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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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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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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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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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
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Yes, explicitly so, with a link to
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Would be interested to hear your take on Seth's thread on Peterson. The alleged "pre/trans" confusions are interesting.
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@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 …David Chapman added,
David Chapman @MeaningnessMy 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 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Thanks!
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Can't speak to too much here, but I can say
@jordanbpeterson pitches a prescience psychology long abandoned reminiscent of an amped up psych 100 course. I watched a video and he brought up universal grammar. That has been largely debunked.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
Yes; setting all the political controversy aside, I’ve found many things he says scientifically incautious (if not outright wrong). To be charitable, he’s addressing a mass audience on whom subtlety would be lost, and teaches psych 100 professionally, so.
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That's the gambit you take for intellectual fame I am afraid. It's also a sign of a lack of intellectual honesty. Plenty of better ideas that need popularization not just recycled old ones. But hey isn't that what he is advocating for anyway
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