Konstantin Kisin

It's the fault of the system.

And what we need actually is a radical overhaul.

And it's also as well, not only do we not encourage kids and young people to think critically, we also fetishize emotions.

So if you're having a debate and you say something that I profoundly disagree with, or you criticize a point and I get offended because I hold that point dear, suddenly it becomes acceptable to be offended or angry or upset.

And I'm the one in the right and you're the one in the wrong.

You know, when I got taught postmodernism at university, I remember just sitting there and going, this doesn't make sense.

That's literally what I thought.

Cause when I asked them to explain post-modernism, they couldn't really explain what post-modernism is.

But the interesting thing that I find about postmodernism and why I think it's so prevalent today is that you can only really understand postmodernism if you're disconnected from reality.

Absolutely, because the more you investigate it, you go, oh, you have to be disconnected from reality in order for this to seem like it makes sense, which is why discussions on Twitter and social media are so postmodern, is because they're fundamentally disconnected from reality.

Ridiculous ideas can live in social media because they're not applied to the real world, because they're in the ether, they're in the digital age, if you know what I mean.

Absolutely.

Because we've had Adam Carolla on the show many times.

And one of the points Adam makes is like, the most sensible people are those people who work with their hands.

Like we can talk about postmodernism and go, oh, you know, the aesthetic beauty of

a banana nail to the wall as compared to a Caravaggio, but you can't go to your carpenter and go, what is a centimeter?

And that's why these skills are so important because they are a really effective tool against radicalization.

And we've seen people, young people particularly, be radicalized, radicalized into progressive leftist movements.

We're now seeing people get radicalized on the right.

Yes.