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John Anderson Direct: With Dr. James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose

John Anderson: Conversations

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The Dangers of Critical Theories

Cynical theory teaches people to find the problems, and literally everything they look at into believe that forces way beyond their control are determined of what will happen to them in their lives. This is a very, very crude and ugly way to start teaching people to see the world. And again, in a very negative light. So I think that it does damage on basically every level you can possibly imagine. They explicitly say that their goal of course is to to tear apart the seams of the social contract or the social fabric that defines societies. So if you tear the seams of society apart. I don't see how this works out in the end for the people who have to live and work and

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