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diff --git a/blog/normal.org b/blog/normal.org deleted file mode 100644 index ccb40ac..0000000 --- a/blog/normal.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -#+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. - |