As an aside, when I was in Barcelona (March 1-3), it was repeatedly claimed by the audiences of the events I spoke at that a unified European culture would eventually emerge, which justifies the progressive Europhile position to stick with the ‘reform’ process and reject breaking up either the Eurozone, the overall EU or both.En enhetlig kultur i Europa om 100 – 150 år med den utvecklingen som är nu? De är helt bortkopplade från all verklighetsförankring. Sätta sin tillit till ett imaginärt Utopia, som kanske infinner sig om 150 år? IS och Talibanernas möjligheter att lyckas med sitt utopi-projekt är långt större.
Time horizons of around 100 to 150 years were mentioned.
"The slogan has been criticized by some for carrying comparisons to the America First Committee; however, Trump denied being an isolationist, and said, "I like the expression." A number of scholars (such as Deborah Dash Moore), commentators (such as Bill Kristol) and Jewish organizations (including the ADL and JCPA) criticized Trump's use of the slogan because of its historical association with nativism and antisemitism"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_(policy)
"The slogan has been criticized by some for carrying comparisons to the America First Committee; however, Trump denied being an isolationist, and said, "I like the expression." A number of scholars (such as Deborah Dash Moore), commentators (such as Bill Kristol) and Jewish organizations (including the ADL and JCPA) criticized Trump's use of the slogan because of its historical association with nativism and antisemitism"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First_(policy)
Through the IDW [intellectual dark web] lens we can start to see the ‘Green’ (postmodern/relativistic) frame clearly. Before we were IN it. Trying to describe the nature of ‘Green’ to someone still at that stage of development would be like trying to describe a third dimension to someone living in a 2D flatworld.https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom/how-...e-b60ae0b12b86
While the culture operated under the assumptions of postmodernism (no universal truth and the attendant nihilism) — these were unconscious assumptions as ‘just the way things are’.
Jordan Peterson even put his finger on this during the chat with Dave Rubin when he was asked why this was such an intellectually interesting time: “I’m hoping that what we’re at the end of is postmodern despair.”
So the IDW is by definition counter-cultural while the majority of the culture is still operating under Green assumptions.
This is what makes the phenomenon so fascinating — is that it is a genuine evolutionary step made possible through the speeded-up evolutionary process of the internet ecosystem.
It’s a new, yet early, integral counterculture, and the man who coined the phrase IDW, Eric Weinstein, is very pessimistic about the prospects for these thinkers. He is convinced that the media is so ideologically fixated around identity politics that many of the thinkers in the IDW will be attacked and ‘taken down’.
This isn’t to say that the thinkers involved are all ‘fully integral’ — we could argue for a while about, for example, whether Jordan Peterson’s antipathy towards postmodernism means that he hasn’t ‘transcended and included’ the ‘Green wave. But my argument is that the conversation itself is an emergent integral one, more than the sum of its parts.
Ideological fixation
The enemy — for the IDW — is the mainstream consensus of the media, as influenced by identity politics. Stephen Pinker has described identity politics as an enemy of reason and Enlightenment values: “If it is taken too far it undermines one of the greatest epiphanies of the Enlightenment: that people are equipped with a capacity for sympathetic imagination, which allows them to appreciate the suffering of sentient beings unlike them.”
Eric Weinstein, who like his brother Bret describes himself as being fundamentally on the left of the political spectrum, says: “The main branch of progressivism is the most dangerous branch of thinking currently found in the political spectrum. It’s one that begins from a substrate of thinking about oppression which is not a fundamental language. You cannot make a cosmology or an epistemology out of oppression and resistance. It leads to madness.”
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Many of the individuals have been ejected from their organisations in what looks like autoimmune responses reacting to their ideas. The shock of finding themselves at odds with a mob from their own group has drawn each of them out to the only place where long form, open discussions are happening — the internet. This new media has created spaces for them to discuss, debate and diagnose what’s happening to our societies and, in some instances, look for solutions.
Until recently, the mainstream media and the orthodoxies of government and academic institutions have had a near total blind spot to this phenomenon. And although the likes of Jordan Peterson have come to real prominence, it seems to me that their ideological programs and assumptions have caused a cataract where they can see a phenomenon but they can’t properly identify it. That’s partly why we get progressives, classical liberals, libertarians and traditional conservatives being labelled as alt-right fascists.”
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