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[Anonymous No.11186463]

Why does this guy never take a specific stance on anything but instead makes vague assertions and theories?

Why does he fearmonger with "cultural postmodern marxism" when he seems incapable of ever elucidating on what that actually is?

How is anyone buying into this guy's 'philosophy'?

I mean, saying postmodern marxism is itself incredibly retarded seeing as postmodernism is about the breaking down of structures and marxism is about a collective building of structures.

like wtf?

btw the lobster analogy is the worst strawman ive ever heard

[Anonymous No.11186481]

>>11186463
he worked for a marxist think tank and unironically has connects to john podesta. he's a fake.

[Jeff Mangum Died For Your Sins !rAl8Mz2mp2 No.11186578]

>>11186463
>btw the lobster analogy is the worst strawman ive ever heard
What the fuck's being strawmanned in that analogy?

[Anonymous No.11186613]

>>11186463
The guy is a self-help guru, that's it. I don't find him to be interesting or intellectually stimulating at all but the simple fact that the left is so angry at him just for being what, a basic bitch conservative boomer?, makes me like him automatically.

Also, since we've already touched on the theme.
The blank-slate theory of human beings is wrong, genetic differences explain a great deal or a majority of the differences in traits between individuals (in first world countries), hierarchies are a natural byproduct of those differences applied in any setting that allows for even the smallest degree of greatness or success and as such they're a fundamentally good thing.

[Anonymous No.11186620]

>>11186463
He cant even take a stance on God, relay make you think .

[Anonymous No.11186621]

>>11186463
>Why does this guy never take a specific stance on anything

Have you even watched anything he has done?

[Anonymous No.11186622]

>>11186613
he fearmongers

[Anonymous No.11186627]

>>11186578
>>11186613

nobody denies hierarchies exist but he uses it as an analogy that implies STOP RESISTING

also an empty appeal to nature fallacy

[Anonymous No.11186636]

>>11186627
Honestly, I'm pretty sure he uses the lobster analogy as a way to make people remember that even the most simple life also has hierarchies, which means it is hubris to assume it's possible to abolish them completely.

[Anonymous No.11186669]

>>11186627
>nobody denies hierarchies exist
There's plenty of people on the left that say that all hierarchies should be abolished. Some of them are smarter and say "unjust hierarchies" should be abolished, but that's basically a tautology.
Even in communes that don't allow explicit hierarchies to exist you inevitably find de facto hierarchies.
>also an empty appeal to nature fallacy
Screaming "appeal to nature fallacy" is the sign of a brainlet. "natural" is intended not as "found in nature" but as "proper to the characteristic of the thing or being in question".

[Anonymous No.11186675]

>>11186613
>hierarchies are a natural byproduct of those differences applied in any setting that allows for even the smallest degree of greatness or success and as such they're a fundamentally good thing.

hierarchies are the result of power structures first and foremost

[Anonymous No.11186687]

>>11186669
nigga you don't even now what the appeal to nature is

[Anonymous No.11186694]

>>11186675
Power structures ARE hierarchies.
>>11186687
An appeal to nature is a type of informal fallacy where one tries to justify the goodness of something by saying that it is found in that way in nature.
I did no such thing, so there is no appeal to nature in my post.

[Anonymous No.11187245]

>>11186463
because hes a pleb

[Anonymous No.11187914]

>>11186694
>I did no such thing,
Not even him but you did it right here
>Proper to the characteristic of the thing
So it's not
>It happens in nature and is therefore good
it's
>It happens without willful intervention (nothing to do with nature or occurrence there, lol) therefore it is good