How to Stop a Cultural Revolution | James Lindsay

James is countering one of the problematic phenomena that arose from postmodernist philosophy. Although he is correct that the so-called “cultural revolution” is causing a real problem in society, he does not point, as he alluded to in his speech, to plausible solutions. In fact, he is confusing issues and concepts, just like postmodernists themselves. …

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Everything We Think We Know About Early Human History is Wrong | David Wengrow on Downstream (Novara Media)

David suggests that there were highly sophisticated and interconnected societies in pre-civilization era. If this is true, they must have been civilized societies transformed from tribal state through the same evolutionary process, but destroyed by some natural forces. This does not change the evolutionary process society transforms itself. Watch the Video

Understanding the Dialectic (New Discourses)

The presenter in this video attempts to explain what dialectics means, but considers almost every contradiction as a dialectical relationship. This is the major problem with postmodernism. For any contradiction to be a dialectical phenomenon, the contradiction must be part of the natural evolutionary process of society, class contradiction, or struggle, for example. Contradictions among …

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