The psychological compulsion to attack the West allows postmodernists to hold contradictions without discomfort: they can assert absolutism while also asserting relativism, because as long as the assertions harm their enemy, truth and consistency don't matter.

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Unidentified Speaker — Stephen Hicks: Nietzsche Perfectly Forecasts the Postmodern… [KbA9ALOrHaA]

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“you can be an absolutist in your assertions and you can assert the relativism and it just doesn't matter as long as it's harming someone your enemy that's fine”

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Stephen Hicks: Nietzsche Perfectly Forecasts the Postmodernist Left— PhilosophyInsights
Created: 8/10/2026, 10:26:49 PM

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