PROGRESSIVE VERBAL DECEPTION In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicit

PROGRESSIVE VERBAL DECEPTION

In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicitly and consistency can be a rare phenomenon. Consider the following pairs of claims.

1) On the one hand, all truth is relative; on the other hand, postmodernism tells it like it really is.

2) On the one hand, all cultures are equally deserving of respect; on the other, Western culture is uniquely destructive and bad.

3) Values are subjective—but sexism and racism are really evil. Technology is bad and destructive—and it is unfair that some people have more technology than others.

4) Tolerance is good and dominance is bad—but when postmodernists come to power, political correctness follows.

There is a common pattern here: Subjectivism and relativism in one breath, dogmatic absolutism in the next.

Hicks, Stephen R. C. (2010-10-19). Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Kindle Locations 4281-4291). Ockham’s Razor Publishing / Scholargy. Kindle Edition.

The only possible conservative strategy is the one they adopted. Equal irrationalism and dogma.