literary deconstructionism and sarah palin
October 22nd, 2008 • culture
John Hodgman, interviewed at The AV Club:
I am someone who values truth—actual truth as opposed to “truthiness.” I am also someone who has been trained in deconstruction in the literary theory department of Yale University, so I am someone who is tempted to believe that no absolute truth is possible.
And in a very weird way, my leftist postmodern leanings and relativism has put me directly in line with the contemporary Republican Party. The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.
So if you’re looking for another reason why “elitists” disdain Sarah Palin - it’s because they’re/we’re all too familiar with this flavour of bullshit.
