sadness of america/bad postmodernism

[John Doe]

No, I wasn't implying a case against the persuit of
theory; that's fine, esp. since I have a professed
bias towards the notion that ALL intellectual persuits
are better than none...it matters in THIS sense: does
he, and other Post-modernists, ever consider what is
going on in the minds of uneducated, marginalized folk
with one or two paramount concerns in their life- such
as eating that day- as opposed to lucky, urban folk
who ARE exposed to the post-modernist effects of
Bright Lights, Big City...I am curious as to whether
these philosophers of Textuality have mental models of
the "average" person as being basically ANOTHER white,
urban, educated, well-read ( for the most part
)agile-brained person who can BE inundated and
effected by the "proliferation of signs" in the FIRST
place....I mean, since one responder to my loose
polemic used Einstein's famous remark " Imagination is
more important than knowledge" as a retort to me,
let's imagine that 15 year old Tugu on Madagascar or a
a starving Ethiopean...does he or she REALLY process
and respond to the world around them in terms the way
Baudrillard believes his peers do? I mean, like,
dude!: here I am a  Bushman wondering whether or not
my emaciated cow will provide and y chees this
month...am I REALLY suffering from a head swirling
with signifiers that distort my view of Reality...or
have ANY effect on my cognition at all?...see, IF a
guy like him is goiing to make a case for something,
some process of the mind that works in people in
Chicago say, then it stands to reason it should
operate on them ( or in them ) in Botswana... since ,
not being a racist, we would presume he believes all
human brains work the same way everywhere...shouldn't
he go out and actually gather some impressions, some
evidence from such folk? And IF it doesn't work in
them, then seems to me he needs to revise this thesis
to make allowances for such non-Post-modernist
people...if they have no exposure or little access to
the very things that MAKE the post-modern world a
post-modern world, then the "condition" is very
contingent, isn't it? And if it is contingent, what is
it contingent ON exactly? Does he have a hypothesis?

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:

> To be honest about it: no idea.
> 
> There are about 800 to 850 million people starving
> in Africa. This is 
> surely no argument against the Critical Theory.
> 
> In the end it doesn't matter if you die at 12 of
> starvation or at 55 of 
> cancer.
> Nobody gets out here alive!
> 
> Otto
> 
> John Doe wrote:
> 
> >Hmmmm....y'know...I have wondered...what does
> >Baudrillard have to say about the
> post-moderinization
> >of say a poor , starving Ethiopean 12 year old?
> Does
> >that child's mindscape partake of the
> post-modernist
> >impingements on the psyche, just the way that an
> >adult, white French educated male's does? things
> that
> >make ya go hmmmmmmmmmm....
> >  
> >
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