The three postmodern ideas that are dynamiting the inheritance of the Enlightenment

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Las tres ideas posmodernas que están dinamitando la herencia de la Ilustración

Intellectual, university and media hegemony comes from the French Revolution, it was bled of science and technological progress in May 69 and has been trivialized and turned into digestible mush in the 21st century using three blades as a turmix:

Three keys

  1. Avoid ideas that do harm because it is considered that there are ideas that can never be debated. In that sense, lately the left is beginning to censor more in the university than the right.
  2. Trust in emotions or political emocracy because the important thing is if you feel victimized, it hurts you or it seems aberrant, beautiful or vibrant.
  3. Propose that life is a conflict between good and bad, between them / us. In fact, In times of COVID we are polarizing more than ever.

These three blades have shredded the nuances and they come, fundamentally, from populism, the softer social sciences and the moral/reputational activism that derives from ochlocracy, as well as from pseduciences, the exoticism of traditional/oriental cultures, Luddism, social constructivism, epistemological relativism, the denial of human nature (we are hairless monkeys, wow), as well as the very popular postmodern and 2.0 versions of environmentalism, feminism and tribalism.

At least, in order to combat this gloomy pessimism, it is worth remembering that we have always been more or less equally bad and that, now, at least, on a percentage basis, there are more people who can save us, as I indicate in the following video:


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