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   * **Alan Sokal** and his books //[[libth>27742|Fashionable Nonsense]]// and //[[libth>4128977|Beyond the Hoax]]//. Alan Sokal noticed the spread of Post-Modernism in Academia and then orchestrated the Sokal Affair as a means of exposing it. He's since remained highly critical of Post-Modernism.((:fn:>Ironically, I've seen Post-Modernists (bad video essayists) on YouTube praise Sokal for the affair.))
   * **John McWorther** and his book //[[libth>26764956|Woke Racism]]//. His book is hyper-focused on Critical Race Theory, though I believe he exposes Post-Modern/SocJus tactics/beliefs in general.
-  * **Thorsten Renk** and his essay //[[http://www.science-and-fiction.org/essays/postmodern_philosophy.html|Comments on Postmodern Philosophy]]//. I haven't read the essay but I more-or-less know what it's about. Thorsten further describes himself (in other parts of his website) that he is opposed to Post-Modernism.
+  * **Thorsten Renk** and his essay //[[http://www.science-and-fiction.org/essays/postmodern_philosophy.html|Comments on Postmodern Philosophy]]//. I haven't read the essay but I more-or-less know what it's about. Thorsten further describes himself (in other parts of his website) as opposed to Post-Modernism.
   * **Thomas Sowell** and the main work concerned with this is //[[libth>7982|The Vision of the Anointed]]//. I don't think he specifically attributes it to Post-Modernism, but it's notable because the tactics seem the same.
     * I've checked and other books that may be notable (I've not read them) are [[libth>29477936|Social Justice Fallacies]] and [[libth>13691906|Intellectuals and Race]]. Though many of his works are relevant in some form – at least from my limited understanding.
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 ===== Description =====
 ==== A very brief history ====
-As an ideology/philosophy, Post-Modernism originated in France among French Neo-Marxists who were very bitter and cynical about society. Thus they created the //most// cynical and evil ideology.
+The following is //very// brief, //extremely// condensed and //simplified//. This is because I don't think knowing the history is super necessary for understanding the ideology.\\
+The information I'm presenting here is mostly just repeating the history from //[[libth>24335173|Cynical Theories]]// and //[[libth>19087011|A Generation of Sociopaths]]//. More from the former than the latter. If you want a better and more detailed history, I recommend reading //[[libth>24335173|Cynical Theories]]//. Albeit, it's presented in a somewhat convoluted fashion.
-From France, it spread to the rest of the West primarily via Academia. Academia ended up as the ‘vanguard’ of Post-Modernism in a sense and this is why it is dominated by Post-Modern thinking.\\
+Post-Modernism originated in France among French Neo-Marxists who were very bitter and cynical about society. Thus they created the //most// cynical ideology.
-This infiltration occurred during the 1950s-1960s, if I recall correctly, which is also when it entered America specifically.
-Post-Modernism attached itself to Boomers via Academia and, from there, started spreading to the rest of society. Though it wasn't that noticeable until the mid-late 90s, which is when it started to get //really// prominent. This is where Alan Sokal noticed and tried to expose it.\\
+From France, it spread to the rest of the West primarily via Academia.\\
-I think this is also when ‘Social Justice’ actually formed as an ideology, though the constituent parts can be traced back to the 60s.
+Academia ended up as the ‘vanguard’ of Post-Modernism in a sense and this is why it is dominated by Post-Modern thinking in the present.\\
+The infiltration into Academia occurred during the 1950s and 1960s, with it becoming prominent in American Academia in the 1960s.((:fn:>This date is an estimate based off of the information from //[[libth>24335173|Cynical Theories]]// and //[[libth>19087011|A Generation of Sociopaths]]//. What's important to note is that the ‘Hippie’ movement in the United States – and all derivative/sister movements – was post-modernist, which is why I'm singling out the 60s.))
-The ideology became practically mainstream in the late 2000s resulting in complete dominance in the 2010s. This is also where the first major popular backlash against it occurred in the form of GamerGate.((:fn:>GamerGate is also a complicated subject that I'm choosing to ignore. Nameless Rumia has the most neutral [[https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php?id=gamergate|article]] on the it.)) This is also the reason why some people believe all this nonsense started with GamerGate: it didn't, GamerGate just made it visible.
+Post-Modernism attached itself to Boomers via Academia and, from there, started spreading to the rest of society. Though it wasn't that noticeable until the mid-late 90s, which is when it started to get //really// prominent.((:fn:>Though you can still see Post-Modernism's influence in pop culture as far back as the early 70s – like in //The Amazing Spider-Man//.)) This is where Alan Sokal noticed and tried to expose it.\\
+I think((:fn:>Where it definitively began is up for debate.)) this is also when ‘Social Justice’ actually formed as an ideology, though the constituent parts can be traced back to the 60s.
-GamerGate didn't really lead to an overall dismantling of Post-Modernism/SocJus, though it did cement gamers as the enemy. The early 2020s was when the cracks really started to form because, by this point, a lot more people became aware of ‘wokeism’ via pattern-recognition...and then started wholesale rejecting it.
+The ideology became practically mainstream in the late 2000s resulting in complete dominance in the 2010s. This is also where the first major popular backlash against it occurred in the form of GamerGate.((:fn:>GamerGate is also a complicated subject that I'm choosing to ignore. Nameless Rumia has the most neutral [[https://namelessrumia.heliohost.org/w/doku.php?id=gamergate|article]] on it.)) This is also the reason why some people believe all this nonsense started with GamerGate; it didn't, GamerGate just made it visible.
+GamerGate didn't really lead to an overall dismantling of Post-Modernism/SocJus, though it did cement gamers as //the// enemy of Social Justice(tm). The early 2020s was when the cracks really started to form because, by this point, a lot more people became aware of ‘wokeism’ via pattern-recognition...and then started wholesale rejecting it.
 Currently, in 2025, SocJus is on the decline but remains quite influential. Post-Modernism itself seems to be partially but not fully affected. Hence the need for an article like this.
+==== What is it? =====
+**Note:** I discovered that I actually did a bad job of explaining what post-modernism is which is obviously a grave error. I'll fix this issue at some point, hopefully in the near future.
-This brief history is //very// brief, //extremely// condensed and //simplified// because I don't think it's super necessary for understanding the ideology. If you want a more detailed (and somewhat convoluted) explanation of the history, just read //[[libth>24335173|Cynical Theories]]//.
-==== What is it? =====
 SocJus is a Post-Modern ideology. I should note that I previously made the error of assuming it //was// Post-Modernism, which I realized was an error because there are //other// Post-Modern ideologies. But let's ignore those for now.\\
 That said, SocJus is //probably// the purest Post-Modern ideology due to it being the closest to its originating roots. Plus it's the most radical.