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Originally Posted by evollove
?? I find this hard to believe. Isn't crit theory is way too fragmented for generalizations?
-Read much Delillo? A lot of his stuff is Baudrillard and Jameson in fiction form. Not sure how I feel about that.
-You know what would be really fun? Pretend, for just five minutes, that Baudrillard is wrong about everything.
This is something I've been doing from time to time: pretend to believe in something I ordinarily don't. I mean, really getting into that mindset. It's not merely humoring the idea, it's a full-on psychological transformation.
It's kind of scary. "What if I don't come back?" But it's stimulating, often rewarding, intellectually rigorous, not to mention intellectually honest.
Try it. Just spend a fraction of time thinking of the ways Chomsky is utter bullshit. Or why patriotism is vital to a society. Why US foreign policy has been a force for good. Or why Christianity is the Truth. Or why Baudrillard is a fraud.
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I don't have much difficulty adopting that mindset since its the comfortable one where you don't have to worry about all the people your state murdered, or your inevitable death. But it's not based on anything substantial, just delusions that are too flimsy to really work, so it can't save you. I don't even see how it could make you feel better, in the long term. It is not possible for me to be convinced Christianity is the "Truth" or Amerinazism is the "Truth" either because they aren't.
You don't have to think in such black and white terms anyway.