Postmodernism is destroying our brains, culture and civilization

[Hamilcar]

Read and weep: https://twitter.com/real_peerreview

[garbon]

We already have Marti badly playing this role. Do we need to add another player to the pantomime?

[DGuller]

We already have Marti badly playing this role. Do we need to add another player to the pantomime?

Took the words right out of my mouth. 

[Valmy]

LOL. The standards for being a good man these days is pretty low. You never raped anybody? You did not abandon your kids? You are not in jail? You have a job? A++++ man. I would like to think my fellow guys out there for allowing the standard to be so low.

Also studying how nice people are in Nebraska seems humorous for some reason. Allies in New Jersey don't give a fuck.

[Grinning_Colossus]

The increasing esotericism of the social sciences really is an unfortunate development, though. I blame the demand for originality in master's theses. It forces people to be... creative.

[Valmy]

We already have Marti badly playing this role. Do we need to add another player to the pantomime?

Natural Science people mocking social science people is a long and proud tradition

I liked the one about how we should consider the conspiratorial rantings of the people when doing climate research instead of just science. Or how having ticks on your body is beneficial.

[The Brain]

Women and cows are NOT the same.

[Martinus]

We already have Marti badly playing this role. Do we need to add another player to the pantomime?

Yes we do.

[celedhring]

Postmodernism has been great for the arts. I'm fine with it.

[Valmy]

Postmodernism has been great for the arts. I'm fine with it.

I actually am pretty cool with post-modernism but what arts were you referring to?

[celedhring]

Postmodernism has been great for the arts. I'm fine with it.

I actually am pretty cool with post-modernism but what arts were you referring to?

All of them? Post-modernist mistrust of grand narratives and ideologies has unshackled a lot of the arts and freed them from conventional forms and content. In film it has been very enabling, from weird hyper-subjective South Korean dramas to Mad Max Fury Road. Loads of my favorite writers (Nabokov, Eco, Vonnegut, etc...) are post-modern too. Post-modern music can be a bit too precious though 

I consider myself to be post-modern when I write stuff on my own dime.

[The Brain]

And that's how we got crap.

[Valmy]

All of them? Post-modernist mistrust of grand narratives and ideologies has unshackled a lot of the arts and freed them from conventional forms and content. In film it has been very enabling, from weird hyper-subjective South Korean dramas to Mad Max Fury Road. Loads of my favorite writers (Nabokov, Eco, Vonnegut, etc...) are post-modern too. Post-modern music can be a bit too precious though 

Huh. I hadn't noticed that. Ideology seems to dominate art to a huge degree these days. Nice to hear though.

[Martinus]

I think the problem with postmodernism is that, whilst it started out as a healthy critique of accepted narratives and ideologies, it has led to relativism and then to anti-pragmatism and anti-empiricism of sorts - basically a belief that if something seems to be true, then the reality must be the opposite.

[crazy canuck]

I think the problem with postmodernism is that, whilst it started out as a healthy critique of accepted narratives and ideologies, it has led to relativism and then to anti-pragmatism and anti-empiricism of sorts - basically a belief that if something seems to be true, then the reality must be the opposite.

Agreed. It led to people thinking that protesting against neo nazis was wrong because hey, everyone has a right to march.