@autolycus @Alephwyr

I mean I definitely disagree that you need to be "professionally" employed in academia or whatever to study and provide critiques of Derrida's use of differance or Foucault's assumptions re the grid or Feyerabend's arguments about method or to point out the wedge problem in the Strong Programme or whatever.

@autolycus @Alephwyr

I agree that Jordan Peterson is a fool and impressively lazy, that much is trivially obvious. But a lot of laymen critics of postmodernism nevertheless are a lot less foolish and often hit on good points independently reached by "professional" philosophers. Moreover it's important to note that even a fool like Peterson is often critiqued on things (like his analytic conjunction of postmodernism and marxism) that are actually quite well established and widely admitted.

@autolycus @Alephwyr

Peterson seems to get like 100% of his analysis from a Randian right-libertarian who wrote a somewhat problematic book, but there is some substance and engagement with texts even within that book, although it misses the mark in other places. What's funny is Peterson constantly misreads even that text in his lazy regurgitation of its critiques.