Dr. Stephen Hicks

Oh yeah, absolutely. It's the social construction theory that leads them to have that social understanding of power. But the power for them cannot be the positive sum

Oh yeah, absolutely. It's the social construction theory that leads them to have that social understanding of power. But the power for them cannot be the positive sum

kind of power that we're talking about because that understanding of positive sum power depends on we can figure out the way the world works and do science and technology and make the world better place and empower ourselves we can learn better nutrition to make our bodies more powerful i can understand that you're a rational person uh and you can understand that i'm a rational person so i have to treat you a certain way conversationally socially and so forth uh

kind of power that we're talking about because that understanding of positive sum power depends on we can figure out the way the world works and do science and technology and make the world better place and empower ourselves we can learn better nutrition to make our bodies more powerful i can understand that you're a rational person uh and you can understand that i'm a rational person so i have to treat you a certain way conversationally socially and so forth uh

kind of power that we're talking about because that understanding of positive sum power depends on we can figure out the way the world works and do science and technology and make the world better place and empower ourselves we can learn better nutrition to make our bodies more powerful i can understand that you're a rational person uh and you can understand that i'm a rational person so i have to treat you a certain way conversationally socially and so forth uh

So all of the positive, some social stuff is going to come out of that. But the postmoderns have cut all of that away. All you're left with is beings that are conditioned and trying to recondition each other in a social world that is totally social world. And what they then call power just is the influence or tools, including the tools of language.

So all of the positive, some social stuff is going to come out of that. But the postmoderns have cut all of that away. All you're left with is beings that are conditioned and trying to recondition each other in a social world that is totally social world. And what they then call power just is the influence or tools, including the tools of language.

So all of the positive, some social stuff is going to come out of that. But the postmoderns have cut all of that away. All you're left with is beings that are conditioned and trying to recondition each other in a social world that is totally social world. And what they then call power just is the influence or tools, including the tools of language.

that are now understood as to have nothing to do with the nature of reality, but as being socially constructed themselves. And tools of power. That's right. And so it becomes then necessarily a zero-sum, socially influencing and controlling game. And they reinterpret everything in terms of that.

that are now understood as to have nothing to do with the nature of reality, but as being socially constructed themselves. And tools of power. That's right. And so it becomes then necessarily a zero-sum, socially influencing and controlling game. And they reinterpret everything in terms of that.

that are now understood as to have nothing to do with the nature of reality, but as being socially constructed themselves. And tools of power. That's right. And so it becomes then necessarily a zero-sum, socially influencing and controlling game. And they reinterpret everything in terms of that.

That can take us back to the Peterson Academy courses, too.

That can take us back to the Peterson Academy courses, too.

That can take us back to the Peterson Academy courses, too.

i've done five courses yes three are in post-production two are okay and what are the three that are coming up one is on modern ethics uh so uh what has happened in the modern world is it has become more diverse more global more multicultural and more critical in some ways of traditional models that have come down to us so it's a much more wide open

i've done five courses yes three are in post-production two are okay and what are the three that are coming up one is on modern ethics uh so uh what has happened in the modern world is it has become more diverse more global more multicultural and more critical in some ways of traditional models that have come down to us so it's a much more wide open

i've done five courses yes three are in post-production two are okay and what are the three that are coming up one is on modern ethics uh so uh what has happened in the modern world is it has become more diverse more global more multicultural and more critical in some ways of traditional models that have come down to us so it's a much more wide open

world what's interesting about the modern world is how little we have uh what i think of as kind of homogeneous cultures where everybody by and large on the same philosophical that's the collapse of that meta narrative yeah that particular went away and so we have a huge number of people trying to work out what is good what is bad what's right what is wrong what's the meaning of my life how should we organize ourselves socially so what i did was uh chose uh eight

world what's interesting about the modern world is how little we have uh what i think of as kind of homogeneous cultures where everybody by and large on the same philosophical that's the collapse of that meta narrative yeah that particular went away and so we have a huge number of people trying to work out what is good what is bad what's right what is wrong what's the meaning of my life how should we organize ourselves socially so what i did was uh chose uh eight

world what's interesting about the modern world is how little we have uh what i think of as kind of homogeneous cultures where everybody by and large on the same philosophical that's the collapse of that meta narrative yeah that particular went away and so we have a huge number of people trying to work out what is good what is bad what's right what is wrong what's the meaning of my life how should we organize ourselves socially so what i did was uh chose uh eight