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Episode #118 ... A Basic Look At Postmodernism

Philosophize This!

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Binary Oppositions Are Cultural Tools That Allow Members of a Culture to Make Meaning of Things

Thinkers quickly noticed a couple things that didn't seem to add up there. When people actually use these tools of binary oppositions to make sense of things, it's never 100 % in either or thing. It may be impossible to use these cultural tools without bringing privilege to one side of a binary opposition based the context someone is in. And i'll leave you to predict how that might create problems in the future when looking at other binary oppositions we use That aren't about a chair sitting in an empty room.

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