OBAMA’S POSTSTRUCTURALIST BUDDIES
Did you ever wonder what philosophy underlies popular political phrases of President Obama like the following?
- We are the ones we’ve been waiting for;
- Five days from now we will fundamentally change America;
- I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody;
- It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
David Barton’s revelatory new book , “The Jefferson Lies: Exploring the Myths You’ve Always Known About Thomas Jefferson,” eloquently answers these questions and presents a substantial effort “to reverse the effect of the five malpractices of modern history that have distorted not only the presentation of Jefferson in particular but of American history in general.”
Barton calls these five malpractices of modern history: Deconstructionism, Poststructuralism, Modernism, Minimalism and Academic Collectivism.Last week I wrote about Deconstructionism, and today we will discuss the second malpractice of modern history – Poststructuralism – a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of prominent mid-20th-century French and continental intellectuals, philosophers and theorists who came to international prominence in the 1960s and ’70s. I will explain the extent this tragic philosophy has corrupted contemporary society.
Barton writes:
“The second historical device for attacking and pulling down what is traditionally honored is called Poststructuralism. Poststructuralism is marked ‘by a rejection of totalizing, essentialist, foundationalist concepts’ such as the reality of truth or ‘the will of God.’ Poststructuralism discards absolutes and is ‘a-historical’ (that is, non- or anti-historical), believing that nothing transcendent can be learned from history. Instead, meaning must be constructed by each individual for him- or herself, and historical meanings may shift and change based on an individual’s personal views.”
Click here to read the article at World Net Daily
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