After Norway, France, Holland - anóther loss for Social Democrats in Germany. How much longer before they'll realize they need new ideas?
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Perhaps my take on postmodernism is influenced by JPB's take on it. I associate it with identity politics and an endless oppression story.
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Yes, but there's also the epistemic relativity and denial of objective reality which he glosses over a bit coz he does that too.
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Yes I noticed that in the podcast with Sam Harris. His 'get your act together' message is spot on. His fear of nihilism makes weird jumps.
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Yeah. And this from his book,Objective knowledge as constructed by narratives and affective knowledge (feelings) being more meaningful. PoMopic.twitter.com/koP9WSzg8J
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Narratives and myths are fine in their place. No problem to draw meaning & morals from them. But objective truth requires evidence.
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Pot and kettle in a nutshell. Perhaps his reluctance for objective truth is based on an idea that the west is in a narrative competition.
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He's this kind of woolly, subjective, metaphorical thinker. I find too much regard for him a problem if we want to tackle PoMo.pic.twitter.com/xW1emDUBMt
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I understand, and I appreciate you both for handing me arguments to counter pomo, even regardless of non overlapping magisteria at its core.
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It would need to do that. Follow the academic & political shift towards scepticism of science & reason that arose on the left & how this...
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...affected the dynamics of its relationship with the right & also the changes in culture more generally towards subjective truth.
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Thank you Helen. I've heard Jordan speak of the downsides of postmodernism and I'm curious what you would see as the upsides of it.
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I don't see any, I'm afraid. Some of the theorists also have some good ideas but the stuff defined by PoMo is unremittingly bad.
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Thanks, and agreed, I appreciate an honest and independent second opinion on this :)
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