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Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth. For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Unlike a lot of his fellow atheist contemporaries,

who thought that moving past God would be an exercise in scientific and moral progress,

19th century German philosopher Frederick Nietzsche was willing to push the implications of that

as far as they could go. And then came French philosopher Michelle Foucault, the most widely cited

source in all of Western academia. A student and an interpreter of Nietzsche, Foucault went even

further in his imagination about what a world without God would look like, without moral

absolutes, without fixed human identity. And in the living out of what he believed, Foucault basically

was unparalleled. Foucault epitomized and encouraged the chaos of postmodernism in what he said

and how he lived. In his writings, many of which are thoroughly and intentionally unreadable,

he pushed the idea that education should be used as a tool of societal control, not just as a means

of learning. As he put it, quote, every educational system is a political means of maintaining

or of modifying the appropriation of discourse, with the knowledge and the powers it carries with it,

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