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i know that right wing asshole already.
"narcissism." and then it turns out this contemporary media event is really about you because you are a narcissist. its one of the most transparent and stupid insight porn blogs out there.
i'll give him this - he has a unique voice. unique enough to carry itself and be 'something', but the actual content and quality of his stuff is minimal. its basically misogyny and sneering, he watches porn because he's such an authentic hedonist nihilist. except its sad posturing and he doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. especially those godawful attempts to write about the economy, that was fucking embarrassing.
anyway, the only thing he really has to say is that truth value = zero and narcissism fills the void. except this is only a partial glimpse of the real picture. what he's really offering is just a kind of extreme relativism where you get to feel relief that NOTHING is about ANYTHING because its not about you. he thinks you can deconstruct everything to mean exactly what you want it to mean.
he thinks he's very clever tricking everyone with those articles, which aim to get you to identify as a narcissist and prove his point. you are a narcissist because you think you are??? most of it is gibberish.
INSIGHT PORN - theory for people too self conscious to be intellectuals. lots of "fuck" and "shit"'s thrown in there just so you know its real and not like nerdy or anything.
in particular his 'partial objects' blog was hilarious. these ultra entitled upper middle class and above college educated assholes with most unbelievably condescending attitudes thinking they were 'enlightening' everyone else. the unmerited self belief of those guys, and their arrogance was jaw dropping. an interesting experiment in replacing reasons with shit you make up and argument with sneering.
they were all VERY convinced that they could pass off hip theory words and dazzle the lower orders who would be ignorant of what they really meant. except they didn't even know what the words they were saying meant. "foucault was telling you there is nothing but power, and you must seize it for yourself!"
i have read one book by foucault and don't even pay attention to him. the guy who wrote that sentence has definitely not read as much as that. yet he felt confident in so brazenly saying that, even though it's so wrong it would be a seriously humiliating thing to say in front of anyone with a clue.
really amazing testament to what one of the cleverer commenters called "the post modern dark age".
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