Very interesting piece which covers a range of reasonable perspectives. Trump is not a postmodernist but he is taking advantage of an epistemological shift postmodernism was hugely influential in producing. I argued this at the Battle of Ideas. https://conatusnews.com/academic-roots-post-truth-society/ …https://twitter.com/sapinker/status/956501201981501440 …
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It is true that postmodernism was defined as a scepticism to metanarratives & MAGA is a metanarrative. But so is the postmodernist overarching explanation of social constructivism by dominant discourses (power). They are just competing ones
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'For Foucault, Trump, who seeks not truth but only power. would be an extreme example of what postmodernism opposes.' Yes, but postmodernism needs to stop crediting itself with the discovery that practices &institutions claiming to be based on truth are, in fact, focused on power
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Has there ever been a time when humans were not aware of this? Hasn't propaganda on the part of rulers & the pointing out of said propaganda on the part of dissident thinkers been part of every civilisation ever?
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The arrogance & condescension of 'You need us to point out that things assumed to be true might not be' is breathtaking. Gee, thanks. It's not like we have entire cognitive structures built to produce plausible lies & others built to detect them because we've known this forever.
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“In evolutionary terms, every time a population of individuals became good at detecting these liars, the liars became better at concealing their lies…a never-ending arms race” (McNamara and Trunbull. An Evolutionary Psychology of Leader-Follower relationsp11).
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We're not concerned that postmodernists want to interrogate what is true and how we know this. That's great. You didn't invent doing this tho & we're concerned about your epistemology and how it compares with other methods like, for example, science.
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He’s not a postmodernist. He’s a TRUMP Modernist! ;)
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Trump would have to learn what discourse is.
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He's a bit of a mixed bag. On the one hand he has been more up front about his thoughts than any other prez in history. He lies but it comes across as though he actually believes what he's saying, and sometimes they're not even lies. Good example are his remarks on Sweden.
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