Jordan Peterson & Ordering a Pizza While you Shit.

Listen to this episode from Nerds on Spotify. We're joined again by friend of the show Erik Haines (twitter: @integralrising) to talk about Jordan Peterson, post-modernism, conservatism and some other shit. It was a good time. Check us out at www.lowercasemagazine.com

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Welcome to the IDW part II or like Aly called it “The vortex of shit”. In this episode we have returning guest Erik Haines. Erik walks us how the IDW has captured the moment and driven the conversation regarding the culture wars.

There is a lot of anger and frustration and the IDW has been able to capture this moment and get the conversation going. This cannot be a bad thing by any means. The culture wars are buzzing and it definitely exposes people to a lot of ideas and concepts that they would otherwise not be exposed if we did not have this conversation.

The real issue starts to crumble when we look at the ideas the IDW presents and how they start breaking down once dissected properly. Take Jordan Peterson for example, he touches on very interesting aspects of purpose and meaning, but his views are also totalistic and a tad exaggerated. This pattern of thought is found in most of the members from the IDW, like the Weinstein brothers, Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin.

Erik is a big believer in integral theory and a big fan of Jurgen Habermas. He argues that these two thinkers provide a better map to navigating the culture wars.

Intrigued? Tune in and enjoy!

Books mentioned:

Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism

The End of History and the Last Man

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

A Brief History of Everything (20th Anniversary Edition)

Communication and the Evolution of Society eBook: Habermas, Jürgen

The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism: Neoliberalism, Post-Modern Culture, and Reactionary Politics

The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization

Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined