2024-06-17
44 分钟Today we continue developing our understanding of the ideas that have led to what Mark Fisher calls Capitalist Realism. We talk about tolerant relativism, postmodern artwork, the slow cancellation of the future, Hauntology and Acid Communism. Hope you enjoy it! :) Sponsors: LMNT: https://www.DrinkLMNT.com/philo Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS Nord VPN: https://www.NordVPN.com/philothis Thank you so much for listening! Could never do this without your help. Website: https://www.philosophizethis.org/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/philosophizethis Social: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/philosophizethispodcast X: https://twitter.com/iamstephenwest Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/philosophizethisshow
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So I highly recommend listening to last episode on neoliberalism, because everything on this episode is going to build off of that one.
We're going to talk about how the hyper focus on the individual, the use of competition, is the main organizing principle of society, the primary goal of getting the government out of the way of people innovating.
How all this gets combined with postmodernism in a way that leaves us in a spot that Mark Fisher thinks is incredibly difficult to move away from if he wanted to and to just begin with an example of the type of instincts postmodernism brings about in people.
Let's talk about ethics for a second.
Maybe one of the most fundamental questions you can ask in philosophy.
What is it that makes something right or wrong, by the way, going to be sprinkling in some episodes here soon on ethical reasoning, hoping it'll be helpful to demonstrate for people what philosophy can bring into these conversations, which is a lot.
But the question for now is, what do you think the average person living in postmodern society would say if you asked him?
How do you determine what right or wrong is in a given situation?
And I think most people, a good percentage of specifically young people alive today, if you pressed them hard enough on it, would say that they think that morality is something that's relative.
They'll say, who am I to claim that one culture is better or worse than any other culture?
Their values make sense to them.
My values make sense to me.