While doing my Ph.D. in English at Duke, I jumped into post-modernism in good faith, & came out the other side w/ inclinations similar to yours. I think it's hard for postmodern folks to shake the meta-narrative that their position is some kind of final evolutionary form.
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Because they've internalized a narrative where there is this continuous linear progression to art & thought, one can only counter the post-modern position if one is retrograde & not properly evolved. There's no tether to anything other than this narrative.
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Post modernism for me always seemed to be the philosophical equivalence to evolutionary psychology.
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Unfortunately, I don't know enough about evolutionary psychology to grasp the comparison.
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I don't think there is one. Our psychology did evolve whether you believe that or not. Evolutionary psychology can be, and usually is, done well by evolutionary psychologists who are cautious about the significance of their findings which are based in empirical studies.
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Except there is numerous criticism towards evolutionary psychology for presenting many theories that can't be properly tested and not been empirically collaborated. EP suffered from too many looking at it as the answer to every question. Chomsky has a pretty good criticism of it
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That's why they're hypotheses. Evo psych can show certain things to exist and hypothesise about why.
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"You find that people cooperate, you say, 'Yeah, that contributes to their genes' perpetuating.' You find that they fight, you say, ‘Sure, that’s obvious, because it means that their genes perpetuate and not somebody else's..."
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If they truly understand, they might disagree with it, but the thing is: I've never read a book by any thinker who didn't have something useful to contribute. They all have something useful to contribute and dismissing others just cause they disagree with you gets you nowhere.
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Really? Wow. That's a huge claim. But I'm glad you agree that dismissing others because they disagree with you is a bad idea. It didn't look like you did.
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changed anyone's mind yet Helen ?
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On what? When? I gave a talk today on Cultural Marxism and two people said they'd changed their opinion on it as a result. This happens a lot. I also change my mind regularly.
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Cultural Marxism is not a thing anybody who thinks it is is a clown
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That was my argument. Not the clown bit coz I am more charitable.
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so you were saying the 'Cultural Marxism' conspiracy trope is just that = garbage ????
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ok - the way it was written didn't make that clear - Fair play
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“I’ve spent decades writing books on this so it simply can’t be a load of balls” is a pretty epic exposition of the sunk costs fallacy.
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How are you still so coherent after lots of wine?
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In vino veritas. In more vino is more veritas

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