Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Why Nietzsche HATED Religion" video.

  1. Always a joy, for me, when the YouTube algorithm recommends one of Joe's videos. Alongside Peter Boghossian - Joe is surely my fave Internet philosopher. I just now searched Joe's channel for "Intrinsic Instrumental rationality" but found nowt. I'd love Joe to do a video on Weber's concept of Intrinsic versus Instrumental rationality - because I think this is the defining issue of our age! It seems the university has now been entirely colonized by proselytizers for instrumental rationality. That this preference among our elites for instrumental reason had a detrimental effect on society - in that it corrodes the value society places on objective truth. It's now become hard to defend objective truth, because one is never defending it against a concept of subjective truth - as no one advances that as an ideal. Instead, pragmatists (AKA - ends-justify-the-means) thinkers will argue for pragmatism or even for a "utopian" concept of truth. This pragmatic version of truth will be "if it works for me, it works". The Utopian version of truth will be, for example: "I want to live in a world where trans-people have rights, so, ... when I say "people can be born in the wrong body", or "I can be any gender I want to be" - what I really mean by that it "we should be able to". In other words - activists will create the "utopian" societies they want to live in by framing the social conversation in their terms - not in terms of objective truth. Another example of utopian truth trumping objective truth are the Net Zero policies enacted by elites to stop "climate crisis" and "global boiling". Religion - as a pragmatic - ends-justify-the-means - project poses the same dilemmas for truth as activism.
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