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What happens with the postmodernist as 
they say,

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oh,
there's an infinite number of 

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interpretations,
and then the human part of them goes,

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okay,
well what am I supposed to do next?

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Then since there's an infinite number of
choices and the postmodernist says,

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well,
my theory can't account for that,

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and then they say,
well,

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back to Marxism,
and so that's why I think there's this 

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unholy alliance between the 
postmodernists and the Neo Marxists 

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because postmodernism is a is a dead end
from the perspective of applicable 

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wisdom.
It leaves you bereft and nihilistic and 

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that's not good because people can't 
exist without a purpose and so they 

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sneak the Marxism through the back door 
and and jump into this power landscape 

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for the reasons that we discussed 
earlier.

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So I really think that it's because of 
an infinite number of possibilities 

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interpretating things because I've 
always felt that it was really just a 

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response to capitalism.

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The capitalism is a very negative aspect
of our culture and society and that 

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there's gotta be some sort of an 
alternative.

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Marxism is a clearly defined alternative
that other people have subscribed to in 

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the past.
You could point to it,

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it's a structure that's already are 
already set up and it's romanticized and

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I think they adopted for that reason 
because it has a socialist aspects 

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attached to it and they looked at 
socialism as some sort of a thing that a

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regards equality and uh,
you know,

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some sort of an egalitarian.
Well,

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okay,
so we'd have to take two things apart.

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We'd have to take Marxism slash neo,
Marxist,

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Marxism and postmodernism apart.
So we could do that historically.

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And I would say that although there is a
reason for postmodernism,

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which is the reason we just discussed,
that the landscape,

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the infinite landscape of interpretation
problem,

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it's a real problem.

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If you look at it historically,
postmodernism actually grew out of 

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Marxism.
And so what,

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what,
what happened is that the Marxists laid 

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out their,
their,

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their theory about the human social 
environment being composed of a power 

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struggle between the privileged and the 
underprivileged,

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right?
The rich and the poor.

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And in its initial phases.
And that's a story that's partially true

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and it's got a lot of motive power.
Like the motive power is the romantic 

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motive power that you just described.
I get to be on this side of the 

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oppressed.
I get to be a war.

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You're for what's right.
There's the resentment element,

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which is that son of a bitch has more 
than me,

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so let's cut them off at the knees,
which manifested itself brutally in the 

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Soviet Union and then there's the 
ideological totality issue which gives 

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people a sense of security that took a 
vicious hit by by the late 19 sixties 

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because the murderousness of Marxism had
been clearly laid out as a doctrine and 

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that opened the door to this move by by 
mostly French intellectuals to to 

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develop the postmodern philosophy which 
has these advantages which we described,

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but also to use that as a screening 
tactic for allowing Marxism to transform

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into identity politics and so like.

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It's hard to disentangle all the 
motivations that are going on in there,

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but there's something about it that's 
that's truly intellectually 

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pathological.
Because you don't get to be a 

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postmodernist and a Marxist.
You actually technically cannot be both 

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of those things at the same time.
And the fact that most people are both 

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of those things at the same time raises 
the specter of just exactly what their 

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motivation is.
And then I would say it's this 

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resentment driven anti capitalism,
and there's reasons to criticize 

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capitalism obviously,
but it's this underground resentment 

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driven anti-capitalism that I think is 
one of the fundamental motivators.