'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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To fail to challenge narrow intellectual orthodoxies within academia is to play into the hands of the anti-intellectual, anti-expertise populist right. That won't end well.
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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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The left, by nature, is revolutionary and eats their own. They do so because revolutionary energy comes from the fringes and the “mere” reformers become cowed and intimidated into submission. Why “save” the left? Why not cheer on rational thought and (individual) human progress?
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I do! I co-wrote a whole thing about that. https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ … You could equally say that the right is, by nature, reactionary & its energy comes from fringes & moderate capitulate. In reality, we need both wings to fly & my values align with the left.
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And “left v right” is different in the US than Europe and confuses the conversation. The French Revolution and Spanish civil war represented EU left right divide. The “right” in America is very different
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Well, that is why we talked about both the US and the UK. Your Democrats are more like our conservatives than your conservatives. But postmodern left & premodern right ideas are consistent.
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