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Dr. Douglas Peake finishes breaking down what Post-Modernism is a ways in presents in our everyday culture. This special episode is meant to help you refine your understanding of some of the major concepts we discuss on the Salty Pastor regularly.
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Ep 108
Someone approaches you at work and says, Hey, we're raising money for LGTBQ plus awareness. We'd like you to donate to our cause you think to yourself, well, that's not my cup of tea for whatever reason. So you politely declined. Then the people collecting the donations post on the company, internal communications board that you are homophobic and transphobic because you won't connect.
Postmodern thinking believes that if you don't affirm whatever anyone else wants to do, then you are evil.
Hello, Dr. Douglas Peake here with part two on what in the Sam hill is postmodernism. Now these are salty pastor specials designed to help you get up to speed quickly. So you get the most out of the salty pastor. So before you listen to episode two, on what in the Sam hill is postmodernism, be sure and catch the special.
Part one. So let's get back to talking about what is postmodernism. Now, the reason I'm pointing all this out is because postmodernism is really important to understand in your everyday life. Postmodernism is the primary way that all young people are taught to think in school. It's not so much what they think.
It's a way of thinking. The media plays a huge part in this as well. Most people think this way, whether they intend to or not postmodernism also creates what is true instead of discovering what is true now, why does that matter? Well, so what if a bunch of intellectuals want to sit around and smoke weed and drink weird tea, talking about this stuff late into the night?
Well, I agree with you, but these ideas actually have real world consequences. Here's a perfect example. There is a man by the name of who got his PhD from the university of Paris Sorbonne in the early seventies. He was highly influenced by French postmodern philosophers. Now he was from Cambodia and he returned home with his PhD and joined the Khmer Rouge communist party, and eventually became the number two or number third, man in 1975.
When the Khmer Rouge took over, he was the architect of what today. Historians call the killing fields. He. Masterminded the murder of over 1 million people of these are his own countrymen in Cambodia. That was between 30 and 40% of the population you see, since there is no actual truth, human beings are a result of social constructs only then instituting communism and creating the killing fields of Cambodia was a rational and good choice in his mind.
So postmodernism has real world consequences. Now you and I, we don't live in east Asia. So how does postmodernism affect you and me specifically today? Well, number one, someone approaches you at work and says, Hey, we're raising money for LGBTQ + awareness. We'd like you to donate to our cause you think to yourself, well, that's not my cup of tea for whatever reason.
So you politely decline. Then the people collecting the donations post on the company, internal communications board, that you are homophobic and transphobic because you won't contribute. Postmodern thinking believes that if you don't affirm whatever anyone else wants to do, then you are evil. Now, 75 years ago, we would call this behavior totalitarianism.
Today we call it post-modern enlightenment. Here's another example, a woman in her late twenties with a degree in English was writing for a publication. Her female editor was going over edits on a piece. She wrote and corrected her spelling of a word. She used hamster. Now the word hamsters, spelled H A M S T E R.
Well, the woman spelled it with a P in it, and she was visibly upset with her superior and believed she was being treated unfairly. When she was corrected, why? Because she learned to spell hamster with a P in it. So she was right and her editor was wrong. There was nothing wrong with the way she spelled the word.
This is postmodern way of thinking. Someone trained in this way of thinking is never told. I was never told they were wrong. Whatever they believe to be true was in fact true. That's a real story by the way, postmodern. Would also believe that the editor was evil. She did a moral wrong because the editor was imposing her opinion, her absolute truth on this young woman, the editor was non-acting.
What is commonly called a power play. She was an oppressor in that situation. Here's another illustration of postmodern thinking. The Oregon department of education provided training to elementary school teachers in a section of the training on how to teach mathematics titled ethnomathematics. It states that focusing on finding the right answer and showing your work supports a system of white supremacy.
This makes total sense to a post modern thinker. In 2010 in Queens, a woman was being mugged Hugo Tale-Yax stepped in to save her, the mugger, then stabbed him multiple times and fled. Now the most interesting thing about this story is that 20 new Yorkers walked by as he bled to death on the street. And they did nothing.
Some people took pics with their phones of him bleeding out. No one called an ambulance, no one dialed 9 1 1. And he ended up dying. Now postmodernism under nine undermines your ability to act courageously when things go wrong, because ultimately everything's great. There is no right or wrong. No good or evil people are more interested in filming a crime with their cell phone than helping someone or stopping it.
Here's another illustration of something. Very recent. Richard Scofield is an English host on a morning show called morning. "This Morning in Great Britain". After 27 years of marriage and two children, he came out as gay. The press, hailed it as one of the most courageous acts in modern history. Now, does it seem a little odd to you?
That a man had been married for 27 years and has two kids is now a completely different identity. This is the result of post modern thinking. Today the group of teen girls with the highest pregnancy rates are girls who identify as lesbians. Does this sound odd to you? Well, not to postmodern thinkers. I hope you are now starting to realize.
How this belief system is a part of how everyone has been trained to think in America today. Can you see how it affects people in everyday your life? Therefore, what it is? It comes to postmodernism. I want to encourage you to understand it because when you understand it, you can win any argument you ever get in because you know, the subconscious motivations, the mental patterns, the logical fallacies from a false premise that exists in postmodern.
When you understand it, it makes you a better employer. You understand how your employees are, have been trained to think when you understand postmodernism. It also, this may sound strange, it makes you a better lover. That's right. It teaches you to how to love people better because it allows you to be a better person.
You can be a better spouse. You can love your husband or your wife, because you have a much deeper understanding of what influence. And affects their way of thinking. It keeps you out of attacking them as a person when you have a conflict and it allows you to focus on the way of thinking that causes the conflict.
So let me wrap up by saying this, Dr. William Lane Craig, a philosopher. I highly respect says this. The idea that we live in a post modern culture. In fact, a postmodern culture is an impossibility. It would be utterly unlivable. People are not relativistic when it comes to matters of science, engineering, and technology.
Rather, they are relativistic and pluralistic in matters of religion and ethics. And that's where the battle is being waged with postmodernism today. It's about our sexual identity, our sexuality, what we can believe or our faith and what we actually believe to be right or wrong. So Dr. Douglas peak here helping you understand what in the Sam hill is.
Post-modern.