Your criticism would sting more if I hadn't labeled it as such.
If you'd like another example of an "absorbing barrier", an HN comment has a limit on how long it is permitted to be. Therefore, all comments that would be longer than that are comments that can not be made. It is probably not unreasonable to state that even a slightly adequate summary of an entire philosophy would not fit within that limit. Therefore, no Hacker News comment can contain a true summary of an entire philosophy. Therefore it is not reasonable to expect a Hacker News comment to contain an accurate summary of an entire philosophy.
Besides, there's another "absorbing barrier" in that I'm not interested in writing that long of a summary anyhow, when they already exist.
Finally, postmodernism's very nature allows it to be a bit of a moving target, where any time someone makes any criticism of it a postmodernist can say with a straight face that that is not what postmodernism is, and no matter what you point at, nope, that's not where postmodernism is. I reject that. What I said may not be the totality of postmodernism, but it is accurate, in that there are definitely postmodernists who operate under the beliefs I described, and the existence of even a branch of postmodernism that believes what I said is sufficient for the point to be an interesting and valid criticism of those beliefs. Personally it is my considered opinion that this is a foundational belief of the entire philosophy and it falls apart entirely if it is destroyed, and there's just varying levels of how obfuscated they manage to make the fact that this is a foundational belief of theirs, but your mileage may vary.
If you'd like another example of an "absorbing barrier", an HN comment has a limit on how long it is permitted to be. Therefore, all comments that would be longer than that are comments that can not be made. It is probably not unreasonable to state that even a slightly adequate summary of an entire philosophy would not fit within that limit. Therefore, no Hacker News comment can contain a true summary of an entire philosophy. Therefore it is not reasonable to expect a Hacker News comment to contain an accurate summary of an entire philosophy.
Besides, there's another "absorbing barrier" in that I'm not interested in writing that long of a summary anyhow, when they already exist.
Finally, postmodernism's very nature allows it to be a bit of a moving target, where any time someone makes any criticism of it a postmodernist can say with a straight face that that is not what postmodernism is, and no matter what you point at, nope, that's not where postmodernism is. I reject that. What I said may not be the totality of postmodernism, but it is accurate, in that there are definitely postmodernists who operate under the beliefs I described, and the existence of even a branch of postmodernism that believes what I said is sufficient for the point to be an interesting and valid criticism of those beliefs. Personally it is my considered opinion that this is a foundational belief of the entire philosophy and it falls apart entirely if it is destroyed, and there's just varying levels of how obfuscated they manage to make the fact that this is a foundational belief of theirs, but your mileage may vary.