Yes, postmodernism is all about controlling the conversation via (amongst other things) confusing language.
You should read Cynical Theories. It does a great job of explaining the path from postmodernism's origins and meaningless, ironic wordplay to the canonized pseudo-religion of the social justice disciplines.
i'd really rather that you give me the highlights of Cynical Theories. see, i spent years in higher education as a student. (i was offered free rides to law school/grad schools a few times.) i've been made to study philosophy and sociology, criminal and constitutional law and some education. i managed to get a couple useless degrees because i knew what was coming down the road, and i refuse to engage in the delusions and the drama. i got lost.
i'm tired. i am being worn down like a present-day toddler who has no baseline. i am become the definition of "rigid." i cannot or will not process by my own reasoning any more nuance of babble and terms. my mind has been overloaded. and i come here for the humor and the shared outrage.
i just feel so completely powerless to change anything for the better, and i long for the day when words stop and action commences. at this point, i think that i would be thrown in jail for the violence i might commit on someone who uses the word "intersectionality" in all earnestness to my face. i don't want to put the energy into trying to understand anything that comes from modern theories. i want it all mocked and tore down. destroyed.
our minds are being cleaved and our souls tossed into a grinder.
I find that frustrations lessen the more I understand a problem.
Postmodernism's greatest defense is it's ability to hide behind words. That book shows you the actual thing behind all the words.
oh i understand the problem. it's just that the solution can only in blood. really. words and outcries aren't working anymore.
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