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Old 01-8-2019, 02:44 PM   #7
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Default Re: Speech, Power, and Responsibility

Sure, those in power should use their power responsibly. The better outcome would be for them to never have that power in the first place. Every example where power is wielded as a cudgel just shows another place where the power structure needs to be ripped apart. Rowling's failure shows us systemic hierarchies in media publishing to dismantle; Nietzsche's failure shows us systemic hierarchies in education and academic publishing to dismantle; Peterson's failure shows us systemic hierarchies in social media and search engine optimization to dismantle.

The problem is the power itself.

Or as Foucault put it (one of the "Postmodernist Marxists" that Peterson hates):

"Do not demand of politics that it restore the “rights” of the individual, as philosophy has defined them. The individual is the product of power. What is needed is to “de-individualize” by means of multiplication and displacement, diverse combinations. The group must not be the organic bond uniting hierarchized individuals, but a constant generator of de-individualization."
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