It only undermines trust, not respect.
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Yay! You're still with me. I thought you might have stopped talking to me by now. Could you say a bit more about that?
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I was just busy with work

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Priorities, dear Fronx!
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They're undermined by the way they have been used to justify unfair reasons. Where's ethics in such a list? Removed as usual.
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It's the relationship with truth and reason, I'm thinking about.
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Why would a defense of postmodernism need to answer your claim of it undermining our respect? That seems like an appeal to consequence.
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That is what I am looking for defences of. The position that PoMo does not undermine those things.
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Aha, ok. Sadly, defending that position does not sound as fun as embracing it. :/
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Postmodernism as I understood it decades ago was about the limits of our ability to know things, constricted as we are by language.
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This can be useful in evaluating whether what we're asking are valid questions. For example: Why are unicorns hollow?
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It's a grammatically correct sentence, articulates a clear thought...but the question is nonsense! What if other questions unobviously are?
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But from that observation that we are limited by language, "academics" have extrapolated some really awful ideas.
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The idea that everything is subjective and meaning is always indefinite is the absolute worst sentiment that ever sprang from it.
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As a method of introspection or delivery of a context for rendering an additional perspective it is fine, but weaponizing it is disgusting.
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Waiting for Godot. The breakup of standard form and expectation allows us to analyze why structure works and what our unspoken norms do to
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Strong point. Deconstruction works as an analytical tool, but I think you have to eventually integrate the "form" again to gain anything.
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100%. Post modernism, properly applied, is a means and not an end. That’s why post modern plays are seldom commercial successes
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This is the incontrovertible proof in my opinion. You nailed it. The market doesn't reward people's experimentation.
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It does, but only to a certain extent. And the limitations are a necessary function of the form of postmodernism. I.e. rubber MUST meet road
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Eventually or what we’re talking about is a tire in name only
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