This is the same exact viewpoint I’ve heard college educated types express in regards to Marxism over and over. Like a “Marx’s works are really interesting, but Marxists are the worst. I’d hate to be like them. Anyway I’m a Foucaultian epistemological positivist with influence from blah blah blah academic jargon.”
Isn’t it funny how all these people have all these super important and super complex worldviews which are so extremely cultivated and worked out and yet they never translate to anything in the real world?
well yeah of course. when your most deeply ingrained value is just commodity fetishism, every aspect of one’s personhood becomes available for commodification. your beliefs are just something you consume as part of the spectacle or whatnot.
This is the same exact viewpoint I’ve heard college educated types express in regards to Marxism over and over. Like a “Marx’s works are really interesting, but Marxists are the worst. I’d hate to be like them. Anyway I’m a Foucaultian epistemological positivist with influence from blah blah blah academic jargon.”
Isn’t it funny how all these people have all these super important and super complex worldviews which are so extremely cultivated and worked out and yet they never translate to anything in the real world?
Sometimes they get jobs as grifters at pointless think tanks if that counts
well yeah of course. when your most deeply ingrained value is just commodity fetishism, every aspect of one’s personhood becomes available for commodification. your beliefs are just something you consume as part of the spectacle or whatnot.
Yeeeeup. Worked with a dude getting his philosophy masters and the goal is basically to be not wrong but also totally useless.