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So I wouldn’t fancy {{author|Helen Pluckrose}}’s mentions right now. (There’s a simple answer to dealing with crappy mentions, by the way, folks: {{maxim|get off Twitter}}.) | So I wouldn’t fancy {{author|Helen Pluckrose}}’s mentions right now. (There’s a simple answer to dealing with crappy mentions, by the way, folks: {{maxim|get off Twitter}}.) | ||
====The [[Theory]] of [[Theory]]==== | ====The [[Theory]] of [[Theory]]==== | ||
Anyway. Call it what you will: critical [[ | Anyway. Call it what you will: critical [[theory]], social justice [[theory]], applied (''post''?) [[post-modernism]], “[[Theory]]” with a capital “T” or just raving bonkers wokeness — it defies categorisation and critical appraisal by deliberate design. {{br|Cynical Theories}} wilfully transgresses its [[Hermeneutic|hermeneutical]] boundaries and pins it down, articulating, examining and shining an unflattering light on it and the ways it subverts traditional liberal values of openness, enquiry and reasoned debate that have, in truth, delivered most of the social progress of the past half-century. | ||
To be sure, life for the marginalised is hardly perfect, but progress is a journey; we’re in a far better place than we were, and (notwithstanding the recent lurch to the right) we are still headed in a fair direction with a tailwind of basic liberal aspiration. Progress is a journey ''away'' from an unsatisfactory now, not towards a utopian later. And in any society, however enlightened, ''someone'' has to be at the margins — assuming the end goal isn’t some kind of Stepford Wives arrangement. | To be sure, life for the marginalised is hardly perfect, but progress is a journey; we’re in a far better place than we were, and (notwithstanding the recent lurch to the right) we are still headed in a fair direction with a tailwind of basic liberal aspiration. Progress is a journey ''away'' from an unsatisfactory now, not towards a utopian later. And in any society, however enlightened, ''someone'' has to be at the margins — assuming the end goal isn’t some kind of Stepford Wives arrangement. | ||