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The "truth era" wasn't the era when everything was true, but when we actually believed that there is such a thing as "the truth". I would argue that up until th

The "truth era" wasn't the era when everything was true, but when we actually believed that there is such a thing as "the truth". I would argue that up until the time when "Applied Postmodernism" took hold in some of our most important institution we could say that we lived in the "truth" era.

wwweston 4y ago
Postmodernism is the reckoning with the problem, not the problem itself. It recognizes epistemological difficulties and how different power interests or ideological preferences are often tied up with claims of "the truth." The people who dislike it the most tend to be either those who've been effectively manipulated by power interests, or those who find reckoning with the difficulty of finding the truth inconvenient.
- akiselev 4y ago
  > It recognizes epistemological difficulties and how different power interests or ideological preferences are often tied up with claims of "the truth." Down the nihilistic rabbit hole we go! That's this layman's understanding of where postmodernism almost invariably ends up.
  - wwweston 4y ago
    If you're equating the elaboration of difficulty with the declaration of impossibility, then the nihilism is inside you.
    - akiselev 4y ago
      That’s exactly what a nihilistic postmodernist would say.
      - wwweston 4y ago
        I mean, I guess your pithy comeback is a sentence someone could say if they were all in on posture and casual in their nihilistic contempt for semantics and substance.
        akiselev 4y ago
        We should start a podcast! No one will be able to tell if we’re serious, trolling ourselves, trolling each other, or trolling the audience. The essence of postmodernism is actually plausible deniability.
- adolph 4y ago
  > The people who dislike it the most tend to be either those who've been effectively manipulated by power interests, or those who find reckoning with the difficulty of finding the truth inconvenient. Excellent way to avoid engaging with an idea you might find disagreeable, a tip of a straw hat to you
- naasking 4y ago
  > Postmodernism is the reckoning with the problem, not the problem itself. It recognizes epistemological difficulties and how different power interests or ideological preferences are often tied up with claims of "the truth." Which is fine for "claims to truth", but it's not fine when people think this entails that there is no such thing as truth, or sometimes that all claims to truth are equally valid.

wwweston 4y ago

Postmodernism is the reckoning with the problem, not the problem itself. It recognizes epistemological difficulties and how different power interests or ideological preferences are often tied up with claims of "the truth." The people who dislike it the most tend to be either those who've been effectively manipulated by power interests, or those who find reckoning with the difficulty of finding the truth inconvenient.

akiselev 4y ago
> It recognizes epistemological difficulties and how different power interests or ideological preferences are often tied up with claims of "the truth." Down the nihilistic rabbit hole we go! That's this layman's understanding of where postmodernism almost invariably ends up.
- wwweston 4y ago
  If you're equating the elaboration of difficulty with the declaration of impossibility, then the nihilism is inside you.
  - akiselev 4y ago
    That’s exactly what a nihilistic postmodernist would say.
    - wwweston 4y ago
      I mean, I guess your pithy comeback is a sentence someone could say if they were all in on posture and casual in their nihilistic contempt for semantics and substance.
      - akiselev 4y ago
        We should start a podcast! No one will be able to tell if we’re serious, trolling ourselves, trolling each other, or trolling the audience. The essence of postmodernism is actually plausible deniability.
adolph 4y ago
> The people who dislike it the most tend to be either those who've been effectively manipulated by power interests, or those who find reckoning with the difficulty of finding the truth inconvenient. Excellent way to avoid engaging with an idea you might find disagreeable, a tip of a straw hat to you
naasking 4y ago
> Postmodernism is the reckoning with the problem, not the problem itself. It recognizes epistemological difficulties and how different power interests or ideological preferences are often tied up with claims of "the truth." Which is fine for "claims to truth", but it's not fine when people think this entails that there is no such thing as truth, or sometimes that all claims to truth are equally valid.