Philosophy should allow us to distinguish between good work and total garbage. Postmodernism has a mixture of both, because it has undermined our ability to make such distinctions. This is why feminist glaciology and the idea of chaining white men to the floor are taken seriously
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But...but....but...
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Is it subjective when a Formula One racecar driver can you tell you every single things about his car, and can go down the list and tell you what the good cars are and what cars to avoid? Is that subjectivity or expertise?
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But who is to say whether a concept such as "expertise" matters? Such a notion has an impositional character. Is the whole world meant to bow to the opinion of this "expert" and what he thinks is valuable? Why cant people just be themselves?

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No, of course not, but if he's good at what he does, chances are he might know what he's talking about. Just sayin.'
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I'm being facetious. I dislike subjectivism
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What an utterly silly argument. “If you have criticisms of French postmodern theory, it’s only because you don’t understand it.” Lulz
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Well, I didn't like it, either, until I finally sat down with these guys and "understood" them. Now I like them a lot. Whole different experience that understanding brings.
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And we have the advantage of living forever.
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Except that most of what they label ‘postmodern’ thses days really, really isn’t.
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Right, it's actually "Hypermodern."
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Being the dilettante that I am post-modernism to me is like literature. It raises interesting questions & makes me think in different ways. For the most part it doesn't offer me advice on how to navigate my life in a practical way but it's certainly been an enriching experience
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Yes- the problem seems to be when people try, counter-intuitively really, to reify pomo approaches and treat them as ends instead of means; both advocates and opponents seem to make this mistake.
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Yeh it's odd. We're comfortable with pluralism these days so why not just take what works and leave the rest behind. Obviously there's social & political implications at the sharp end of all philosophies, but for the average curious person po-mo is at least worth engaging with
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Wrong, some philosophy is right, some is wrong, and going all in on a dead end makes your life a colossal waste
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Postmodernism is for farmers and fencing contractors.
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I see your point because I know a little about it through my study of psychoanalysis and it generates interesting results there. I can see the validity of some criticism too, when it (postmodernism) is used to politicize science/academia
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No it isn't John.
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French postmodernism is not one thing. Deconstruction, for example, is actually Pareto’s Indifference Theory. It is excellent for marketing, but not much else.
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The only reason people call Deconstructuon “deconstruction” is because the French don’t understand marginal utility and university Econ professors (Keynesians) aren’t worth a dime.
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