Critiquing Postmodernism: Power Imbalances and the Rejection of Objective Values.

🔑 Post-modernism is a philosophical and cultural movement characterized by a rejection of objective values, skepticism towards truth, and critique of power relations.

🌍 Post-modernists argue that power is unevenly distributed in society, shaping people's identities and worldviews, and they challenge those in authority.

🚫 Chomsky criticizes post-modernism for allowing radical stances while being detached from any meaningful action.

💡 Chomsky criticizes post-modernism for its incomprehensibility and dismissive attitude towards other fields.

💭 Chomsky argues that post-modernism has created its own power structure driven by the desire for material rewards.

🔍 Post-modernism has insulated the radical intelligentsia from popular movements and activism, serving as an instrument of power.

📚 Postmodernists create a unique lingo and tribal-like academic communities to mimic academic findings.

🔍 Chomsky criticizes their theories for mixing contradictions and truisms in overly fancy language.

💡 Postmodernists generate novel and provocative concepts using shock tactics for maintaining relevance.

📚 French intellectuals gain attention through media exposure and need to come up with exciting ideas to be taken seriously.

🌟 Chomsky highlights the use of extreme and unconventional ideas by post-modernists to attract attention and make headlines.

❓ Example of a post-modern article questioning the cause of an ancient Pharaoh's death, suggesting tuberculosis as a social construct.

📚 Chomsky criticizes postmodernism for its absurd claim that everything is a social construction.

🕵️‍♂️ Postmodernists may employ tactics of incomprehensible ideas and implicitly accuse others of inadequacy.

⚔️ Chomsky uses postmodernism's own methodology to challenge its power structures in Academia.

🔑 Chomsky criticizes postmodern professors for using convoluted power games to maintain their authority.

🔍 These professors create theories that lack predictive power and only serve to reinforce their own authority over knowledge creation.

🌐 Chomsky argues that postmodernism isolates professors from activism and marginalizes researchers who value clarity.

Chomsky criticizes how intellectuals in third world countries have hindered their own development.

The separation between radical intellectuals and popular struggle in third world countries is more apparent and extreme.

Chomsky's critique of postmodernism is a comprehensive denunciation of the movement using its own principles.