ChristianKl comments on Guarding Against the Postmodernist Failure Mode - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 09 July 2014 01:16:37PM 0 points [-]

If I put obscurationism in Google, it indicates that it has a history that's a lot older than postmodernism.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 July 2014 01:19:33PM 0 points [-]

So?

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 July 2014 02:14:12PM 1 point [-]

It's not something specific to postmodernism, so it's not useful for deciding whether neoreactionism has something to do with postmodernism.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 July 2014 03:05:25PM 1 point [-]

I can criticise neoreationaries for being as obscurantist as postmodernism.

Comment author: [deleted] 12 July 2014 12:15:34AM 1 point [-]

No you can't -- unless you think postmodernists' obscurantism is a deliberate piece of institutional design.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 12 July 2014 04:37:48PM * -1 points [-]

Accidental obscutantism is excusable?