POSTMODERNISM EXPLAINED

An interview with Stephen Hicks seems to give a very clear exposition of what postmodernism is all about:

“The contradictions they [The postmodernists] embrace are so obvious: “All cultures are equal, but the West is uniquely evil. Values are subjective, but sexism and racism are really evil. Technology is bad, but it’s unfair the West has more of it …… [Post-modernists are] driven not by a desire to discover or advance truth but primarily by the desire to hurt the enemy. If all you want to do is destroy, it doesn’t matter to you if the words you use contradict each other.”

Good Leftist stuff.

Roger Scruton makes a similar point:

Hence, in Rorty, Derrida, and Foucault, we find a shared duplicity of purpose: On the one hand to undermine all claims to absolute truth and on the other hand to uphold the orthodoxies upon which their congregation depends. The very reasoning that sets out to destroy the ideas of objective truth and absolute value imposes political correctness as absolutely binding and cultural relativism as objectively true.

Good old-fashioned Leftist hypocrisy, in short.

Thanks to Arthur Silber and Peter Cuthbertson for suggesting the links.

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