like, okay, sure: pomo philosopher: "there is no external source of meaning that could make one system of understanding inherently superior to another" pomo grifter: "all systems of understanding are equal in value!" pomo grifter: "science conspiracy made phlogiston not work!"
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contestants number two and three are obviously not great, but they don't make contestant number one wrong, any more than any epistemic claim has its value defined by the most ridiculous shit done using it as an excuse
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and yes, i did call Paul Feyerabend a pomo grifter just now, and i'm comfortable with that
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enh, are they really, though? these are people who love to talk about "being on the right side of history", and it's hard to see how anyone who talks like that hasn't ignored or rejected the most basic of pomo shit
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imagine thinking heroin revealed to you that you are Satan and deciding that what you should do with that knowledge is stalk some game dev on Twitter
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Should read "imagine clinging so desperately to trad bullshit **because** the basic insights vaguely grouped under "postmodernism" are a threat to you", but yeah, pretty much. The basic insights really are genuinely serious meaning and identity threats though.
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i guess i'm just so damn pomo that it seems obvious to me that if your meaning and identity can't survive contact with obviously true observations then they shouldn't survive
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....15 years from now?
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