“The central postmodernist claim seems to me that because there’s a near infinite number of ways to interpret a complex set of phenomena, which actually happens to be the case.
You can’t make a case that any of those modes of interpretation are canonical. And so, if they’re not canonical, and if that canonical element isn’t based in some kind of reality, then it serves some other master.
And so The Master that it hypothetically serves for the postmodernists is NOTHING BUT POWER because that seems to be EVERYTHING They believe in.
They don’t BELIEVE in Competence.
They don’t BELIEVE in Authority.
They don’t seem to believe in an Objective World, because everything is LANGUAGE-MEDIATED.
So it’s an extraordinarily cynical perspective: that because there’s an infinite number of interpretations, none of them are canonical.
You can attribute everything to Power and Dominance.
It’s a Radical Relativism."
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