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+#+title: Reconstructing Postmodernism
+#+author: Preston Pan
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+* Introduction
+In the collective subconscious there is this idea of the "norm" -- a
+set of expected cultural attitudes and beliefs that other people hold
+in any given society. This idea is used to analyze hierarchical
+structures found in society, manifest in concepts like the patriarchy,
+queer rights, black liberation, and others. There are many frameworks
+that include all of the above as subframeworks and synthesize them in
+some way, but often they have a couple ideas in common: that the
+concepts that implicitly infect our society in some way via some
+hierarchical order are often unjustified and could be dissolved
+without much loss. I propose the following: that the conclusions
+presented (that often social hierarchies are unjustified) are true
+/in some sense/, but that the real story is more complicated. I posit
+that our inability to solve the problem of society and our treatment
+of minorities isn't a /problem of society/, but rather a framing problem.
+
+* The Bleak Culture
+Our current society is broken. This is a view shared by a vast
+majority of people, but many people hold this exact view for a
+multitude of reasons. I hold this view because I believe that no
+current cultural narrative solves the problem of our "current
+generation". The progressive narrative posits that our problems in
+society are highly linked with our inability to cope with social
+inequalities, often treating minorities and, often times, regular
+people poorly in favor of those with high status. The conservative
+answer to culture is that we must turn back, back to something that
+has been shown to work in the past.
+