wolvesechoes

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   by wolvesechoes 3y ago

   And yet, poorly build buildings are still being build, but at least now it is much harder and much more expensive for a person to build their own house, and for a small construction companies to compete with giant monopolies. Yay!
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   by wolvesechoes 3y ago

   It is ad hominem. Thing is, ad hominem is often a valid way of arguing, as long as a property or trait in question is relevant to the issue. Yet, as many other things in the internet discussion, it ended up as an easy way to label and disre
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   by wolvesechoes 3y ago

   Studying origins of our contemporary ideas is nothing new. Postmodernism is characterized by the cynicism in regard to those origins, and even more in regard to those ideas that came before.
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   by wolvesechoes 3y ago

   But *postmodernity* is a good term. Confusion arises because a lot of self-proclaimed intellectuals from our age used this term and *postmodernism* itself to beat the straw-man and make an impression of profundity. *Postmodern* thinkers did