Postmodernism, Cultural Marxism, and the hi-jacking of academia - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-28T18:35:59Zhttp://4freedoms.com/group/argumentation/forum/topics/postmodernism?feed=yes&xn_auth=noHow the West Lost Its Culture…tag:4freedoms.com,2018-07-20:3766518:Comment:1973462018-07-20T15:51:47.087ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p><strong>How the West Lost Its Culture</strong></p>
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<p><strong>How the West Lost Its Culture</strong></p>
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<p>Intellectual impostures: Postmodern philosophers' abuse of science Paperback – 1998<br></br>by Alan D Sokal (Author), Jean Bricmont (Author)</p>
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<p>Beyond The Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture Paperback – 7 May 2009<br></br>by Alan Sokal (Author)…</p>
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<p>Intellectual impostures: Postmodern philosophers' abuse of science Paperback – 1998<br/>by Alan D Sokal (Author), Jean Bricmont (Author)</p>
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<p>Beyond The Hoax: Science, Philosophy and Culture Paperback – 7 May 2009<br/>by Alan Sokal (Author)</p>
<p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0199561834" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0199561834</a></p> Richard Lynn, Cultural Marxis…tag:4freedoms.com,2018-02-26:3766518:Comment:1937012018-02-26T01:11:26.053ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h2 class="entry-title">Richard Lynn, Cultural Marxism, and the War on Objective Science</h2>
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<h2 class="entry-title">Richard Lynn, Cultural Marxism, and the War on Objective Science</h2>
<div class="entry-meta entry-header"><span class="published"><abbr class="published-time" title="February 25, 2018 - 9:56 am">February 25, 2018</abbr></span><span> </span><span class="comment-count"> </span><a class="url fn" href="http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/author/andrew-joyce/" title="View all posts by Andrew Joyce, Ph.D." style="font-size: 1.17em;">Andrew Joyce, Ph.D.</a></div>
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<p>Richard Lynn is one of very few academics whose impact on their discipline is such that the field could scarcely be discussed without referring to him. In psychology, and particularly the study of intelligence, Lynn has carved out a dominant, innovative, and extraordinarily productive career spanning several decades. He remains prolific at age 87, and Washington Summit will soon publish what will surely be a future classic:<span> </span><em>Race Differences in Psychopathic Personality<span> </span></em>—- a volume that I have had the honor and great pleasure of editing. Lynn took his took Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and worked as lecturer in psychology at the University of Exeter, professor of psychology at the Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin, and at the Ulster University. He has published in such journals as<span> </span><em>Nature</em>,<span> </span><em>British Journal of Psychology</em>,<span> </span><em>Journal of Biosocial Science</em>, and<span> </span><em>Bulletin of the British Psychological Society</em>, and has served on the editorial boards of<span> </span><em>Intelligence</em>,<span> </span><em>Personality and Individual Differences</em>, and<span> </span><em>Mankind Quarterly</em>. On his retirement, and in recognition of his accomplishments and contributions, the title of professor emeritus was conferred on Lynn by Ulster University. During the last seven days, however, moves have been undertaken to<span> </span><a href="https://www.irishnews.com/news/2018/02/14/news/uu-students-calls-for-removal-of-former-professor-s-title-1255299/">strip Lynn</a><span> </span>of this title.</p>
<p>... cont. here: <a href="http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2018/02/25/richard-lynn-cultural-marxism-and-the-war-on-objective-science" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2018/02/25/richard-lynn-cultur...</a></p>
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<p><em><strong>Comment from Philip Smeeton</strong></em></p>
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<li>“And so since the 1970s, under the guise of postmodernism, we’ve seen the rapid expansion of identity politics throughout the universities, it's come to dominate all of the humanities — which are dead as far as I can tell — and a huge proportion of the social sciences ... We’ve been publicly funding extremely radical, postmodern leftist thinkers who are hellbent on demolishing the fundamental substructure of Western…</li>
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<p><em><strong>Comment from Philip Smeeton</strong></em></p>
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<li>“And so since the 1970s, under the guise of postmodernism, we’ve seen the rapid expansion of identity politics throughout the universities, it's come to dominate all of the humanities — which are dead as far as I can tell — and a huge proportion of the social sciences ... We’ve been publicly funding extremely radical, postmodern leftist thinkers who are hellbent on demolishing the fundamental substructure of Western civilization. And that’s no paranoid delusion. That’s their self-admitted goal ... Jacques Derrida ... most trenchantly formulated the anti-Western philosophy that is being pursued so assiduously by the radical left.”<br/> — Jordan Peterson, 2017[55]<br/><br/></li>
<li>“I will never use words I hate, like the trendy and artificially constructed words "zhe" and "zher." These words are at the vanguard of a post-modern, radical leftist ideology that I detest, and which is, in my professional opinion, frighteningly similar to the Marxist doctrines that killed at least 100 million people in the 20th century.<br/> I have been studying authoritarianism on the right and the left for 35 years. I wrote a book, Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief, on the topic, which explores how ideologies hijack language and belief. As a result of my studies, I have come to believe that Marxism is a murderous ideology. I believe its practitioners in modern universities should be ashamed of themselves for continuing to promote such vicious, untenable and anti-human ideas, and for indoctrinating their students with these beliefs. I am therefore not going to mouth Marxist words. That would make me a puppet of the radical left, and that is not going to happen. Period.[72]”<br/><br/></li>
<li>(The Left is redefining words and rewriting history and culture. Like the Muslims, the left have a different definition of words like peace and justice than what has been the norm in the West. They even erase the meaning of words that used to make perfect sense race, nation, and invent terms and phrases that are meaningless, like gender neutrality. They outlaw terms such as patriotism).<br/><br/></li>
<li>“Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing we cannot see is culture, in its intrapsychic or internal manifestation. The thing we do not understand is the chaos that gave rise to culture. If the structure of culture is disrupted, unwittingly, chaos returns. We will do anything — anything — to defend ourselves against that return”.<br/> — Jordan Peterson, 1998 (Descensus ad Inferos)[22]</li>
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<p>(The Left is causing chaos with their mistaken beliefs and ideals that conflict with reality and reason).</p>
<p><a rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Peterson</a></p> This guy's tweets are being p…tag:4freedoms.com,2018-02-25:3766518:Comment:1939032018-02-25T23:12:59.152ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>This guy's tweets are being promoted by someone I used to interact with on Twitter (a software developer and economist, who now blames the Joos, so I no longer interact with him but keep an eye on him). <a href="https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/966389753221332992" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/966389753221332992</a></p>
<p>What gets me is that it must have been 2011 or 2012 when I was telling people to take the Alinsky rules and use them against the Left. Five years…</p>
<p>This guy's tweets are being promoted by someone I used to interact with on Twitter (a software developer and economist, who now blames the Joos, so I no longer interact with him but keep an eye on him). <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/966389753221332992">https://twitter.com/hradzka/status/966389753221332992</a></p>
<p>What gets me is that it must have been 2011 or 2012 when I was telling people to take the Alinsky rules and use them against the Left. Five years later, others are waking up to this idea. <br/><br/>That guy in the tweet gets that our Resistance movement has no infrastructure. People like Sam Francis were telling us things 20 years ago that people are only discovering now. But Sam Francis was also an advocate of Burnham, and Burnham was only serving as a conduit for what the anti-elitists were saying 100 years ago. I see people nowadays repeating things from The Road To Serfdom, and they are revelations to an audience..</p>
<p>It's not like Gramsci's prison notebooks were hidden tracts. By the 1980s you could find them translated into English in paperback, available in many bookshops. No one listened. We don't have 50 years to start a march back through the institutions (even if we had the money and the infrastructure the Left had 50 years ago).</p>
<p>On the whole, people who aren't Leftists just take the easy route. They move away from the problem. Which is why there's white flight in the US and the UK. They don't look at why democracy fails (and it's been failing for the same reasons for a century): elites take control. The Left understands this and constantly snaps at the elite. The elite then do whatever is required to stop the current snapping of the Left.</p>
<p>As Hines says, for the Right (i.e. all those not some descendant of Marxism):</p>
<p><em>It can’t possibly be that there’s work we need to do, work that we’ve been neglecting because we don’t understand how it works and we’re lazy. That’s unthinkable. Well, think it. Because it’s true.</em></p>
<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://status451.com/2017/11/11/radical-book-club-what-righties-can-do/">https://status451.com/2017/11/11/radical-book-club-what-righties-ca...</a></p>
<p>Hines says:</p>
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<li><em>Small-run books on dead tree may be obscure, but they exist forever. </em></li>
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<p>I was advocating this approach 5 years ago. With Cernovich etc. now banned from "free speech platform" medium.com it seems only fools believe the claims of these platforms.</p>
<p>Hines' call to action, is it won't work. People on the Right want to be left alone, whilst people on the Left are zealous, missionary, interfering busy-bodies - their mission is to interfere in other people's lives. </p>
<p>Hines doesn't get it. If his rules showed signs of working, using violence the Left would close down any small successful group. And the state and the media would be on the side of the Left. We've seen this over and over and over.</p>
<p>So. Nothing will happen along the lines that Hines suggests. Instead, an increasingly angry and increasingly thwarted group of people will coalesce around the alt-right. And when that group is large enough they will agree that violence is the answer. And they will have the sunnah of Hitler on which to draw. They will see a pattern that worked (it took the empires of the US, Britain and the USSR to defeat Hitler).</p>
<p>Which brings me back to the software engineer. Despite all his skills, he apparently does nothing but read & tweet. In 3 years have seen no sign of him doing anything (even when offered some options). What I have seen in those 3 years is him move from being a liberal to being alt-right.I first got to interact with him as we saw a group of apparently reasonable young men on Twitter all gravitate to Jew-hatred and blaming the Jews for what's going on in the West. Now he's one of them.</p>
<p><span>another long post by Hines (where again he goes seriously off track), I found this comment far more accurate than anything else on his site:</span><br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" href="https://status451.com/2017/11/05/i-see-trad-people/#comment-5181">https://status451.com/2017/11/05/i-see-trad-people/#comment-5181</a></p> I've put the video on my Watc…tag:4freedoms.com,2018-02-25:3766518:Comment:1938932018-02-25T23:09:34.903ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>I've put the video on my WatchList.</p>
<p>Even if we had Takeover Training Camps (aka Mosques), I think we'd still be suffering Groundhog day. Our ideology has not even recognised that it has to have a core set of mandatory common beliefs, and then explicitly propagate them to its offspring.</p>
<p>I've put the video on my WatchList.</p>
<p>Even if we had Takeover Training Camps (aka Mosques), I think we'd still be suffering Groundhog day. Our ideology has not even recognised that it has to have a core set of mandatory common beliefs, and then explicitly propagate them to its offspring.</p> Comment by Joe
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><em><strong>Comment by Joe</strong></em></span></p>
<p>I've been spending the day watching videos by Samuel Francis (1996, 2000) and Thomas Di Lorenzo. What's shocking is that 20 years after Francis gave his talks, it's as if no-one has learned the lessons. That Prof. Peterson is just Sokal 20 years on (actually, less interesting that what Sokal did/said) might be different. I do see signs that people on the fringes are learning the lessons from 20 years…</p>
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<p>I've been spending the day watching videos by Samuel Francis (1996, 2000) and Thomas Di Lorenzo. What's shocking is that 20 years after Francis gave his talks, it's as if no-one has learned the lessons. That Prof. Peterson is just Sokal 20 years on (actually, less interesting that what Sokal did/said) might be different. I do see signs that people on the fringes are learning the lessons from 20 years ago. It's all a matter of whether or not enough people can learn these lessons and act on them, so they aren't forgotten for another 20 years.</p>
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<p>Incidentally, Dr. Francis was sacked from the National Review in the 1990s. In his 1996 talk, Francis lambasts the elites in the GOP and says that the GOP must die.</p>
<p>Nothing that is new and shocking today about elites/corruption/Islam was unknown 20 years ago. </p>
<p>But without a series of training camps (mosques) where a new generation can be made to memorise these teachings, it's like Groundhog Day.</p> Comment by Philip Smeeton
Hon…tag:4freedoms.com,2018-02-25:3766518:Comment:1939022018-02-25T23:05:19.142ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p><em><strong>Comment by Philip Smeeton</strong></em></p>
<p>Honesty s the best policy. (As long as it does not cost you your life). The Left have been lying to themselves with their impossible ideals. Never lie to yourself.</p>
<p>Their sin is defending the indefensible when they should have admitted that they were mistaken, or, in the very least adapted to a more realistic relationship to life, reality, the way things really are and work. Pigs still do not fly even though you can imagine…</p>
<p><em><strong>Comment by Philip Smeeton</strong></em></p>
<p>Honesty s the best policy. (As long as it does not cost you your life). The Left have been lying to themselves with their impossible ideals. Never lie to yourself.</p>
<p>Their sin is defending the indefensible when they should have admitted that they were mistaken, or, in the very least adapted to a more realistic relationship to life, reality, the way things really are and work. Pigs still do not fly even though you can imagine that they have wings.</p>
<p>If you ignore reality, or imagine it to be something that it is not, then it will bite you. Like imagining that millions of African migrants can be welcomed into Europe and it will make the world a better place. I think that idealists think in clichés, which is to say they do not think, they just reiterate high sounding but basically meaningless platitudes.</p>
<p>Look at the situation realistically and try to find a practical and reasonable solution to problems.</p>