It is a mistake to think of postmodernism's influence as jumping straight from the utterances of, say, Judith Butler, into the brain of the average person with a liberal social conscience. That is not how it works. The epistemological shift is much deeper & more diffuse.
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If I were to grab any one of you westerners who have never read Augustine of Hippo and ask you specific questions about your values & beliefs, you would be amazed to find how many of them trace back to Augustine of Hippo.
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Of course, they trace back further than that because he was knowledgeable in so much philosophy from so many sources and continents. But he brought a load of this stuff together & brought it to the west where it became established in religion, law, ethics, philosophy & developed.
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Something happened in France in the 1960s. None of the ideas were new but they came together in a radical break in epistemology which was initially ignored by the vast majority of the population but which evolved, became user-friendly & tapped into a liberal progressive zeitgeist
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OK, I am not going to write this book on Twitter. I am going to walk my dogs and get some work done. I need to go away for a few days again and focus.
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Sure. But i think trying to tie religious behaviors back to religious ideas would experience similar misdirection. e.g. "Carnival" - a very-very-catholic celebration - owes its nature to mainly-pagan influencepic.twitter.com/lwMAeJxqXX
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