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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 26

      Helen Pluckrose Retweeted Steven Pinker

      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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      Steven PinkerVerified account @sapinker
      Is President Trump a Stealth Postmodernist or Just a Liar? (With a comment by me) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/25/opinion/trump-postmodernism-lies.html …
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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 26

      Postmodernists believe that truth is socially constructed by discourses. There is no evidence that Trump believes this. However, he does seem to be constructing his own truth with his own discourse & trying, with demonstrable success to get this socially validated.

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    3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 26

      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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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 26

      '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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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 26

          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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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 26

          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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        4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 26

          “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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        5. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 26

          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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        1. Kirbmarc‏ @kirbmarc Jan 26
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          Especially since postmodernism itself claims that truth depends not on reality, but on your point of view.

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