So often 'overstating the problem' means 'focusing on a problem I don't find the most important.' That's fine but I don't think we all need to focus on the same problems. Specialisation is good. Speak to what you know. I know pomo thinking in academia.https://twitter.com/opticon_pan/status/974579333795753984 …
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Referring to this as 'postmodernism' causes confusion & it is more accurate to think of it as a postmodern epistemological & ideological shift & its evolution & normalisation within mainstream social conscience but this needs much unpacking. I am trying to do this.
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@Thesadredearth recently described it as 'logocentrism.' I think this encapsulates the problem much more neatly & gets at the reversals which have taken place in our understanding of the role of language and of subjective experience & objective reality.https://areomagazine.com/2018/03/10/the-world-made-flat-the-logocentric-left-and-the-politics-of-provocation/ … -
People have found this difficult to read as it deals with the ideas in their own economy, using their own language. But whereas postmodern approaches seek to complicate, confuse & find aporia, this piece seeks to dig into & define the underlying mechanisms of the symptoms we see
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Mmm yeah, I think there are plenty of examples of rhetoric from the left which are a gift to the right's proponents. I think my own personal goal is to encourage a more charitable view of the ideas on the left in order to discourage extreme examples being accepted as the whole.
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Absolutely. I get that. I think this is certainly worth doing but I'd argue it is better to do this by admitting to and addressing the bad ideas on the left as a leftie. The argument that this does not define the left is much better made this way.
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The postmodern radicals are driving (if not stampeding) moderate left voters into the ranks of the centre and centre-right. We're already seeing this in countries like France and Spain, as the left dissolves into a mess of cainist factions obsessed with mutual loathing.
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