POST-MODERNISM DEBATE!

Have you ever heard someone say "post-modernism isn't true according to it's own logic."?

Well I just realized why this is both true and false.

I believe that the comment "post-modernism isn't true according to it's own logic." is a pre-post-modern statement. Only under pre-post-modern conditions can post-modernism be true.

But, the comment "post-modernism isn't true according to it's own logic." can only be a valid point within a post-modern paradigm.

Awesome.

A Comment About Philosophy

Perhaps this is just a correlation, but I'm starting to think that a person's philosophical -- economic, political, social, and spiritual beliefs are not founded on objective reasoning, but on a desire to justify their actions.

Have you heard about Jurgen Habermas' Emancipatory Knowledge?

I just read Habermas's Exerpt Emancipatory Knowledge from Knowledge and Human Interests. I think Habermas was saying that although science attempts to be methodologically objective, our use of scientific knowledge is not methodologically objective. As a result our application of scientific knowledge always serves our human interests. Pretty dope.

I think one of the most obvious and contemporary examples would be the multinational agricultural biotechnology corporation Monsanto Company. Whose genetically modified seeds are the result of scientific knowledge, and whose patent serves their individual and collective interests.

While their application of scientific knowledge is not only subjective but self-interested, it is only capable of being successful because of the political, economic, and social systems that exist. Commence pondering.