Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Silly postmodernists and their narratives
Why is it that people who have read postmodern rubbish and come from the Chomsky school of linguistic social analysis always talk about the world in terms of narratives being created and yet never see that if the world really is just made up of narratives then their analysis must too fall within the same sloppy nihilism? The selective acceptance of objective truth is a truly odd phenomenon isn't it?
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I have no idea of what you speak, but "a ... phenomena" is something untruthfully singular.
Hehe. I'd love to untangle this a bit but this may be an occasion when Dizzy blogs...and then thinks. :-)
What postmodern rubbish? Which objective truths?
They are epistimologically decrepid too.
Mountjoy, PhD
There are some wonderful anecdotes out there, like the one about the postmodernist who frequently babbled on about the 'inherent plasticity of meaning' and yet was fanatical about going after people who plagiarised him.
But behind the laughable, other-worldly silliness of postmoderist philosophy is a very dangerous worldview; and I think one that goes a long way towards explaining why (some) politicians can tell outrageous, blatant lies without feeling any guilt.
Phenomenon, Dizzy, phenomenon. Your point is most apposite, though.
Have no idea what you are waffling about.
You're not supposed to understand, it was deliberately opaque. Plus it wasn't meant to have been published from my phone, it appears I hit a wrong button, didn't cancel it, then went out. Was meant to be a much longer a post. C'est la vie!
Francis Wheen has a good chapter on postmodernism in his book ‘How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions’. He is particularly good on Derida and that crowd.
Have you read any Roy Bhaskar dizz? There is another way.
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