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Dagon comments on Open thread 7th september - 13th september - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dagon 07 September 2015 10:32:21PM 0 points [-]

"the counterfactual in which postmodernist philosophy never came into being has less acceptance of those concepts"

Still needs unpacking. What does "never came into being" mean for a belief cluster with many components that predate the label by a long way? "If these beliefs didn't become popular, they wouldn't be popular" is kind of hard to argue against. "novel aspect X of postmodernism caused faster/more complete acceptance of the classical liberal values" could be an interesting debate, and I don't know of any X that's a slam dunk to be both new with postmodernism and important to "live and let live" as a societal attitude.

Comment author: ike 07 September 2015 11:14:14PM 0 points [-]

"novel aspect X of postmodernism caused faster/more complete acceptance of the classical liberal values"

Pretty much this, with X being "no objective truth" (or moral relativism.)