On 9 Dec 2016, at 17.59, Bobo <the.bobo@gmail.com> wrote:
The alternative is fawning adoration for a strongman figure that accomplishes the magical, saying nothing while simultaneously "telling it like it really is" on the right, and impotent "I told you so's" about perspectivalism on the left ("it's constructed! How dare you arbitrate between fake and real! Who are you to judge!"). All the while the material conditions for brown, black, poor, female, queer, neurodiverse, Native, and especially non-American lives are subject to real and lasting effects as a consequence of the interpretive lenses we choose for politics and living.
The threat of post-modern social constructivism was identified long ago in the European J. of Social Psychology. This recent book is more comprehensive: http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2004/10/crowder.html <http://www.australianreview.net/digest/2004/10/crowder.html> "Postmodernism opens the door to fascism, and is unable to close it again.” dss David Stodolsky, PhD Institute for Social Informatics Tornskadestien 2, st. th., DK-2400 Copenhagen NV, Denmark dss@socialinformatics.org Skype/Twitter: davidstodolsky