The Postmodern Condition

Um, but we're gonna call him that.

When I was reading Political Ponerology, anyway, that's the author, um, I w- I, I was struck by this idea of a paramorality and a paralogical system, which I then connected immediately in my mind to Jean-François Lyotard, the, uh, postmodernist philosopher who wrote The Postmodern Condition in nineteen seventy-nine, who's got this section in the middle of the book about something he calls legitimation by paralogy, which is a big fancy way of saying that you believe things are true because of consensus or some other false method of making them appear logical, reasonable, and real.

And he was writing a completely batshit insane, uh, critique of the sciences, which he accused of just being a social construction and therefore not a actual, uh, program for legitimizing ideas about the world.

And so science also was a form of legitimation by paralogy.