Tried to watch the Sam Harris-Jordan Peterson debates, but they're frustrating. Atheism is the world's cheapest route to seeming like an intellectual: Just respond to everything w/, "Yeah, but why believe in fairy tales? I don't, and I'm fine. Are you saying I'm not fine?!" YAWN
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I think that he has at least a useful understanding of postmodernism, because he isn't a lazy thinker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5F4oOlAK8w&t=1s … He condenses to the caricature for his talks. In that sense, he also caricatures his own work because it's too dense to open fully each time.
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He would argue (right or wrong) that the worthy intellectual project leads inevitably to the pathological activism by its nature. What's frustrating is that he doesn't seem to acknowledge that modernism needs to integrate the worthy intellectual project in order to move forward.
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Talking about what distinguishes them would be a great podcast series.

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