The Creativity Post: A certain “Molotov cocktail like” version of postmodernism and post-structuralism in its diluted, twisted and oversimplified version has become the very fabric of the current intellectual and cultural milieu. An agenda based on narratives, separated only by plausible (often tribal) aesthetics has produced a legion of “skimmers”, people who do not bother themselves with deeper meaning, who confuse semantics and aesthetics with ethics, who think that sensationalism is a form of “critical thinking”, have sadly dominated the current discourse. You can find skimmers everywhere, from poor journalists to self-proclaimed “leaders” (in business, politics or the self-help industry). Unfortunately, they are also present in academe (which spells a lot of trouble for this institution itself).
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