> The French intellectuals tend to be ... media stars. The French intellectuals are taken very seriously. They're on the front pages of Le Monde... If you want to be taken seriously, you have to have something exciting to say... And it's not easy to come up with exciting new ideas, so you have to come up with crazy ideas. Then they can make it to the front pages... One of the ways to have exciting new ideas is to tear everything to shreds and say everything is wrong: "The Enlightenment is wrong [etc.]"
Deconstructionism is a tragic mess. Tragic because the benefits it gave are getting overshadowed by base destruction with little to no return, and in fact a net cost as we relearn old lessons with real human consequences in the gap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cqTE_bPh7M
> The French intellectuals tend to be ... media stars. The French intellectuals are taken very seriously. They're on the front pages of Le Monde... If you want to be taken seriously, you have to have something exciting to say... And it's not easy to come up with exciting new ideas, so you have to come up with crazy ideas. Then they can make it to the front pages... One of the ways to have exciting new ideas is to tear everything to shreds and say everything is wrong: "The Enlightenment is wrong [etc.]"