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===[[Critical theory]], [[post-modernism]], [[modernism]] and the death of objective truth=== | ===[[Critical theory]], [[post-modernism]], [[modernism]] and the death of objective truth=== | ||
{{Quote|“people of every age seem to be in a sort of post-truth scenario here where I get to pick my own facts. There are a lot of facts out of their, I get to pick the ones that I like and I can go with those. And nobody can really tell me that those aren't the facts because it's my truth. Those are my facts and don't tell me that they're not. The fact that we are all kind of getting caught up in that leaves me very worried about the world. We even now get to pick which scientists we want to believe. So I know that 98% of the scientist say this, but I like the guys who are in the 2%.” | |||
:— Prentice, quoted in Gabrielle Bluestone’s {{br|Hype}}}} | |||
Most conspiracy theories contain a grain of truth. Some are completely true. There has to be something for the credulous people to glom onto. The conspiracy theory of our time is critical theory | Most conspiracy theories contain a grain of truth. Some are completely true. There has to be something for the credulous people to glom onto. The conspiracy theory of our time is critical theory | ||
[[Critical theory]]’s grain of truth, ironically, is that ''there is no truth''. This is its debt to post-modernism, and it is a proposition that contemporary rationalists find hard to accept. Those on the right — {{author|Douglas Murray}}’s {{br|The Madness of Crowds}} is an articulate example — and the left | [[Critical theory]]’s grain of truth, ironically, is that ''there is no truth''. This is its debt to post-modernism, and it is a proposition that contemporary rationalists find hard to accept. Those on the right — {{author|Douglas Murray}}’s {{br|The Madness of Crowds}} is an articulate example — and the left | ||
The irony deepens, for defenders of the enlightenment bring critical theory to book for its ignorance of obvious truths, while critical theory itself has bootstrapped itself into assembling a new set of of objective truths, which happened to be different to the conventional enlightenment ones. | The irony deepens, for defenders of the enlightenment bring critical theory to book for its ignorance of obvious truths, while critical theory itself has bootstrapped itself into assembling a new set of of objective truths, which happened to be different to the conventional enlightenment ones. | ||