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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. Seth Abramson (@ 🏠)‏Verified account @SethAbramson 19 May 2018
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      4/ But because severely retrograde conservative thinkers who clearly articulate what they believe are quickly shunned—"Let's return to the 50s!" is a rallying cry for dead-enders, and everyone knows it—he frames his attack on postmodernism as an evolution rather than devolution.

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    2. Seth Abramson (@ 🏠)‏Verified account @SethAbramson 19 May 2018
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      5/ I don't say any of this as a postmodernist. I'm not a postmodernist. I teach metamodernism at University of New Hampshire and, like many post-internet cultural theorists, I know that metamodernism is the post-postmodernism of the digital age. And Peterson is no metamodernist.

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    3. Seth Abramson (@ 🏠)‏Verified account @SethAbramson 19 May 2018
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      6/ The public's lack of familiarity with why terms like "postmodernism" and "metamodernism" matter to our collective day-to-day may seem reasonable—I'm sure many have already tuned out of this thread—but they're the very reason the alt-right is taking over America. They *matter*.

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    4. Seth Abramson (@ 🏠)‏Verified account @SethAbramson 19 May 2018
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      7/ And whether we will allow a charlatan like Peterson—who uses marketing techniques to obscure what he is—to disguise a devolution from postmodernism as an *evolution* from postmodernism lies at the heart of whether sane America will be able to withstand the alt-right's advance.

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    5. Seth Abramson (@ 🏠)‏Verified account @SethAbramson 19 May 2018
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      8/ For the purposes of this thread—because this topic and this debate matters to all Americans, not just academics—I'm going to be a bit reductive about postmodernism. I will not be capturing every nuance of a cultural paradigm that's governed American culture for a half-century.

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    6. Seth Abramson (@ 🏠)‏Verified account @SethAbramson 19 May 2018
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      9/ The first thing to know about postmodernism is that it's a cultural paradigm—it helps govern how people who grow up within it structure their feelings and develop systems for their logic. These structures and systems form a paradigm that determines much about American culture.

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    7. Seth Abramson (@ 🏠)‏Verified account @SethAbramson 19 May 2018
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      10/ The second thing to know about postmodernism is that it *inarguably* has overstayed its welcome. For reasons that should be obvious from the preceding tweet, *any* cultural paradigm begins to be destructive rather than generative if it maintains its dominance for too long.

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    8. Seth Abramson (@ 🏠)‏Verified account @SethAbramson 19 May 2018
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      11/ So when people on the Right criticize postmodernism, in the very broadest sense their critique is historically reasonable and well-timed rather than retrograde—it *is* time for us to advance beyond the cultural paradigm of the Television Age. We're in an entirely new age now.

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    9. Seth Abramson (@ 🏠)‏Verified account @SethAbramson 19 May 2018
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      12/ Beyond that, the Right's critique of postmodernism falls apart because the Right (especially the alt-Right) *isn't* hostile to postmodernism because they seek an *evolution* from postmodernism—but because they wish and have always wished postmodernism *never happened at all*.

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    10. Todd Hargrove‏ @ToddHargrove 19 May 2018
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      I have heard similar arguments against certain postmodernists: their views are not an evolution beyond the limitations of a modern scientific attitude - they have never appreciated the value of science at all. Have you read @Meaningness? Seems "meta-modern."

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 19 May 2018
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      Yes, explicitly so, with a link to @SethAbramson :https://meaningness.com/fluid-culture 

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        2. Todd Hargrove‏ @ToddHargrove 19 May 2018
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          Replying to @Meaningness @SethAbramson

          Would be interested to hear your take on Seth's thread on Peterson. The alleged "pre/trans" confusions are interesting.

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        3. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 19 May 2018
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          I haven’t got a coherent line on @jordanbpeterson. I don’t know his work in detail, and I don’t really understand where he’s coming from. There’s a long, branching thread in which I have some provisional things to say starting here :https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/996152747517923328 …

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          David Chapman @Meaningness
          My work is often compared with @jordanbpeterson’s. I’ve had trouble understanding quite where he’s coming from. This podcast made clear that yes, we do say similar things about many issues. I did want to “on the other hand” him sometimes, though. https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/995332885224837120 …
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