imagine clinging so desperately to trad bullshit that the basic insights vaguely grouped under "postmodernism" are a threat to you imagine being so desperate for identity that you pretend those insights amount to anything prescriptive enough to call yourself a "postmodernist"
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That part seems obvious to me too. But it isn't that clear to me what kind of meanings and identity *can* survive that contact. The parts that clearly can are also deflated, unnatural things that take a tremendous amount of rational (and irrational) personal effort to sustain.
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all kinds of meanings and identity can, it just takes the balls to make choices and take stands without claims of eternal significance to give one the epistemic equivalent of Dutch courage
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I agree, but I also think you need bigger (different?) balls now. The systems and identities that can survive serious encounters with today's insights are esoteric, obscure, complex: lonely. Courage is the correct attitude, but I feel sympathy for those who won't make the leap.
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