beings have a nature, and we can’t be reduced to our politics.
Jordan Peterson
