Defenders of the narrative. I work backwards from problems we see to the sources of specific ideas underlying them to better understand them https://twitter.com/premodernism/status/918505216147886080 …
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Because the main difficulty in tackling the problems that exist now is misunderstanding the thinking underlying them.
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You can't understand the current paranoia around language & focus on structures of privilege without understanding certain PoMo ideas.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I believe that understanding could and would have come about with very little help from postmodernist theory
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Replying to @guymit
Hmm? You think the shift to thinking in this way about social reality being constructed by language wld have arisen in another form?
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Replying to @HPluckrose @guymit
We've always had the tendency to think we can create reality with our stories but this is specific development in leftist civil rights ideas
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yes, but civil rightists’ achievements owe very little to postmodern theory, which has lamely toddled after events and muddied the waters
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Replying to @guymit
I agree.What I will argue in my talk on this was that PoMo ideas traded on the good name of civil rights & presented itself as the next step
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Replying to @HPluckrose @guymit
And believed it was. This is relativism + scepticism abt objective truth + paranoia abt language (all old) applied to new phenomenon.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And you dump the idea of truth at everybody’s peril!
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