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This is exactly why the term for what this article is criticising is "Critical Theory". Leftist postmodernists are damn good at critiquing things, and calling
by Der_Einzige 7y ago
This is exactly why the term for what this article is criticising is "Critical Theory".
Leftist postmodernists are damn good at critiquing things, and calling out why one should reject a mainstream position.
Of course, they forgot that the seductive belief in rationalism - specifically in the claim that some human recognize reality more correctly than others (and education is what separates the wrong from the correct) - is most likely the beginning of every from of hierarchy and oppression that they critique.
Why is it that Foucault - an author who writes all about how shitty schools are - is required reading in many undergraduate classes? If he saw people being graded for regurgitating his ideas, he'd be spinning in his grave!
The Academy is where critical theory goes to be neutered. And it must be, as it would be too subversive without tenured academics to keep the proles from direct action.
- xfs 7y agoWell, you have to master the language of critique before being able to critique the language itself.
- Der_Einzige 7y agoNo you don't. Lay-people offer great criticism against "language" without knowing the "language of critique". I don't need to say "Your epistemology is built upon a reductionist and totalizing conception of the self". I can say "There is no all-knowable truth in the world if there is no directly identifiable self"
- menacingly 7y agoThe language of critique itself is designed to reach certain conclusions and be blind to others. It's like a calculator with no odd numbers.