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A Halfling’s View's avatar

Can I just say how thrilled it am that there have been so many comments on a tricky topic. This has been the greatest number of comments so far and it is really gratifying that so many of you have chosen to engage and to converse with one another.

There will be another post out on Monday and possibly another as well on the Broadcasting scene (still in the "I must think about this before I push send" basket) and then I will take some time off until early next year. But I will be gathering material and I am sure that the new lot in Wellington (if they ever get to make up their minds) will provide plenty of fodder for my pen - yes - every outline is written with fountain pen on paper.

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Aroha's avatar

This shines a real light on a subject I've struggled to understand. In this endeavour I've waded through various explications of critical theory and postmodernism eg some of the Stanford explanations, but they all have in common the criticism made by Rex Gibson, who argues "that critical theory suffers from being cliquish, conformist, elitist, immodest, anti-individualist, naivety, being too critical, and being contradictory." Couldn't have put it better myself.

Once again, thanks for your lucidity David, and the time it might have taken you to untangle it to make more digestible sense!

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