Bad illustration.
On the contrary, I think it is a very good one, John. If your Philosophy holds that "Truth" is what the group thinks it is, as PoMo does, it is a logical extension to think that Morality, an extension of "Truth", is what the group says it is. Your explanation, in your previous post, of discussing with people your "individual" and "collective" truths vs theirs, is fine, but the bottom line with "PoMo", as I showed by the definitions the teachers of it use, is that "Collective" truth is the rule.
Any group that does a huge amount of evil, such as Hitler, et al, does it, not because they think they are evil, and it is necessary or fun, but because they think it is right. They "justify" their actions by first turning the group they are killing into objects, ("You are nothing, the state is everything!" Hitler used to scream.) Then they convince themselves that their actions are right because they, as a group, believe them to be so.
"PoMo" gives a philosophical basis for these actions. Your experience teaching it or working with it in Universities may not have taken it to that level, but that outlook, taught to students, provides the basis for toleration of evil, such as the terrorists, and creation of great evil. That is why you see such a hatred for it, from "pre-modernists" such as Christians, and "modernists," such as myself. |
