'Postmodernist theory tended to be a very blunt instrument, which resulted in the same general political points being repeated over and over.' Precisely. This is the stultifying orthodoxy at play. Those of us who value literature & scholarship generally must resist this.https://twitter.com/Gil_Ant/status/937280966602530817 …
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I really need to write a thing for my fellow liberal Lefties who think that the way to defeat the populist Right is to defend or minimise the postmodern, anti-rational, identitarian, SocJus ideas on the Left rather than to honestly address them & strengthen the Left.
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Well, I mean this is pretty much what I have been writing about in different forms forever when I have addressed feminism, academia, politics but I need to spell out the strategic need for this.
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In our manifesto, we wrote about the problem of existential polarisation in which people internalise the bad ideas of their own side in order to present a united front against the perceived existentially bad ideas of the other side. Same principle repeats all over the place.
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I'd add that being unable to challenge narrow intellectual orthodoxies means that you will eventually become an anti-intellectual, anti-expertise populism.
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