I don't think it's the arch factor that many claim it to be, but it fits more broadly into the idea of losing touch with reality. There's value in picking apart/subverting/deconstructing concepts, but it, much like communism/socialism, has been played to its absolute extremes, to the point where intellectuals and academia have created th…
I don't think it's the arch factor that many claim it to be, but it fits more broadly into the idea of losing touch with reality. There's value in picking apart/subverting/deconstructing concepts, but it, much like communism/socialism, has been played to its absolute extremes, to the point where intellectuals and academia have created their own walled garden of incomprehensible pretense that doesn't connect with much of tangible reality. Again, theorizing oneself out of feasibility.
I don't think it's the arch factor that many claim it to be, but it fits more broadly into the idea of losing touch with reality. There's value in picking apart/subverting/deconstructing concepts, but it, much like communism/socialism, has been played to its absolute extremes, to the point where intellectuals and academia have created their own walled garden of incomprehensible pretense that doesn't connect with much of tangible reality. Again, theorizing oneself out of feasibility.