In "The Great Realignment" @peterboghossian explains to @peternlimberg how rational fundamentalists and rational atheists are finding common cause against anti-rational political forces—as I semi-jokingly predicted.https://anchor.fm/intellectualexplorersclub/episodes/Peter-Boghoassian---The-Great-Realignment-e3vobd …
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Postmodernism is invoked as all-purpose backing for "you have to do whatever I want you to, because my feelings, facts be damned"; but the overall postmodern critique of rationalism is actually correct. There are no ultimate foundations anywhere.
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Can we oppose anti-rationalist political movements effectively while acknowledging that their grievances and their critiques of rationalist institutions and their esoteric epistemologies are partly justified? Wouldn't that be MORE effective?
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There was a point in the interview where both of them agreed with no qualms that (for eg) a black lesbian has all the power right now, which left me a bit aghast at the verbal slip. I think what they meant was, in the culture war, in an online argument, or a viral video /
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scenario, that person has an intersectional advantage and a white man will probably lose his job. But to say "that person has all the power" is just crazy. What checks can she cash, what lands does she inherit, what titles is she bequeathed, based on her attributes? /
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