You could take a garbage book like Harry Potter and find archetypes that define Western culture if you really wanted to see them.
Underlined: if you define Harry Potter as garbage you either don't understand what it was written for or you're just a salty alt type trying to be part of a sub-culture by denying things.
Italic: That's because, tadaa, Harry Potter was written by someone raised by Western culture and thus stuck in the Western thinking. You bet you're going to find Western Archetypes in there.
I mean it is nice book for children I guess.
You could take a book written by someone raised in Chinese culture, you would still find them.
I'd also disagree that the Bible is just 'religious rules'. It offers a perspective that allows one to find wisdom in how one shall face the world. I also didn't say that the Bible influenced Western culture, I said it helps us understand it. By that I mean it's probably a good idea to know the story of Christ's Passion in order to listen to St Matthew Passion by J.S Bach. Or that it's also probably a good idea to know that the within the context of art, believers in the early Christian church would use certain signs like the anchor to show that they are Christians. There is a difference between influence and understand.
Well exactly purpose of religious rules is to help one find wisdom in how one shall face the world. Life rules is maybe better expression.
I kind of don't understand what is the purpose of him helping people understand Western culture, I feel like people in Europe that are well rounded already understand it and those who do not mostly are not interested and never will. I don't know how he could bring this knowledge to those people. Could you explain that?
I can agree with you in regards to his stance on post-modernism. I think most people view post-modernism as an ideology when in reality it's a description on what people are doing, (people losing faith with western modernity and beginning to reject it to replace it with values they have made up themselves) would be an example. However, I guess what he is eluding to is the people that start to believe in post-modernism (post-modernists) which therefore transforms it into an ideology of sorts. In essence, post-modernism is a form of uber skepticism deriving from modernism. More and more there is no longer a trust in institutionalized science and instead, structure is replaced by choice. People are starting to create their own form of logic and their own philosophies, an example of which would be transgenderism, the idea that an identity is now a commodity (you can choose what gender you are etc) and how the introduction of Bill C-16 is a threat to freedom of speech and therefore a threat to how we think. So that's sort of how I would interpret what Jordan refer's to when he talks about 'post-modernism/ists' and why he believes they are a threat. However, another way of interpreting people as being 'post-modernists' is not because they believe in post-modernism. post-modernism basically gives a prediction of the future, (people losing faith in western institutions and replacing conventional values with ones they've made up themselves), this is what is happening in Western civilization and therefore the people that are doing this are technically a creation of post-modernism if that makes sense. They are, therefore 'post-modernists', as they have become what post-modernism predicted. So that could also be what he means when referring to post-modernists.
Yes people ignoring scientific facts and most basic human tools like math is pretty problematic. I find (trans)genderism very interesting occurrence. People that support genderism are mostly people that are against gender roles and stereotypes (men play football, woman cook for example). I don't understand why they feel the need for social construct of gender since it has no purpose but to label people with gender roles, stereotypes and pronouns (since gender won't help a doctor healing his patient) which is what they are against. It makes far more sense to only have sex which is defined by science and let people live like they want to live, if a born man wants to dress as a girl let him but that won't change his y chromosome to x.
