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2mørVs & Jordan Peterson - How Many Million Do You Need?
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"You might think your culture's good for something, it gives you a hierarchy of value, it rewards competent people, it gives you a direction, so that you can climb up. They don't care about any of that, they don't believe that there's any such thing as competence, they don't believe that there's any such thing as up. This is all... Postmodernism wipes all of that out!"
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Anyways, what Solzhenitsyn did was
Take on this claim you often
Hear the radical leftists make
About communism, about marxism
They say: Well, that wasn't real marxism
It's like, okay, well, how many countries
Do you need to disprove your thesis?
How many millions people have to die
Before you might admit
That you're wrong?
Well, obviously more than a hundred million
Because that's the approximate total
That's probably an underestimate
But we'll be conservative
'cause adding another ten million
Doesn't really make that much difference
So, Solzhenitsyn took
That argument apart
Partly in his book Lenin in Zurich
And partly in The Gulag Archipelago
But groundwork had
Already been laid for all that by Nietzsche
Who knew exactly what was coming
In the 20th century
And by Dostoevsky
Who wrote a book called The Possessed
Back in, like, 1880
Where he outlined in painful detail
The precise mindset
That would produce
The Russian Revolution
Like, 30 years later, amazing
And Tolstoy as well
He knew what was coming
Made him suicidal
He wrote in his Confession
That when the conflict
Between the ideas of Russia
The traditional ideas
And the Enlightenment ideas
Sweeping in from the West
They- they- they blew
His worldview apart
Which was traditional-religious
Blew his worldview apart so badly
That he was suicidal
At the height of his fame
Tolstoy knew what
Was going to come, too
And so, it's not like Solzhenitsyn
Was the only person who could see this
Orwell knew it
Malcom Muggeridge knew in the 1930's
When he was noting that
The Soviets, given their idea of class guilt
Which sounds a lot like 'white privilige' to me
Or any other form of racism
They used that doctrine
To just round up all the Kulaks
They were the productive farmers
And shipped them off to Siberia
And then six million
Ukrainians starved to death
But, you know, they had
Too many Ukrainians anyway
So it didn't really matter
Anyways, back to the postmodern types
This all was revealed in such painful detail
That even the kind of
Closed-minded ideologue
That Norman referred to
Just couldn't quite muster up
The moral courage to keep
Beating the same damn drum
And so what they did instead
Being highly intelligent individuals
Was play a game of slight of hand
And transform
These marxist presuppositions
Into postmodernism
In the 1970s
And the idea basically was
Well, the working class isn't gonna rise up
And crush the bourgeoisie, because
Well, first of all they're getting rich
And that wasn't supposed to happen
Second of all it
It sort of seemed to be a catastrophy
When that occured, let's say in Russia
And so maybe we won't do that anymore
Because the working class actually
Isn't buying into this, either
Which is also a problem
You know, having internalized
Their own oppression
They wouldn't buy into this- into
The global myth of Utopia
Maybe it's 'cause they had some sense
It's certainly possible
But anyways, the slight of hand was:
Oh, well, fine, we'll just play a different
Oppressor-vs-Oppressed game
And we'll introduce identity politics
It's like: Okay, okay
You're not being oppressed
Because you're a member
Of the working class
You're being oppressed
Because you're a woman
Or you're being oppressed
Because you have an ethnicity
That's outside the main paradigm
Whatever that might be
Or it's because of
Your- your- your sexual preference
Or your sexual identity – whatever
Whatever places you in some manner
Outside the normative culture
And, you know, the thing is
The postmodernists, you know
You might think, well
Your culture's good for something
It gives you a hierarchy of value
It rewards competent people
It gives you a direction
So you can climb up
You know, because otherwise
Everything's leveled to nothing
And then why do anything?
They don't care about any of that
They don't believe that there's
Any such thing as competence
They don't believe that there's
Any such thing as up
This is all...
Postmodernism wipes all of that out
And so, when the postmodernists
Analyse a text
All they care about is
How it privilges the author
And who it impresses
And that's the only thing they regard as real
They don't believe
In grand unifying narratives
They don't believe
That there's a canadian identity
They don't believe
That there's an american identity
They don't believe
That there's a western identity
They don't believe
That value structures exist
Or if, they are- they're- they're replaceable
With some other value structure
They certainly don't believe
That they have any biological grounding
That there's any such thing
As a human being
It's all socially constructed
Which is really convenient
If what you wanna do is
Be the author of an
Entirely socially constructed
Utopia that you can run
It's all socially constructed
Which is really convenient
If what you wanna do is
Be the author of an entirely
Socially constructed
Utopia that you can run
That you can run
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released November 30, 2020
📖 Spoken Word by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
🔈 Mix, Mastering & Cover by Neochron
🎶 Production, Arrangement & Instrumentation by 2mørVs
Alan Watts has a deeply calming way of talking lightly about the most fundamental sekrets (sic!) of our universe, and we wove his talks about the web of life into this web of music. 2mørVs
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