When journalists attempt philosophy…
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by on 06-08-2008
Tagged Under : obama, usa
…disastrous consequences are likely.
Postmodernism is not what you Think
No dis to journalists but come on, leave the theorizing to the professionals. JK JK….sorta. I ran across at Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish one of the worst attempts to use postmodernism in an op-ed column. Now, mind you, most professional academics have no idea about postmodernism but Jonah Goldberg, in his column for USAToday yesterday, argues that Obama is a postmodernist.
First, let’s see how Goldberg defines postmodernism:
“PoMos” hold that there is no such thing as capital-T “Truth.” There are only lower-case “truths.” Our traditional understandings of right and wrong, true and false, are really just ways for those Pernicious Pale Patriarchs to keep the Coalition of the Oppressed in their place. In the PoMo’s telling, reality is “socially constructed.” And so the PoMos seek to tear down everything that “privileges” the powerful over the powerless and to replace it with new truths [...]
