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147 Post author: Yvain 13 September 2010 09:36PM

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 September 2010 12:10:05AM 14 points [-]

I would like to announce that I have discovered the social cluster that has discovered the method of discovering all social clusters, and am now a postmodernist. Seriously guys, postmodernism is pretty meta. Update on expected metaness.

Comment author: Spurlock 14 September 2010 02:52:21AM 0 points [-]

I'm confused. What point are you trying to make about postmodernism?

Comment author: Will_Newsome 14 September 2010 04:05:28AM *  16 points [-]

None, really. I just like how its proponents can always win arguments by claiming to be more meta than their opponents. ("Sure, everything you made sense within your frame of reference, but there are no privileged frames of reference. Indeed, proving that there are privileged frames of reference requires a privileged frame of reference and is thus an impossible philosophical act. I can't prove anything I just said, which proves my point, depending on whether you think it did or not.")

(I don't take postmodernism seriously, but some of the ideas are philosophically elegant.)

Comment author: DSimon 14 September 2010 02:39:27PM 12 points [-]

I can't prove anything I just said, which proves my point, depending on whether you think it did or not.

I would like this on a t-shirt.