/lit/ - Literature

>>15169868
>if you don't believe in a massive conspiracy of postmodern-neoMarxist academics hiding their true beliefs in order to infect the youth and subvert Western values you must be some sort of crazy person

>>14846997
The next paragraph of that braindead essay is him explaining how Derrida and Foucault were undercover Marxists who smuggled Marxism back into mainstream though
>So the formal postmodern claim, such as it is, is radical skepticism. But that’s not at all how it has played out in theory or in practice. Derrida and Foucault were, for example, barely repentant Marxists, if repentant at all. They parleyed their 1960’s bourgeoisie vs proletariat rhetoric into the identity politics that has plagued us since the 1970’s. Foucault’s fundamental implicit (and often explicit) claim is that power relations govern society. That’s a rehashing of the Marxist claim of eternal and primary class warfare. Derrida’s hypothetical concern for the marginalized is a version of the same thing. I don’t really care if either of them made the odd statement about disagreeing with the Marxist doctrines: their fundamental claims are still soaked in those patterns of thought.

>>13766469
they do both love soviet art

>>12978324
>should I critique Marx?
>okay... he wrote a lot of long books...
>shit I don't understand any of this...
>Oh, what's this? something written for illiterate factory workers in the 19c?
>well, this is the only thing I can read of his, so I might as well pretend this is the most important part
>even though I literally don't even know what the other parts are because I never read it

>>12967498
>>12967545
Reminder: this man has not read Marx

>spends his career railing against post-modern neomarxism
>only criticizes Foucault and Derrida
>only criticizes USSR
>bases his whole critique on two literal meme books by Hicks and Solzhenitsyn
>concludes it was all Marx's fault
cringe and brainletpilled

Lmao what went wrong

every lobster btfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHtvTGaPzF4

>>11424536
and why is he so obsessed with that Lenin guy?

>>11409272
>Peterson became an NDP activist
>socialist New Democratic Party
>Peterson became a socialist activist
what did he mean by this??

>>11336766
>I act as if God exists. Now you can decide for yourself whether that means - whether - that - I - believe in him... So to speak.

>>11313234
>"be objective don't get into postmodernism"
>recommends Dostoy and Neech
what did he mean by this lads?

>>11223377

How have you cleaned/beautified your room today? What dragons have you confronted?

>>11183664
>enforced monogamy
>he must be saying that women must be forcibly married to the incels, because that's what monogamy is about
why strawman him so much?

Will celebrity atheists ever recover?

To the realists. -You sober people who feel armed against passion and phantastical conceptions and would like to make your emptiness a matter of pride and an ornament -you call yourself realists and insinuate that the world really is the way it appears to you: before you alone reality stands unveiled, and you yourselves are perhaps the hest part of it -oh, you beloved images of Sais! But aren't you too in your unveiled condition still most passionate and dark creatures, compared to fish, and still all too similar to an artist in love? And what is 'reality' to an artist in love! You still carry around the valuations of things that originate in the passions and loves of former centuries! Your sobriety still contains a secret and inextirpable drunkenness! Your love of 'reality', for example -oh, that is an old, ancient 'love'! In every experience, in every sense impression there is a piece of this old love; and some fantasy, some prejudice, some irrationality, some ignorance, some fear, and whatever else, has worked on and contributed to it. That mountain over there! That cloud over there! What is 'real' about that? Subtract just once the phantasm and the whole human contribution from it, you sober ones! Yes, if you could do that! If you could forget your background, your past, your nursery school -all of your humanity and animality! There is no 'reality' for us -and not for you either, you sober ones -we are not nearly as strange to one another as you think, and perhaps our good will to transcend drunkenness is just as respectable as your belief that you are altogether incapable of drunkenness. ~ Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning

Will celebrity atheists ever recover?

To the realists. -You sober people who feel armed against passion and phantastical conceptions and would like to make your emptiness a matter of pride and an ornament -you call yourself realists and insinuate that the world really is the way it appears to you: before you alone reality stands unveiled, and you yourselves are perhaps the hest part of it -oh, you beloved images of Sais! But aren't you too in your unveiled condition still most passionate and dark creatures, compared to fish, and still all too similar to an artist in love? And what is 'reality' to an artist in love! You still carry around the valuations of things that originate in the passions and loves of former centuries! Your sobriety still contains a secret and inextirpable drunkenness! Your love of 'reality', for example -oh, that is an old, ancient 'love'! In every experience, in every sense impression there is a piece of this old love; and some fantasy, some prejudice, some irrationality, some ignorance, some fear, and whatever else, has worked on and contributed to it. That mountain over there! That cloud over there! What is 'real' about that? Subtract just once the phantasm and the whole human contribution from it, you sober ones! Yes, if you could do that! If you could forget your background, your past, your nursery school -all of your humanity and animality! There is no 'reality' for us -and not for you either, you sober ones -we are not nearly as strange to one another as you think, and perhaps our good will to transcend drunkenness is just as respectable as your belief that you are altogether incapable of drunkenness. ~ Jordan Peterson, Maps of Meaning

>>11121004
about as end game as it gets

>>11022881
this but unironically

just gonna leave this here...