The two biggest challenges to addressing postmodern thinking are 1) the left-wing academics who say it's already over.
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They don't see they've internalised the worst of it. Subjective knowledge. Cultural relativity. Group identity defined by power.
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And 2) the right-wing academics who want to make it all an expansion of Marxism and blur over the denial of objective knowledge.
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This enables them to combine two enemies at once & also benefit from society not being too rigorous about how to establish what is true.
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There seems to be a symbiotic relationship though... An enemy of my enemy and such. Don't you think?
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Not really. They conflate Marxism with postmodernism - say its just expanded to other groups- which means they miss the epistemic relativity
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Aren't current day Marxists using pomo concepts like valuing lived experience over objet reality, extreme skepticism of science and reason?
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No. Those will be the postmodernists who pay lip-service to hating capitalism.
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