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diff --git a/blog/normal.org b/blog/normal.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ccb40ac --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/normal.org @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +#+title: Reconstructing Postmodernism +#+author: Preston Pan +#+description: +#+html_head: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../style.css" /> +#+html_head: <link rel="apple-touch-icon" sizes="180x180" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"> +#+html_head: <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="32x32" href="/favicon-32x32.png"> +#+html_head: <link rel="icon" type="image/png" sizes="16x16" href="/favicon-16x16.png"> +#+html_head: <link rel="manifest" href="/site.webmanifest"> +#+html_head: <link rel="mask-icon" href="/safari-pinned-tab.svg" color="#5bbad5"> +#+html_head: <meta name="msapplication-TileColor" content="#da532c"> +#+html_head: <meta name="theme-color" content="#ffffff"> +#+html_head: <meta name="viewport" content="width=1000; user-scalable=0;" /> +#+language: en +#+OPTIONS: broken-links:t + +* 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. + |