Reply #13: I think that there does have to be

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reconstruction to balance deconstruction. It may just be because that's how I think of things as an artist.


It's easy to say that there is no "God" , the patriarchy is fucked up, etc. But I get the feeling that some people are opposed to the idea of creation - esp. the creation of new "meta-narratives" or whatever.

There was the question about whether the US is stuck in postmodernism. Maybe the idea - is that we are obsessed so much about deconstruction that we can't see any way out.


OTOH - some people still need to get over the old ideas -

I read a really scary thing today by someone who blames everything on feminism - as if that is an excuse to not have any social programs, that is the excuse to do whatever can be done to keep women poor enough that they have to stay married. It was hard to believe that anyone could have that point of view - but there it was. Someone who wants to reconstruct society back to what it was in the 50's or something. Bah.