the right/ wrong of postmodern ideas

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the right/ wrong of postmodern ideas

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Almost every time, the issues they raise are real issues that have a meaningful impact on someone's lives. But

they have a very poor/non-existent understanding of context and the relevance and importance of their ideas is blown exponentially out of proportion, usually resulting in them being Wrong! because they become an opportunity cost for vastly more important issues, the solution for which would render their petty concerns irrelevant.
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Advocate wrote: Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:42 pm Almost every time, the issues they raise are real issues that have a meaningful impact on someone's lives. But

they have a very poor/non-existent understanding of context and the relevance and importance of their ideas is blown exponentially out of proportion, usually resulting in them being Wrong! because they become an opportunity cost for vastly more important issues, the solution for which would render their petty concerns irrelevant.
I don't think you've figured out the fact that politics is the process of contextualisation with respect to intents/goals/values.

So when Derrida says "Il n'y a pas de hors-texte"" (there is no outside text, there's nothing outside the text) he's saying precisely that!

How do I contextualise this piece of writing? You can't do any hermeneutics without something to contextualise with respect to.

Which is why in political science "framing" and"contextualising" is often used synonymously with "agenda-setting".
The default for most humans is to contextualise new information in terms of their own agenda/political goals/priorities.
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Re: the right/ wrong of postmodern ideas

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Advocate wrote: Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:42 pm Almost every time, the issues they raise are real issues that have a meaningful impact on someone's lives. But

they have a very poor/non-existent understanding of context and the relevance and importance of their ideas is blown exponentially out of proportion, usually resulting in them being Wrong! because they become an opportunity cost for vastly more important issues, the solution for which would render their petty concerns irrelevant.
What you are saying is hopelessly vauge and diffuse.
One of PMs biggest problems is the tendancy to achieve obscurity. I have to say that your opening gambit is worse.
Maybe you should actually start with an example, with sources, otherwise people will think that you have succumbed to a failure to grasp any PM idea, as so many do.
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