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0027 Chapter Five is titled, “Campus Lunacy: The Rise of the Social Justice Warrior”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I continue with gender as the exemplar concern.  In the perspective-level of the previous diagram, being oppressed2c<\/sub> is a feminine trait2c<\/sub>.  On the situation level, the normal context of social construction3b<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of gender as a personal choice2b<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the potential of human will1b<\/sub><\/em>.  The human will1b<\/sub><\/em> is so relevant, that it makes biological distinctions1a<\/sub><\/em> irrelevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once biological distinctions1a<\/sub> are irrelevant, then all orthodox views3a<\/sub> of men and women2a<\/sub> no longer matter.  Orthodox views3a<\/sub> concerning the biological distinctions1a<\/sub> between men and women2a<\/sub><\/em> have been around a long time.  The first great epic of the Greek language, The Iliad<\/em>, revolves around that distinction.  Paris kidnaps Helen and brings her to Troy and triggers the Trojan War.  The unique masterpiece of the Jewish and Christian tradition<\/em> starts in the Garden of Eden with the distinction between man and woman<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0028 Social construction<\/em> replaces any need for the so-called “Western canon”<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indeed, social construction offers an alternate content level, allowing me to depict the following speculative diagram, based on the title of chapter five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Figure 10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

0029 Yes, once feminism triumps, the situation level shifts to the content level.  A new “humanities”2a<\/sub> must be constructed3a<\/sub> in order to aesthetically represent the potential of the relevance of the human will1a<\/sub> (over biological distinctions1a<\/sub>)<\/em> and to politically portray gender as a personal choice2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There goes the Iliad<\/em> and the Bible<\/em>.  Fare thee well, Western civilization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0030 Of course, the alternative literature of the nouvelle academics<\/em> must be situated by the patriarchy1b<\/sub>,<\/em> as the potential from which arises the unspeakable horrors of well… those throwbacks who still are talking about the biological differences between men and women<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call them “scientists”.  Call them “humanists”.  Call them “religious”.  They are overruled by the critique of dark illumination3b<\/sub>.  Ssocial construction3a<\/sub>, not orthodox views3a<\/sub>, should define the content level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0031 Remember the so-called College of Arts and Sciences?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us now advocate for a new coalition of social inquiries<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

May we call it the College of Social Constuction?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0032 Take a closer look at the above figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several postmodern themes intertwine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0033 On the content level, radical individualism<\/em> predominates.  For other brands of social construction, replace “gender” with “the issue du jour”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0034 On the situation level, Marxism<\/em> stands out.  The “patriarchy” is the “system”.  The “system” is a term that substitutes for “capitalism”, along with its attendant division between the “bourgeois” and the “proletariat”.<\/em>  The “system” injects a fantastic fluidity into the Marxist tradition<\/em>.  A phantasmic dyad2b<\/sub> of dark illumination3b<\/sub><\/em> always manifests as oppressor and oppressed<\/em>.  Another term for dark illumination3b<\/sub><\/em> is “critical theory”3b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0035 On the perspective level, American big government (il)liberalism<\/em> blossoms.  Who provides the protection1c<\/sub> and the privileged status for the oppressed2c<\/sub>?  It is the federal government.  Another term for protection1c<\/sub> is “safe space”.  Another term for light illumination3c<\/sub> is “social justice”3c<\/sub>.  The lawyer who sues for the causes of the ones privileged to be called, “oppressed”,<\/em> is a “social-justice warrior”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

0027 Chapter Five is titled, “Campus Lunacy: The Rise of the Social Justice Warrior”. 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