2/ Read a traditional history wth its kings and battles, and you could be forgiven for forgetting that half the population in question were women, some were minorities, others insane or handicapped, etc. They are mentioned, perhaps, but in the shadows Foucault mentioned.
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13/ Is this the deadly moral relativism everyone fears? In the hands of a dillettante, yes. But should Derrida be accountable for their actions merely for mentioning what is obvious once it's stated plainly?
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14/ Derrida saw deconstruction as a sort of linguistic hygiene; Language is always picking up grime as it moves with us through the world - biases, misunderstandings, etc - and deconstruction is an ongoing project of taking it apart to ensure that we are accounting for for it.
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15/ Peterson is engaging in a type of critical theory in his psychological reinterpretations of the Bible, insisting that the stories can't simply mean what they say, but must be reinterpreted to account for alterations in our understanding and use of language and concepts.
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16/ I don't say that you shouldn't judge post-modernism by its political fruits. It was probably inevitable that it would come into alliance with third worldism, feminism, communism, and other movements whose logical conclusions are disorder and insanity.
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End/ But the post-modern deconstruction of meta-narratives, incl the modern human subject, was equally inevitable in an age dominated by capital, technology, media, and advertising.
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(There is a lot more to say, but this is already a bad format for what I've managed so far)
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This is absurd on its face. If we can “cleanse” the language then we can state truths now with the understanding that future generations will be able to deconstruct their meaning in the future. Moreover, general themes remain constant over time. Religions prove this.
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