Latest hits: if gender is performative that means it’s fake and patriarchy doesn’t exist! I don’t know who Judith Butler is!
I am not sure what conversation you may be referring to OP, but in general I think some post modern schools of thought have a danger of getting high on their own farts, and sometimes it’s important to push back so we don’t lose grip on reality.
Yes, there’s a lot in society which is just frameworks and practices, but the nature of reality insists on a fundamental truth, always and forever. Maybe that’s just my materialist bias.
You want to make me even more tired than I already am?
Don’t take the bait then 😘
Edit I mean any time anyone makes a comment which makes you tired :3
Well yes you are absolutely correct from a materialist standpoint. If you limit reality to material things, then truths are limited to material knowledge. Emergent properties such as subjective experience, society/culture, and ultimately meaning and meaningfulness are excluded from what is considered reality and truth, except for their material correlates. And this is why philosophers moved on from materialism because, while highly fruitful, it was ultimately insufficient in capturing all forms of knowledge.
I prefer a pragmatic blend of constructivist realism.
Except they didn’t move from it, but now I am tired lol
