The Peer Review is a series about the homogenous ideology and dogmatic culture that has taken over academia, and spread out into all other major institutions, and our culture at large. This ideology has permeated all of society and entered politics, and is represented by ideas like intersectionality, social justice, identity politics and the general "woke" culture, leading to everything ranging from cancel culture, to identity-based attacks rooted in perceived privilege, oppression and victim culture (and victimhood as social currency). It originated in the fields of critical theory and critical race theory, limited at first to the humanities and liberal arts, and slowly expanding into all other areas. It is now an institutionalized ideology itself, with corporate sponsorship, and achieved the very power it claims to critique as oppressive.
This is more of a rough draft pilot podcast attempting to introduce the range of topics this series will cover, or the lens in which it will view current events, cultural issues, and politics. Much of the ideas are built on the work of Professor Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay, the revelations of their Grievance Studies Affair, and the notion that intersectionality and "woke" ideology is more a religion or a cult infecting American society and culture and destroying Western society; starting in academia and permeating all other areas of society.
