{"id":180479,"date":"2017-04-05T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T01:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/05\/todays-philosophy-read\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T01:48:00","slug":"todays-philosophy-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/05\/todays-philosophy-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Philosophy Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/areomagazine.com\/2017\/03\/27\/how-french-intellectuals-ruined-the-west-postmodernism-and-its-impact-explained\/\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 150%; font-variant: small-caps;\">How French \u201cIntellectuals\u201d Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a (IMNSHO) well deserved systematic dismantling of the philosophy of postmodernism, a philosophy which I loath, but which has found much favor in academe.<\/p>\n<p>It reduces the whole of human knowledge to competing relativistic fictions.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s comments regarding, &#8220;Alternative Facts,&#8221; is the epitome, if not the apotheosis, of post modernist thought.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole thing, but here is my favorite paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Our current crisis is not one of Left versus Right but of consistency,  reason, humility and universal liberalism versus inconsistency,  irrationalism, zealous certainty and tribal authoritarianism. The future  of freedom, equality and justice looks equally bleak whether the  postmodern Left or the post-truth Right wins this current war. Those of  us who value liberal democracy and the fruits of the Enlightenment and  Scientific Revolution and modernity itself must provide a better option. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How French \u201cIntellectuals\u201d Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained It is a (IMNSHO) well deserved systematic dismantling of the philosophy of postmodernism, a philosophy which I loath, but which has found much favor in academe. It reduces the whole of human knowledge to competing relativistic fictions. The Trump administration&#8217;s comments regarding, &#8220;Alternative Facts,&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,504],"class_list":["post-180479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}