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I actually have a special hatred for post modernism, because I believe it is a disease that specifically targets people who are smart, and genuine. Like many diseases, it is progressive, and after a while, the afflicted is overcome, and is no longer themselves.

Specifically, I have known many smart people who had attitudes similar to Zeebo's. They genuinely felt there was something wrong with the way that knowledge was constructed, and they were right. They thought that marginal groups of people, such as nonwhites, or women, were being shorted in society, and that the academic establishment was complicit in this.

Somehow, instead of deciding to make sense out of the world, by, for example, reading Chomsky's own <u>Manufacturing Consent</u>, on the nature, and logic of mainsteam media, they read some other books. Somehow, instead of joining a political organization, or getting involved in a union, they joined a reading circle. Somehow instead of studying economics, or history, or political science, they decided to study "critical theory" or "women's studies". They went further and further down the rabbit hole, until their own methodology and worldview became so detached, so hermetic, so convoluted, that they passed the point of no return.

Usually what happens to these people is they become so self-satisfied in their enlightenment that they forget why they went down the rabbit hole in the first place. Let me tell you one thing. If your goal is to overthrow "patriachy" or capitalism, the odds against you doing so are zilch when the only people you talk to speak klingon.

I'm not saying that the CIA is behind this or anything. However, if the CIA were to devise a blind alley for idealists, do you think it would be significantly different than the PM rabbit hole?

cliffs notes: If PM didn't exist, the CIA/FBI would have to invent it.