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\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Anti-foundationalism<\/h2>\nTo purchase the entire Summit Lecture Series, Vol. 2 on DVD, visit <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.summit.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">summit.org<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\nJohn Stonestreet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17578 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/christianpodcastcentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/summit20210620-2-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\nThis is a very awkward time to be human, because it\u2019s a very awkward time to try to figure out who you are. Can you think of any kind of cultural expressions right now, in which our culture is expressing this kind of struggle to go in and out of identity and trying to find who they are and identity becomes this kind of fluid dynamic ever-changing always chosen and chosen and re-chosen sort of idea? Can you think of anything like that? Yeah.<\/p>\nTransgender.<\/p>\nThe transgender thing is clearly an example of this. We talked a little bit about this the other day. Yeah. What is identity, right? You can actually deny biology, right? It\u2019s irrelevant. What sort of plumbing you have, and you can just kind of become the gender that you want. So this is an interesting thing. What else?<\/p>\nFacebook.<\/p>\nFacebook. You know, this is actually important. You\u2019re the generation that can have 500 friends and be a terrible friend. You see what I mean? So now this is what we talked about yesterday was Sherry Turkle, right? She\u2019s talking about this whole sense of what does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be one of us? Yeah, so those are two anybody else? Yeah.<\/p>\nI think you\u2019ve got a really good point there. I think a lot of times it\u2019s because it gives them a sense of belonging, right? It gives them a sense of, they don\u2019t have a story that can actually embrace a group of people and it gives them some sense of stability in this. I think that\u2019s actually a really good point. So identity becomes this really unfixed thing. Okay. Let me give you one more. And that is of course, Eminem, the rapper, (laughing) the artist. So Eminem, has a really interesting line. He really characterizes this, by the way, how would you feel if I smack you upside the head and the headache went away, but you couldn\u2019t remember who you are. How would that make you feel? Tell me about your feelings. You wouldn\u2019t what? You wouldn\u2019t like it. You wouldn\u2019t like me very much. You wouldn\u2019t remember that I hit you (laughing). So, then think about that one did you? (laughing)<\/p>\nNever, never messed with a Christian school kid graduate. It\u2019s true, isn\u2019t it? We\u2019re slimy. We\u2019re completely hypocritical. Okay. We can get out of rules. Isn\u2019t that true? Who are Christian school kids? Aren\u2019t we good at getting around the rules? You know what I\u2019m talking about? Yeah. So I\u2019ve already, I\u2019m way ahead of you on this plan. How would you feel? Let\u2019s go back to that. The word here, is typifies essentially 1990s, grunge music, Kurt Cobain. Some of you are like, I\u2019ve heard of him. He\u2019s in the Smithsonian.<\/p>\nYeah. What typify, what adjective typifies that? It actually carries on, in a different form, but it was really kind of present in Kurt Cobain\u2019s music. What?<\/p>\nSpeak up. Misunderstood. He felt misunderstood all the time. Yeah. There\u2019s an \u201cA\u201d word for it. What is it? Angst. There you go, A-N-G-S-T just this kind of sense of frustration, loss of identity and that sort of stuff. I think you saw in a lot of Eminem\u2019s early music. Then he had a kid and he settled down, but he said something really interesting about identity too in one of his early songs. He said, \u201cI am, whatever you say that I am.\u201d It wasn\u2019t \u201cI am, whatever I want to be\u201d, or \u201cI am tougher than you\u201d or \u201cI am better than you.\u201d It was. \u201cI am, whoever you say that I am.\u201d Last, really old, outdated pop culture reference, because this is where post-modernism lands is in the nineties and now it\u2019s transitioned, but you get the the point here. We\u2019re dealing with the residue of that. Is this movie, the Matrix, what was the worldview of the matrix? Yeah.<\/p>\nNothing is real? Yeah, but so what worldview would that identify with? If reality, physical reality is an illusion, you got the <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a> kid who bends the spoon, right? So we\u2019re talking about east, kind of an Eastern religion, right. But what created the illusion of physical reality, in the Matrix?<\/p>\nWell, yeah. It was really intelligent robots out of control and that\u2019s like secularism on steroids or something, right? And then you had Neo, what\u2019s that word mean? New. And he\u2019s hanging out with Trinity and he\u2019s on his way to Zion. What\u2019s that sound like? Christianity. So when someone says, what worldview is the matrix? The correct answer is yes, it was all of them.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-17707\" src=\"https:\/\/christianpodcastcentral.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/summit20210809-2-336x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\nSo this is the next one. And this is really important that you get this, just write this one down. Some of you are going to have an aneurysm when you hear this, but write it down anyway. Ready? No worldview is true. So all worldviews are valid. No worldview is true. So all worldviews are valid. Now, some of you are thinking, what? \u201cHow can a worldview be valid if it\u2019s not first\u201d, what? \u201cTrue\u201d. And the idea in postmodernism is that everyone\u2019s trapped in their own worldviews. So the emphasis on worldview in a postmodern context, it\u2019s not on the world, it\u2019s on the view. And it\u2019s legitimate just because someone believes it.<\/p>\nNow we have like little goofy ways of saying the same sort of thing in our culture, when we trying to be nice to everybody. It\u2019s like this, every opinion counts. You ever heard that? Is that true? No. Some opinions are stupid. Some opinions should not count. Right? Some opinions are dangerous. How many guys here from Texas? Yeah. There you go. Some opinions deserve to be smacked in Texas. Know what I\u2019m talking about? Yeah. See, they\u2019re violent. They\u2019re like that.<\/p>\nAll right. Let me give you one more example of this cultural mood of postmodernism. We\u2019ll go to architecture. Anybody here want to be an architect? Any architects? Yeah, maybe? You want to build? You too? So you\u2019re serious about it? Because the guy behind you is doing this. I don\u2019t know what that means. Does that mean like, you might want to be an architect? Yeah. I hope you get a little bit more serious about buildings before you do that. \u201cMaybe I\u2019ll build a building. Maybe I won\u2019t.\u201d We\u2019ll let it go.<\/p>\nAnybody seen this building before? Anybody here from Ohio? Yeah? This is on the campus of Ohio State. You know what it is? It\u2019s your school. Is that where you go? Nice. What year are you, Yeah, it\u2019s a cool building. Isn\u2019t it really is kind of cool to watch. Right? It\u2019s called the Wexner Center for the Performing Arts. The architect said, \u201cit\u2019s a building, waiting to be a building\u201d. What does that mean? Do you know? Did they give you guys a tour of this or do you get to go, no? Do you have any classes in it? So you try to stay away from this kind of crazy postmodern stuff. Postmodernism doesn\u2019t work well in nursing, does it? Not at all. (laughing) \u201cWhat does health mean to you?\u201d (laughing) That sort of contradiction actually is illustrated in this building. It\u2019s an interesting building.<\/p>\nYou can see from the outside, it\u2019s got this kind of juxtaposition of all these different kinds of shapes and forms and that sort of stuff. And then you\u2019ve got this, that\u2019s kind of set outside. What is it? Any idea what you think this might, should supposed to kind of look like? Scaffolding. Yeah. When you see a scaffolding outside of a building, what does that mean about the building? Yeah. So this is the building waiting to be a building. It\u2019s a building waiting to be constructed, and who constructs the building?<\/p>\nEveryone that, yeah, the viewer, everyone that walks in it. Right. So you see all kinds of things here. You have shapes that aren\u2019t holistic, an arc that doesn\u2019t go all the way over. You can\u2019t really see it, but over on this kind of far side of the building, there\u2019s this whole landscape there, at least there was when I visited. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s still there or not, but there\u2019s a whole landscaped area that just has broken glass everywhere. And there\u2019s a sign that says, \u201cdon\u2019t walk on the glass\u201d. Actually, there\u2019s not, but there should be, because somebody could really get hurt. What\u2019s the idea of just broken glass instead of beautiful flowers and landscaping? What\u2019s the idea? Life is what? Broken. Life is fragmented. Life is not whole, right? When you look outside the building, you can see some references to history.<\/p>\nFirst of all, the building was built on a, I think a site or at least nearby a site where there was a factory. So here you have a picture of a factory kind of smoke stack, a sign of the industrial revolution. Industrial revolution was supposed to be a time of great progress and advancement. What do you think the architect is trying to say about that particular time period in history? Yeah, it wasn\u2019t all it was cracked up to be. What about this? What do you think this is a reference to? Yeah. Which era is this? Kind of medieval, a time of chivalry, of glory, of honor. What do you think they\u2019re saying about that? Yeah.<\/p>\nSo here\u2019s another one. CS Lewis coined this phrase called Chronological Snobbery. Not a great phrase, chronological, snobbery. What did he mean by that? What he meant by that, he was living in an era where everything newer was necessarily what? Better. Postmoderns have a different form of chronological snobbery. It\u2019s not everything. Newer is better. It\u2019s everything older was necessarily, what? Worse. Everything older was oppressive. Everything older was chauvinist. Everything older was homophobic, everything older was this. So a lot of times, for example, this has really impacted history curriculum. We\u2019re looking at old dead guys, not for what they brought to the world, but what they kind of did to ruin the world. All right. And then when you go in the building, it gets even more interesting. You see here, this is a column that doesn\u2019t go all the way to the floor. This is a cross beam that doesn\u2019t go all the way to the wall. Why are columns so important?<\/p>\nYeah, they support things. What do you think it\u2019s saying here? No foundation for, any guesses? In fact, here\u2019s the word, I\u2019ll give you the next one. I\u2019m out of room, but here\u2019s the word, the next characteristic of a postmodern. And this is an idea given to us again by Richard Rorty, it\u2019s called, ready, anti-foundationalism. Anti-foundationalism. 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