Building Insanity: The Unstable Foundations of Social Justice Fanaticism

by Ryan Rogers

Most people were taken by surprise when we started hearing new and bizarre ideas pop up, like how all White people are racist, all men are sexist, men can have babies now, gardening is racist, and one-year-olds can be transgender. This book explores the origins of those ideas. You will trace the Marxist ideology through the Critical Theorists in Germany and the Postmodernists in France and see these ideas fuse with identity politics in the American universities. You will understand the origins of cancel culture, intersectionality, Critical Race Theory, radical feminism, and transgender ideology.

Genres: Nonfiction

276 pages, Hardcover

Published February 19, 2024

About the author

I received my bachelor's degree in psychology from Baylor University and was also in a philosophy-based honors program. I am currently a graduate student in counseling working on becoming a therapist. I write on the intersection of philosophy, psychology, mental health, politics, and culture. I hope to bring insight on complex topics in ways that are more easily digestible to most readers.

Reviews

[Pamela Mogen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Building Insanity is not only the title but the best summary of its topic of the blending of Postmodernism and Critical Theory. The first chapter, Enlightenment and Its Discontents, is the most cogent because it follows the course of what has, heretofore, been the manner in which the West has understood reality, language, and Christianity/Judaism's relation to logic and reason. The 2nd chapter, The Crisis of Modernity, takes a few steps away from that. Then the rest of Rogers's book proceeds to take deeper and deeper dives into increasing madness until the last chapter, Nonsense and Fake Nonsense devolves into pure gibberish. If you are still wondering how the presidents of UPenn and Princeton ever got their jobs, this last chapter will make all clear. It is a challenge just to read and not wonder if you were going insane as the downward spiral of example after example reaches unbelievable depths. The Academy is in deep, dare I say existential trouble.

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

For people like me, this book makes me wonder what the world has turned into and how does anyone know what is what. Many today like the ever-changing unknowns of what was once always believed to be hard and true. Sex and gender were easily defined; all humans are God's children, education is about reading, writing and arithmetic.

If you wonder how we got to where we are today, author Ryan Rogers traces history back through the people and and ideas that have slowly changed our society into what we have today. There are a lot of names and philosophies to keep up with, but follow the thread through to the end and challenge your own thinking if this book makes you uncomfortable.

Life was much easier when the obvious facts were not muddled up.

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[James Rooke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing Series

I’m just plowed through the first two books of the series, and it’s so thorough. Everything the books have said directly related to my own personal dealings with the members of the Woke cult, and that’s how we have to treat this: A religious movement being forced onto us by government and employers, and it needs to be declared illegal and unconstitutional.

Immediately going onto Book #3.

[Mark Harbour · Rating 5 out of 5]

The perspective that Ryan Rogers adds to the evaluation of the principles and values that seemed to be today's academia and some political perspectives is uniquely valuable given his earlier opinions as a more liberal leaning person.

His detailed listing of the factual wording used by many academics and those more oriented to "changing society for the better" are so incredibly full of garbage that it is difficult to understand how anyone with a small pinch of logic could accept and support their opinions.

It is helpful to understand why we should and should not get "on board" the specific people who are attempting to shift our society in the wrong direction.

[Glenna Turney · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has so much information that it is worth a second read. It helped me understand many of the current “theory’s” that are going around. The author backed his views with references and gives you links to verify.

*I won this ARC Kindle book from Goodreads. Thank you!

[AMAO · Rating 5 out of 5]

🔥MUST READ 🔥

[George J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

How did we get here?

This book is not an easy read but it is a must read if you want to understand wokeness and our mass psychosis.
Make science and critical thinking great again!

[Corey · Rating 1 out of 5]

This guy is sooooo bitter about the fact that he's not the most marginalised guy in the world it's very sad and pathetic