I dunk on postmodernism for either being trivial or insipid, but its historical value for the left becomes sharply apparent whenever some marxist starts screaming about how their definitions of terms are 'the correct ones' and their political models are 'objective science.'
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The general trend among clout chasers is to rest on certain formulas of authority. They hate falsificationism for the same reasons they hate postmodernism and generally have about the same degree of substance in their criticism of it.pic.twitter.com/cin4hXWBhf
(The people with the sharpest pretenses to science are always aggressively interested in maintaining an authoritarian, and hence false, model of it)