/lit/ - Literature

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>baiting this hard
stop

>"But for others, I would simply suggest that you ask those who tell you about the wonders of "theory" and "philosophy" to justify their claims --- to do what people in physics, math, biology, linguistics, and other fields are happy to do when someone asks them, seriously, what are the principles of their theories, on what evidence are they based, what do they explain that wasn't already obvious, etc. These are fair requests for anyone to make. If they can't be met, then I'd suggest recourse to Hume's advice in similar circumstances: to the flames."
That's by Chomsky. I've never seen those questions answered by postmodernists. They prefer to dance around with their smoke and mirrors. They prefer to ask others to define their movement so they can smugly say that the definition isn't accurate and then prance around like they won the argument.

My firm belief is that your personal identity is not something you alone decide. It's a negotiated reality between you and society as a whole.

Meaning that if you say you're a man, and society says you're a woman, you're a fucking woman. You don't get to decide what you are.

Same as if I say I'm charitable, but all of society says I'm greedy, I can't demand of society to "respect" my own identity of being charitable, and shout at people who call me greedy.