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How We Got Here: An Intellectual History

JL;DR SUMMARY The article explores how postmodernism (PoMo) fell from prominence and was replaced by a new "Woko" ideology, characterized by its rigid, absolute truths primarily centered around race and gender. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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SlaveryPhilosophyCultural CritiquePostmodernismEnlightenmentIntellectual HistoryWokenessRelativismWestern HistoryWoko

Places mentioned

Czechia
"In 1971, when Philip Roth first visited Czechoslovakiathen under Soviet dominationhe was struck by how different that literary world was from his own."
New York, United States
"During the decades of postmodernism, I was active as a daily music critic and then as a broader-based culture critic for the New York Times."
Israel
"including a commitment to the land from which the Jews were once exiled, but to which they began to return in numbers beginning in the late-19th century."

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