/lit/ - Literature

>>16069904
http://www.williamapercy.com/wiki/index.php?title=Foucault_on_anti-pedophile_hysteria

>...There will then emerge a society of dangers made up of those in danger and those who bear danger. And sexuality will no longer be a form of behavior with certain precise prohibitions but rather a kind of danger that lingers, an omnipresent phantom that lightly passes among men and women, children and adults, and finally simply among adults. Sexuality will become the threat looming above all social bonds, relations among generations as among individuals; On this shadow, on this phantom, on this fear the power structure will assume control by means of a seemingly generous and blanket legislation thanks largely to a series of timely interventions that will probably involve judicial institutions supported by the medical profession. And there will arise a new order of sexual control: in the second half of the twentieth century sex will be decriminalized only to reappear as a danger, and a universal one at that. There lies the real danger.

He thought society in an effort to protect the vulnerable was in a process of becoming increasingly totalitarian... "sexual assault", "child abuse", etc, etc would just be the Trojan horse to institutionalize new forms of social control worse than the older cruder ones.

>>12452281
He wasn't evil but he was one of the most amoral men ever, totally unconcerned with either justice or society, a true nietzschean, he spread aids across the atlantic from san francisco to paris, he DESTROYED Noam Chomsky in debate, he's literally the most cited social scientist of all time

/lit/ used to adhere the Foucauldian school of thought until Peterson showed up

>>11017000
As a psychologist, he's fine. I like his videos on the topic.
As a self-help guru-- now that's the problem. His insights here aren't insightful at all, they're just Sunday-school tier truisms rebranded and marketed to an agnostic audience. Now, that's not a bad thing in itself either, the sad boy with a secular upbringing needs to get values from somewhere, but such an one tends to think: Genius! Which is far from true.
See >>11017040.

>>11011031
It's true he took LSD in California with some gays in the desert. You can find interview with the guys he took it with easily. A friend also told me he had acid correspondence or something with Deleuze but I never thought about it until now so no backing up of this one.

>>10196516

ITT

>>9967270

>>9952537

>>9946720
He starts off confusing inadequacy and oppression. He claims you can't fix oppression but there's a big difference for example between being ugly and others imposing their will upon you.

Pick up your suffering and bear it? You're going to die and a lot of things are unfair so noting really matters so just accept it? Yup he's just promoting fatalism here.

The postmodernist types are ungrateful because they won't respect people that just go to work and do things they don't like, kek

He mocks the idea of monetary compensation for oppression but what's his opinion on Jewish extortion to underwrite the existence of Israel since WWII? Let me guess... that's totally different lol

How do I escape wage slavery to live a minimalist life of reading philosophy?

>>9925656
>unironically petersonposting

>>9913263
>LARPer traditionally is triggered by actual intellectuals calling out the real nature of their worldview

Your reaction is completely natural, I would freak out too had I discovered that everything I believed until now was wrong.

the truth