@toiletpaper @amerika @dj @ins0mniak @lanodan @phnt @polarisera @ryan

> It's so damned true about so many things.

It's practically a law of human nature: every time someone looks like an idiot but has a position that precludes the possibility that he's an idiot, he's playing a different game than the one he claims to be playing, and if he doesn't get fired/executed/whatever, then he's doing a good job, meaning that whoever is above him wants him playing that game.

If you read politics around the turn of the 20th century, there was this feeling that we'd reached the End of Science and we'd figured it all out and anything we learned was just filling in the blanks, and that the next step was to reform society "scientifically". Even Marx sold communism as a "scientific" means of social organization. Post-modernism gets a lot of shit for the "there is no such thing as truth" proposition, but it was modernism that introduced the idea that society run much better if it was planned from the top. The thing is that "better" is subjective: it goes much better for anyone at the top when the people at the top direct society, but does not go much better for society. That is, post-modern philosophy rejected the wrong premise.