The Disadvantages of Post-Modernism

Sokol: Post-modernism is a word soup pretending to be deep. There's not much there, there's the pretense of intellectual endeavor but it's more akin to poetry than actual philosophy. He says some post-modernists use terminology taken from hard sciences and from mathematics then repurposed for use in a completely different area. Sokol: But there's a difference between honestly trying to explain things clearly using this specialist language of a particular subject and dishonestly representing what's going on in a subject area using the language of some other subject area.