Postmodernist and Marxist narratives are self-defeating because they prioritize power or immediate gratification over the sacrificial structures that sustain human reality.

“the story that is being put forth as canonical is one of power. That's certainly the case for the mad Marxists and the French postmodernists fit into that category or hedonic self-gratification or nihilistic collapse. And all of those are selfdefeating. The proper story is one of sacrifice.”

Postmodernism is a species within the Marxist genus that acts as a Marxist analysis of who gets to define the meaning of things.

“postmodernism is really a Marxist analysis of who gets to say what things mean”

Postmodernism transitioned from a purely deconstructive approach in the late 1960s to a politicized set of ideas about identity and power, often referred to as applied postmodernism.

“So we're looking now at something very different something very intangible that is coming in and it's saying we cannot access an Objective truth. Everything is created in discourses empowers us in systems of power”

Dr. Hicks claims that postmodernism is a destructive, nihilistic movement that challenges the modernist reliance on reason, objective truth, and individual agency.

“it is a well articulated negative outlook on most of life's philosophical questions and so we should expect that any movement that pushes buttons fundamentally like that should Get some extreme reactions the same thing holds when for me when I push back Against in my book some of these strong to my ”

Logan Lancing suggests that postmodernism provides an effective tool for Marxist projects by allowing for the application of conflict-based analysis to any perceived power differential.

“postmodernism is a really effective tool for them a tool that they didn't have access to so”

The postmodern claim that human social structures are based purely on the will to power is a reductive and cynical misinterpretation of reality.

“and which i do not accept which i think we can show to be wrong very clearly rationally philosophically”

Postmodernism is an anti-scientific ideology that rejects the existence of objective truth, making it a form of intellectual terrorism.

“postmodernism is a dreadful idea pathogen because it is it is intellectual terrorism it is a rejection of the epistemology of truth it basically says there are no objective truths”

He views the writings of Jacques Lacan as fraudulent and intellectually incoherent.

“Of all the French intellectuals that I’ve read, I think Lacan is the most fraudulent.”