Post-modernism is a virus.
Also, a religion.
Post-modernism, that vicious power play. Played by people who no longer exist.
Post-modernism, the movement that is, paradoxically, also all the other movements that have disagreed with it.
Also, a religion.
Post-modernism, that vicious power play. Played by people who no longer exist.
Post-modernism, the movement that is, paradoxically, also all the other movements that have disagreed with it.
"The book proceeds to give volumes of examples of how the various subfields of post-modernism are actively seeking to destroy the very foundations of Western civilization—the building blocks of society, logic, reason, & academia itself."
Oh the dogwhistling sound of #WesternCiv.
Oh the dogwhistling sound of #WesternCiv.
Let's set aside the sound of that whistle and reiterate that to date Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay have shown little understanding of the historical structures of the Western academy that they claim are crumbling and they say are so dear to them. See:
I chuckle about this reasoning: "Pluckrose & Lindsay are sympathetic to the 'emancipatory' sexual revolution of the 1960s. But they argue that modern academic intersectional feminism and their applied praxis in transgender rights movements have wrecked that emancipatory spirit."
Brought to you by the delightful school of:
"I'm a progressive fo sho but only the progressive forms of emancipation/politics/rights that had already been established before I was born are the true kinds! Everything after are inauthentic and distasteful kinds of progressivism!"
"I'm a progressive fo sho but only the progressive forms of emancipation/politics/rights that had already been established before I was born are the true kinds! Everything after are inauthentic and distasteful kinds of progressivism!"
The review is sympathetic to Pluckrose & Lindsay and argues they don't go far enough: "But P&L are also bafflingly opposed to funding cuts and reforms. They argue that the government controlling what universities teach amounts to creating a Ministry of Truth. That is nonsense."
A more thorough back-and-forth between Helen and the author of the above linked review here:
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