Welcome to our first discussion on Logocentric! Joining us today is Dr. Stephen R. C. Hicks.
Dr. Hicks and I discuss Nietzsche's philosophy and its relation to critical theory, as well as its relation to entrepreneurs, collectivism, and critical theory. We also discuss figures like Kant, #Rousseau, Freud, Marcuse, and Marx and their philosophies relationship to modern socialist activist's philosophies that it expounds.
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As some of you have noticed...I haven't posted an episode in a while. I've committed to making my other entrepreneurial ventures work a little bit more before I start making regular episodes again.
Twitter has been really unhealthy and stopping my productivity. So I will mostly be posting on here and thinkspot.
So if you're here and you enjoy the conversations I've had, I'm so grateful for you being here, and don't worry I'm not finished. Just taking a productive break until I can get an awesome guest on here for you all!
On my recent video, I was lambasted for my alleged privilege and dismissal of anti racism.
I got to thinking what role privilege actually plays between people in a society.
I think really the “privilege doctrine” could be summarized as viewing people’s ability to move up the social latter as racially determined in a given culture. Where the majority demographic is viewed as preventing the minority demographic from climbing the social latter due to in-group preference.
If you’re white, then you’re “privilege” as a white person would mean that you have a given head start because you’re in a society that allegedly caters to white people, and any race outside that is viewed as marginalized, victimized, or oppressed groups.
I don’t think this ideology really explains why there are disparities between races on certain levels of measurement. However, to by-default assume that disparities equal discrimination is to fall prey to the correlation equals causation fallacy. Which this ideology seems to ...