From f10285de4d0b5c69d026e948a9d9d7278a2ffb64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Preston Pan Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:06:11 -0800 Subject: add resume --- blog/normal.org | 43 ------------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 43 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 blog/normal.org (limited to 'blog/normal.org') 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: -#+html_head: -#+html_head: -#+html_head: -#+html_head: -#+html_head: -#+html_head: -#+html_head: -#+html_head: -#+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. - -- cgit