Thank you for posting these overview videos. They are excellent and very elucidating. Especially appreciate you're covering thinkers like Ellul who are overlooked by most. The clarity, concision and lack of pretentiousness in your videos is refreshing and valuable, particularly on a forum like RU-vid.
The executive "team" of which I was a member in the 1990s regularly had off-site seminars and events focused on making sure we were all aligned with corporate objectives and as importantly ferreting out weak team members through staged "team building" interactions and personality surveys, like Meyers-Briggs. Well, it was a dog-eat-dog atmosphere, a fair amount of fakery was involved, and I hated it.
in some ways i wonder if the evolving woke culture is not prey to this idea of the technique taking over. in the effort to make sure everyone is able to express themselves, categorize themselves, resist harmful or negative language, constructs has technique taken over? is it really serving people? or are we now serving social justice?
That's an interesting thought. To the exent that woke culture is formulaic--and it is to quite an extent--there's room for seeing it like this. After all, what are people used to at this point? Coming up with a recipe, and largely a language-recipe, for dealing with social justice serves pretty effectively to smooth the gears in the overall system.
