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My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.

Another one with just me today or I suppose technically with half a guest, but we shall get to that

a non. After last week's show about Thanksgiving, it occurred to me for

context. I missed the live journal phase of blogging. So I kind of got in at the

WordPress blogger era of it and and it was fun and it occurred to me towards the end. I'm like I have

I have more things I want to say and we will return to normal programming

next week and in fact there's some really good guests for the next couple of months a few episodes of which are already in the can.

But I wanted to do another chat because based on the response from last week, it seems prudent to strike while the iron is, well, warm anyway, if not hot,

with some of the kind of ideas we closed on and I briefly thought well I could make it

about Christmas if the last one was Thanksgiving but it's not it's slightly about reindeer and you'll find that out as we move on

through. But one of the things I wanted to come back to is that hills to die on I mentioned last week and right across the kind of more

interesting I guess pain points in culture. These hills are all downstream from some

foundational premises about reality that we urgently need to reconsider. So right across the board, so trans experience, anti-racism,

ecology, they almost universally work to a notion of personhood built out of Enlightenment materialism and even if that's sort of

dimly acknowledged the few attempts to get past it more often than not quickly dissolve into a kind of neo-platonic dualism which is not satisfactory.

So, and the premium members will be aware of this I have been wondering I guess what comes after the various posts so postmodernism post structuralism posthumanism and so on and I wonder if the placeholder and I underline that

word placeholder isn't some sort of neo-pre-suppositionalism, which is to say, have a look at these methods of validating knowledge and run them through, for instance, Aristotle's law of

non-contradiction and see what they transform into. So with social

constructivism which is that as an example, everything is apparently a social construct, except social constructivism, which needs to be a universal in order for the idea to work. So it fails Aristotle's law of non-contradiction.

Nevertheless, existing in a society, which in social constructivism, getting back to my first point, is defined as a group composed

exclusively of humans, we find that life ways are expressed differently.

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