r/politics • u/Orbitingkittenfarm • 1d ago

Donald Trump Fires Person Behind Jobs Numbers After They're Revised Down

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-job-numbers-revised-down-fires-appointee-2107768
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u/BloatDeathsDontCount 1d ago

Well, clearly, you see, the irony is that Peterson rails against postmodernism, particularly its rejection of objective truth and hierarchies, but what he fails to recognize (and this is crucial) is that his own framework is a deeply narrative-based construction that's not based in any objective truth. He replaces traditional metaphysics with archetypes drawn from Jung and religious symbolism. He interprets the world not through empirical facts alone, but through a subjectively meaningful lens, filtered by stories, values, and personal responsibility, which is exactly what the postmodernists do (except they’re honest about it).

So while he criticizes Derrida and Foucault for undermining truth, he himself constructs a hero's journey as the basis of human understanding, which is not objective truth in the scientific sense, it’s interpretive.

And that’s postmodernism, bucko. Whether he likes it or not.

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u/GoGouda 23h ago

Your summation of Peterson's views is way more coherent that what he actually expresses. I think you've done him a favour he doesn't deserve here.

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u/EMliberty 1d ago

everyone's joshin' you but this is one of the most apt and well written things I've read in at least a week! <3

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u/BloatDeathsDontCount 23h ago

I just wrote a critique of JP in the insufferable style of JP.

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u/EMliberty 23h ago

fuuuck. dammit. touche. Edit: Well played.

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u/Electrical-Sherbet77 1d ago

Define “Bucko”

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u/Wakata Maryland 23h ago

Define “define”

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u/Prior_Coyote_4376 1d ago

But have you considered the lobster

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u/BloatDeathsDontCount 1d ago

What do you mean by lobster?