The hilarious thing is that postmodernists represent a very, very small portion of Peterson's critics or ideological opponents.
It's all grand narrative social activist stuff, identity politics, critiques of colonialism and capitalism and so on.
Nothing remotely pomo about it.
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I haven't seen a single interview w/him being questioned on capitalism.
It's been brought up briefly in his convos w/Russell Brand & Philip Dodd though in each case the questioner hadn't prepared anything in sufficient depth to get around JBP's minimal precision requirements.
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has been trying to engage with him on capitalism. E.g. some comments on it here: alexanderblum.net/2018/02/though
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Succinctly put, it is doubtful if we'll have the time to figure out if Marx was right about capital or not.
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Earth, 2072. Ecological collapse has devastated the planet. Survivors live in shelters and artificially maintained corporate feudal microstates.
At long last, the economy collapses, the production of surplus capital having terminated with the death of the last human worker.
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Deep in the wilderness, hidden in a shielded crevasse, a stock market monitoring bot starts outputting a long string of error codes.
The last surviving Marxist sheds a single tear.
Fin.
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Hahahaha.
My favorite portrayal of capitalpocalypsr is the end of ‘Dollhouse’.
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I hated that time leap, but I have to admit it was a very clever way to handle an abrupt cancellation (if memory serves).
The last episodes of both seasons were set in the future. They did the first one because they thought the show was dead. Then they did the second one to tie up the open end of the first one.