A Comedian's View on Postmodernism

Title says it all.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• postmodernism
• logic
• rhetoric

[Philosoraptus]

LMAO...he supposed to be on Letterman...he actually has grey hair...hard to believe all the celebrities we know are getting older.

[Philosoraptus]

@AceSkepTik---lmao

[lconrad]

Poet, not comedian.

[arknihil]

This man pretty much nailed everything I find wrong with my generation.

[hb0x]

this was shown in a lecture i attended last week in my uni. Awkwardly, not a single soul laughed. OO

[luccaskunk]

@LightWthoutTheStatic That's kind of my point. The more knowledgeable someone is, the less conviction they speak with on the subject. And all I asked originally, which started the argument, is "why is admitting that you don't know everything, and choosing your words to qualify that, a bad thing?"

[LightWthoutTheStatic]

@luccaskunk I don't mean to step into this argument, but I just wanted to interject the side note that arrogance is essentially confidence with a foundation of ignorance. It's the "supposing to know" merely by self assertion. It is interesting that the more one knows about a subject, the more wary they become of saying that they really 'know', but that may actually be the image of confidence without ignorance. They no longer self assert, but confidently and humbly move forward.

[wildabeast11235]

Conviction? Well, how can we separate the reproduction of the image of conviction from the production itself? Indeed, was there ever an original conviction in the first place? Or did the simulation produce the production?

[luccaskunk]

@Watermark0n I'm sure you're rather knowledgable on one or a number of subjects. Can you think of anything where you've seen a newbie come into it, they think they know everything, and all you can really say about it is "it's a lot more complicated than you think it is."

A first year grad student will confidently assert they know their subject. A senior will discuss it with you over lunch, a professor will need a cup of coffee and a long afternoon.

[luccaskunk]

@Watermark0n Yeaaaaaah... That's your argument "you're stupid, kill yourself".

I advise you to look up something called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. It's a commonly observed phenomenon in psychology. Basically, the more someone knows about a subject, the less confident they are about that subject. It's counter intuitive, but it's very true in most circumstances. As one philosopher put it, ignorance more often begets confidence than does knowledge.

[Watermark0n]

@luccaskunk God you're an idiot. You just have multiple layers of stupidity, as I slowly unwind your comment and simply stand in awe of your masterpiece of dumbassness. Kill yourself.

[Watermark0n]

@luccaskunk If failing to acknowledge that you could be wrong is conviction, then conviction is stupidity, and we should be glad to be rid of it. Why do you think that conviction is stupidity? Why do you think that we should act foolishly, and pretend that that which may not be certainly is, you fucking idiot? Yes, I do know that this comedian was advocating stupidity and foolishness, and I was criticizing him for that.

[luccaskunk]

@Watermark0n Sorry, I seem to have missed the part where acknowledging that you could be wrong is in any way having conviction. You also seem to have missed the part where this "comedian" was making fun of people who do admit that they might be wrong.

[Watermark0n]

One can believe something with conviction and yet acknowledge the fact that it could be wrong. It would be foolish not to.