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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast #290 · September 22, 2022 · 1h52m

Douglas Murray & Jonathan Pageau | EP 290

Douglas Murray

Douglas Murray, Jonathan Pageau, and Jordan Peterson discuss hierarchies of perception, the nature of faith, and whether meaning is a self-evident truth or something intangible. Murray argues that Western civilization is losing confidence in its own values.

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A civilization that loses confidence in its own values cannot defend them, even when those values produced unprecedented human flourishing
Murray argues that Western civilization has entered a crisis of self-confidence: it no longer believes its own achievements (democracy, individual rights, scientific inquiry) are worth defending. This loss of conviction makes it vulnerable to ideologies that have no such doubts.
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Highlights

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The postmodern critique of grand narratives has not eliminated narrative but replaced coherent narratives with incoherent ones
Murray observes that the postmodern project to deconstruct all grand narratives did not produce narrative-free thinking. It produced fragmented, contradictory narratives that people hold simultaneously without recognizing the contradictions.
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