Will Emerging

clipped from proteinwisdom.com In this sense, the linguistic turn — along with those who’ve worked to insinuate its teachings into our very epistemic interpretive substructure — is moving toward its ultimate victory: turning descriptive postmodern philosophy into a prescriptive postmodern paradigm, one that deconstructs the very notion of meaning, turning every battle into one of will, with “meaning” becoming nothing more than that narrative which is imposed upon us by the plurality. This is akin to tyranny of the majority — akin to “democratizing” something (namely, meaning as fixed by intent, and a recognition of whose intent one is privileging) that should, by its very nature, be assumed fixed and intractable for purposes of interpretation. Concludes Kurtz: So continued media silence on Obama’s intimidation tactics threatens not only the fairness of this election, but press freedom itself. Yet to defend the freedom of the right as if it were their own is something our left-leaning press has forgotten how to do.