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🗓️ 3 August 2023
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What is postmodernism? Why does it matter? Well, I'll tell you because it has been a cornerstone of many of the ideas and argumentation methods that have captured the modern Western mind. Today we will review its central holdings, some of its core founders and disciples, and perhaps most importantly, why it has been such a problem.
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0:00.0 | Do you ever feel like more and more when you try to have an argument with somebody? |
0:05.0 | It just goes to crap. |
0:08.0 | And I don't mean that you're not able to argue effectively. |
0:11.0 | I mean you give one of the best arguments you think you have. |
0:14.0 | You present evidence. |
0:15.0 | You present it in a clear, concise matter, irrefutable, that you have shown up with the receipts, you've used logic, |
0:22.3 | you've used reason, you've used empiricism, and the person just looks back at you and says |
0:27.1 | something like, well, of course you'd say that, you're a white person, or of course you'd say that, |
0:31.6 | you're this, or of course you'd say that, and you're sitting here wondering yourself, |
0:34.5 | how am I even supposed to respond to this person? |
0:44.6 | How do we go forward from here to having a good conversation, civil discourse, in order to determine whether or not there's any sort of common ground, when all of a sudden you find |
0:48.3 | yourself debating with a person that doesn't believe there's any such thing as common ground? |
0:58.0 | Well, if you've ever found yourself in that sort of situation and you've been frustrated by it, |
1:02.5 | well, that this episode today is for you because we're going to talk about some of the underlying philosophies which have made this kind of argumentation, this kind of frustration that we're all |
1:07.0 | experiencing so much more common than it has ever been before. |
1:11.4 | And we're going to go through and we're going to explain how it's gained in power, |
1:14.7 | what its effects have been, what its central premise is, |
1:17.8 | and how you can effectively combat it. |
1:20.3 | All of that and more coming up on this episode, powered by Good Ranchers. |
1:24.6 | Thank you to everyone in our circle community who helped us to choose this episode. |
1:28.9 | I know people have been asking for it for a long time, but the team wanted to make sure we |
1:32.3 | did it justice. |
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