No, that's not it. We absolutely do need to fear bad ideas that gain great cultural currency & become a dominant in society. We need to reason with our own moral tribes when they become infected by this in both intellectual & political thought. https://twitter.com/cultofdusty/status/970414858045968387 …
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Postmodernism, a scalpel-like dissective mode of thought, escaped from the careful laboratory environment of pure philosophy to the 'interdisciplinary' fields where it was bastardized into a lazy & vicious form of criticism masquerading as intelligent discourse & leading nowhere.
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It got politicised and then condensed and simplified to make it user-friendly, yes.
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Did a deep dive on PM as a Philosophy major in the 90's then intentionally turned it off because it was too vicious a mode of perception outside of philosophical theory. I cringe whenever literary / crit theory / gender / soc studies people use it. Like toddlers with handguns.
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Good article. As I work through it, it strikes me how useful as an exercise in thinking pomo deconstruction could be, but how batshit much of what has followed has become. Chomsky’s critique of “Theory” in the humanities comes to mind.https://youtu.be/OzrHwDOlTt8
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