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Offline SirJohn

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Re: Philosophy Culture
« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2018, 03:24:29 pm »
There is an objective reality, but all of us are looking at it through a distorted lens that we have constructed ourselves.  You experience reality through your own set of filters and biases and even biological differences that make your experience different from the person next to you.  The viewer's own lens is an unavoidable part of what they're seeing. In a sense, we ourselves create the way we experience things.  I think that's an unavoidable conclusion.  And if my understanding of the term is correct, that's the basic idea behind post-modernism.

The problem is that when you apply this to education it allows for an enormous variance in what youth are taught, depending on the professor's mindset and which books they choose. Which means you can take History 101 and Fred can take History 101 from a different professor and you'll wind up with entirely different views. Oh, you'll know dates and places and names. But you'll come out thinking Sir John A MacDonald was a brilliant, wonderful visionary and Fred will come out thinking Sir John A was a monster who was responsible for all manner of societal ills. And the way the course is taught will not allow for any different conclusion, depending on which professor you take.

It also allows for people to basically make up their own conclusions based on their own version of reality in most of the rest of the humanities, especially in the 'made up' subjects like gender studies, where there really is no firm academic basis for anything being taught. It's almost all purely subjective.

"When liberals insist that only fascists will defend borders then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals won't do." David Frum