Technological advancement, the creep of Postmodern theory/philosophy out of its academic restraints and into the wider culture, and the built-in propensity for humans to find enemies where there are none based mostly on evolutionary biology are what created what we now see before us. Capitalism was always going to win, despite the decadent, self-centered tendencies that seem to have been born from the early 70s, so I don't think that can accurately be attributed to what you say it can. It was always inevitable that our society would find itself here eventually regardless of who the purveyors of what faction can be pointed to as ground zero. I do agree with you that the academics that popularized Foucault's and Derrida's teachings (among others) in elite US institutions can be blamed, but the rest is a byproduct of the other components seeing fruition and feeding one another surreptitiously. The rest of your analysis I think is spot on, and I confess to thinking almost the same things when I heard the clip.
Technological advancement, the creep of Postmodern theory/philosophy out of its academic restraints and into the wider culture, and the built-in propensity for humans to find enemies where there are none based mostly on evolutionary biology are what created what we now see before us. Capitalism was always going to win, despite the decadent, self-centered tendencies that seem to have been born from the early 70s, so I don't think that can accurately be attributed to what you say it can. It was always inevitable that our society would find itself here eventually regardless of who the purveyors of what faction can be pointed to as ground zero. I do agree with you that the academics that popularized Foucault's and Derrida's teachings (among others) in elite US institutions can be blamed, but the rest is a byproduct of the other components seeing fruition and feeding one another surreptitiously. The rest of your analysis I think is spot on, and I confess to thinking almost the same things when I heard the clip.