#171 - Stephen Hicks - Socialism & Postmodernism For Dummies
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
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🗓️ 16 May 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends, welcome back. |
| 0:03.4 | My yesterday is Stephen Hicks and we are talking about post-modernism and socialism. |
| 0:09.5 | The words have been thrown around an awful lot if you've been involved in the internet |
| 0:15.3 | for the last few years, but I haven't got to clue what the underpinnings of them are. |
| 0:19.7 | I don't know what socialism is as a philosophical perspective. |
| 0:23.0 | I don't know why post-modernism believes the things that it believes or really even what |
| 0:28.0 | it believes. |
| 0:29.2 | I wanted to get someone on who does actually understand what they're talking about |
| 0:33.2 | so that we can all appreciate the words that we're using. |
| 0:38.1 | I think a lot of the time you just hear something on the internet and then assume a definition of it |
| 0:43.7 | and then just start moving forward with your life. |
| 0:45.6 | Imagine if you found out that tree wasn't the name for a tree and it was actually something else. |
| 0:50.0 | You're like, oh god, I've been calling it a tree all my life. |
| 0:52.3 | But anyway, yeah, so I spoke to Stephen. |
| 0:54.1 | I wanted him to explain it to us. |
| 0:55.6 | So this is socialism and post-modernism for dummies. |
| 0:58.7 | Really great primer, especially as we're about to enter the US election cycle. |
| 1:04.0 | The UK was so at odds with each other during the general election. |
| 1:09.1 | And hopefully the next time that someone decides to bring up politics and uses socialism or |
| 1:15.0 | post-modernism in a sentence, you will know what they mean. |
| 1:18.8 | In other news, this episode of the podcast is brought to you by Zion Radio by PBH |
| 1:25.7 | Now, the wonderful intro music that you've heard me use for the last nearly 200 episodes was put together |
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