And what about Cynical Theories and their understanding of postmodernism? They claim that a major part of postmodernism, especially one related to sociology, began to produce conflict-theoretic slop.
I suspect that postmodernism could be meant to study the potential to lock in oppressing memes (like Black people being dangerous or mentally less capable than White people) and ways to free mankind from them. What I don’t quite buy is claims like “Memes propagating among White peopleharm Black people’s ability to succeed”. What if they achieve a different effect of making some Black people more determined to disprove these memes?
There might also exist things like crab bucket mentality or other meme complexes which tend to infect people and to change the behavior of the infected towards keeping them powerless. Or memes infecting weak-willed people and making them less likely to become strong-willed, but more likely to make the meme seem plausible and infect others.
However, in practice postmodernists try to stop propagation of the memes viewed as harmful even if they reflect some ground truth. More examples of such behavior can be found, for example, in the book that I mentioned.
And what about Cynical Theories and their understanding of postmodernism? They claim that a major part of postmodernism, especially one related to sociology, began to produce conflict-theoretic slop.
I suspect that postmodernism could be meant to study the potential to lock in oppressing memes (like Black people being dangerous or mentally less capable than White people) and ways to free mankind from them. What I don’t quite buy is claims like “Memes propagating among White people harm Black people’s ability to succeed”. What if they achieve a different effect of making some Black people more determined to disprove these memes?
There might also exist things like crab bucket mentality or other meme complexes which tend to infect people and to change the behavior of the infected towards keeping them powerless. Or memes infecting weak-willed people and making them less likely to become strong-willed, but more likely to make the meme seem plausible and infect others.
However, in practice postmodernists try to stop propagation of the memes viewed as harmful even if they reflect some ground truth. More examples of such behavior can be found, for example, in the book that I mentioned.