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Stephen Hicks on Postmodernism and Nietzsche
There is a video on YouTube which I have just watched now where Stephen Hicks “analysis” the postmodernists using Nietzsche’s concept of “ressentiment” which basically means “resentment”. In this post I am going to reconstruct his main argument and will argue that Nietzsche was already fundamentally mistaken in his analysis and Hicks is doing even worse by reapplying it.
First what we need to do is to define postmodernism. Hicks does not do this in this clip, but I am going to give him the benefit of doubt that this clip is from a longer lecture and he defines postmodernism at some point. Postmodernism is notoriously difficult to define, since this word is used for such a diverse set of people that it is hard to find a common thread running between all of them. I am going to use the most common definition, which is that postmodernism is scepticism about metanarratives. A metanarrative is a kind of framework which is meant to explain the course of history. For example a metanarrative would be that social progress represents the will of god, or that Marxist class struggle is the key to understanding history. As we can see already here there is a tension between postmodernism and Marxism, to which I am going to refer back later.
Next we need to present Nietzsche’s original idea. As Hicks correctly says Nietzsche differentiates between master and slave morality. Master morality is the morality of the “strong” the “life affirming”. Slave morality is the morality of the “weak” the “cowardly”. The masters resent the slaves and the slave resents the masters. But the slaves also resent themselves because actually they are envious of the masters. This makes them bitter and since they cannot confront the masters due to them being weak they try to hurt them by more insidious ways, such as telling lies. Now Hicks does not give us the full picture here. In Nietzsche’s view the main representative of slave morality is Christianity itself. Hicks lists patience, obedience, humility, and being on the side of the weak as values for the slave morality which are clearly Christian values, while he lists: aggressiveness, pride, independence, physically or materially success as the values of master morality. Of course what is a value or good for one is evil for the other. If Hicks told his audience this he would have alienated a large part of it. Even worse Nietzsche was an antidemocratic thinker, and thought democracy was slave morality as well, he says in Beyond Good and Evil that “the democratic movement is the heir of the Christian movement”, this would have alienated another large part.
At this point I would just like to point out the obvious: it is silly to think that those who are for example materially successful (and hence independent) are like that because they are somehow by nature “stronger”. If we consider a cast society where you are either born rich and inherit wealth or you are born poor without any chance of owning wealth then you would be rightly angry because you were never given a chance. So Nietzsche is completely wrong, the “weak” were “weak” for social reasons not because they were inherently weak and the “strong” were also “strong” for social reasons. And of course this has nothing really to do with who embraces the Christian faith and who does not. Christian religion is not a conspiracy against the strong by the weak. Nietzsche is doing real scholarly work in setting up his “theory”, he is just daydreaming. It is also funny to note that Nietzsche accuses Christians for being resentful while he himself is being clearly resentful towards Christians.
Now let’s see Hicks argument.
Hicks assumes that postmodernists are just socialists in disguise. This is already a very weak generalisation. Why would socialists/Marxists need to hide behind postmodernism? Terry Eagleton and Richard D. Wolff are Marxists and they don’t seem to need to disguise themselves. Eagleton is actually critical of postmodernism which is quite understandable given his Marxist stance and the definition of postmodernism we have given above. Fredric Jameson is associated with postmodernism yet he too does not shy away from calling himself a Marxist. The two examples Hick himself gives are Stanley Fish and Andrea Dworkin.
Stanley Fish has supposedly called all opponents of affirmative action “bigots” and lumped these people with the Ku Klux Klan. I couldn’t find the exact text for this but it seems this is from Fish’s book “There's No Such Thing As Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too”.
Andrea Dworkin supposedly said “all heterosexual men are rapists”. For this I have found a Guardian article, which I am going to quote now:
“The attacks on Dworkin were not only personal; they also applied to her work. John Berger once called Dworkin "the most misrepresented writer in the western world". She has always been seen as the woman who said that all men are rapists, and that all sex is rape. In fact, she said neither of these things. Here's what she told me in 1997: "If you believe that what people call normal sex is an act of dominance, where a man desires a woman so much that he will use force against her to express his desire, if you believe that's romantic, that's the truth about sexual desire, then if someone denounces force in sex it sounds like they're denouncing sex. If conquest is your mode of understanding sexuality, and the man is supposed to be a predator, and then feminists come along and say, no, sorry, that's using force, that's rape - a lot of male writers have drawn the conclusion that I'm saying all sex is rape." In other words, it's not that all sex involves force, but that all sex which does involve force is rape.”
So it seems if this article is right then clearly Hicks is misrepresenting Dworkin which is bad enough but there is another question: what does she have to do with postmodernism? Yes, Stanley Fish is considered a postmodern literary critic, but Andrea Dworkin is a feminist author, and unless feminism is inherently postmodern she couldn’t really be called a postmodern thinker.
So already Hicks is on shaky ground assuming that postmodernism is just a disguise for socialists. But let’s move on.
What Hicks does next is basically just recasting postmodernists in the role of slaves and capitalists in the role of masters. The idea is that postmodernists are just socialists who were defeated and so they are now the representatives of slave morality. Again if the conservative audience were informed about Nietzsche’s original target, it would be really funny to see how they would have reacted when Hicks basically assigns traditional Christian values to postmodernism.
So for him the capitalists are the strong and the socialists are the weak. But since they are weak they cannot confront the capitalists, all they can use are words. According to Hicks deconstruction is the method of the defeated socialists which they use for this purpose. Deconstruction originates from the work of Jacques Derrida, and it became popular in literary criticism, it is clearly not a weapon to destroy the achievements of western culture. Hicks tells us about a dismissive deconstructive reading of Shakespeare but does not tell us about the author, so I couldn’t check his example. But even if he is right about that specific piece, are we seriously supposed to think that all literary critics who employ deconstruction in their readings of texts are secret socialists who in face hate literature and because literary critics just to destroy it?
Hicks tells us about two “examples” from the visual arts to illustrate this malicious intention. His examples are two works from Marcel Duchamp: Fountain so called readymade sculpture, which is actually a porcelain urinal and L.H.O.O.Q. which is a parody of the Mona Lisa. Now I find this part the most embarrassing. Hicks is not willing to engage with Duchamp’s work. He claims that Duchamp is just envious of past masters and realizing that since he himself is incapable to creating such works decides to destroy art for the sheer thrill of destruction. Marcel Duchamp is one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th century. This simplistic idea that Duchamp is just filled with rage and resentment because of his own lack of talent is such an simplistic understanding of his work that it is simply not worth discussing. I would just like to remind Hicks that earlier he criticized postmodernism for ad hominem so it is quite surprising that now he himself makes one against Duchamp. I would also like to assure Stephen Hicks that Duchamp did not destroy anything; the Mona Lisa is still the world’s most recognized painting and is still displayed in the Louvre. It is actually hard to see the relevance of these examples: I guess the examples were only meant to illustrate how the slaves can hurt the masters but how is Marcel Duchamp a representative of slave morality here? The Fountain is from 1913 and L.H.O.O.Q, is from 1919 long before the postmodern philosophy. Hicks told us that deconstruction is weapon of the postmodern but Derrida, the inventor of this “weapon” was not even born yet.
Finally it seems postmodernist didn’t even need deconstruction since all they do is spread lies. Hicks says that the worst way to hurt a family man is to accuse him being child molesters or to hurt a women is to say that she is a gold-diggers. Now again I must point out the obvious that spreading such lies has nothing to do with being a leftist or a postmodernist. This is the oldest trick in the book and is done constantly on all political sides. Hicks draws an analogy with spreading such lies about people to lying about western civilisation itself. So accusations of racism and intolerance are somehow only lies about western civilization. I think there are many episodes in history where the west could not live up to its own expectation. Slavery and segregation in the United States or colonisation by Europeans are clear examples and only a delusional person could dismiss criticism for these terrible acts. The west must face up to the horrible things it caused.
There is an important point here, which is only obscured by Hicks, so let me turn now to a much more capable philosopher: Richard Rorty. Rorty in his book “Achieving our Country” discusses similar issues as Hicks does here, but his presentation is much more sympathetic and insightful. Rorty says that national pride for a country is like self-esteem for person, without it there is not much hope for a change for the better. He acknowledges that the United States did some horrible things, and he says that the new left deserve praise for calling attention to racism, misogyny, and the status of sexual minorities. However, Rorty thniks the truly important question is if we believe that things can be changed for the better within the current political system or not. His complaint is that many on the new left seem to think that the US has passed redemption and they turn away from everyday political matters to academic theorizing. Rorty regrets this outcome and proposes that we take inspiration from the progressive era. I think Rorty’s advice here is just what we need in our time, and what we really don’t need is the kind of moral panic Stephen Hicks represents here.
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Photography by J Stephen Hicks
- Playmen, July 1981
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A young Eddie!!!
I have never seen this photo before and... once I found it I asked permission to post it (because it was autographed) from a nice Irish gentleman who founded a blog on all the actors and their autographs.
So, thanks a lot to Liam Bluett and many greetings from Italy!!
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Stephen Avenue, Calgary (No. 3)
The Paskapoo Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Middle to Late Paleocene age in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. The Paskapoo underlies much of southwestern Alberta, and takes the name from the Blindman River (paskapiw means 'He is blind' in Cree. It was first described from outcrops along that river, near its confluence with the Red Deer River north of the city of Red Deer, by Joseph Tyrrell in 1887. It is important for its freshwater aquifers, its coal resources, and its fossil record, as well as having been the source of sandstone for the construction of fire-resistant buildings in Calgary during the early 1900s.
During the early 1900s, outcrops of Paskapoo sandstone in the Calgary area were quarried for building stone due to the requirement for fire-resistant buildings following the Calgary Fire of 1886. Many of Calgary's early landmark buildings, such as Lougheed House, Burns Manor, and some of the buildings along Stephen Avenue, were built using Paskapoo sandstone, and Calgary became known as the Sandstone City.
Paskapoo sandstone is still used in landscaping in the Calgary area today.
Source: Wikipedia
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Six Plays by Alan Bennett: Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1.1, LWT, 1978)
"She's not one of these lesbians, is she?"
"What do you know about lesbians?"
"You'd be surprised at what I know. There's more in my head than nits. Oh, there was a talk about them on Woman's Hour. Cos I can't see what folks make all the fuss about. It's only women and other women. Like me and Mrs. Goodall."
"You and Mrs. Goodall?"
"Friends! Doing things together."
"Doing what together?"
"Having tea at Marshall and Snelgrove's."
"Having tea at Marshall and Snelgrove's isn't lesbianism."
"It's only liking being with other women."
"Not in Marshall and Snelgrove's."
"Well, where, then?"
"Bed. You brought the subject up."
"Well. So. Anyway, I've been in bed with other women."
"Who?"
"Your Aunty Phyllis, for a start."
"Aunty Phyllis isn't women!"
#six plays by alan bennett#me! i'm afraid of virginia woolf#alan bennett#single play#classic tv#queer tv#stephen frears#neville smith#thora hird#carol macready#derek thompson#bernard wrigley#gillian martell#barbara hicks#janine duvitski#hugh lloyd#margaret courtenay#lynne carol#alan igbon#Bennett spent the 70s slowly reinventing himself from a sketch comic for higher into the literary legend he's now best known as. he'd had#notable success with his single play A Day Out at the start of the decade‚ but getting this series of six one off dramas was a real#watershed moment in his career and set his path towards film work and Talking Heads and pop culture immortality. it's a familiarly Bennett#piece‚ complete with autobiographical insert; there's no doubt that Neville Smith is channelling the author in his thick rimmed glasses and#softly spoken downbeat yorkshire melody. Smith is Trevor‚ a listless academic caught up in pre midlife ennui‚ and quietly despairing of the#life‚ career‚ and unhappy (heterosexual) love affair he's built around himself. he's very good but risks being overshadowed by a series of#supports that deliver some of the writers best‚ most caustic dialogue: Thora Hird shines as his uncompromising and unbending mother‚ Hugh#Lloyd is brilliant as one of his mature students (an elderly quasi fascist obsessed with the horse whipping of delinquents) and the much#under appreciated Thompson is magnetic as the aggressive‚ arrogant‚ but sexually ambiguous (and ultimate symbol of freedom and self#knowledge) Skinner. densely scripted and packed with jokes that are both broadly scatalogical and intellectually highbrow‚ this is a real#gem of a piece. that opinion was widely shared; the play was nominated for three baftas at the 1979 awards
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'Hearts in Atlantis' – Stephen King's coming-of-age tale on Max
Stephen King’s name is synonymous with modern horror and Hearts in Atlantis (2001) does indeed reverberate with suggestions of the dark side. Ultimately, however, it’s a story of the magic and wonder of childhood confronting the lies of the adult world and the predators that bully the weak. It’s closer to Stand By Me than The Stand, and closer still to the Ray Bradbury’s beautiful stories of…
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(Part Two) Fan Expo Vancouver 2023 and Some Good News!
Part Two of my #fanexpovancouver2023 @fanexpovan report is here! And I got some great pics of a few of the top names as they talk about their work, a recap and more! #conventionreport #pacificnorthwest #stephenammell #michaelrooker #anthonydaniels
At Fan Expo Vancouver 2023, the many choices of what one can choose to focus on is wide and varied. When you stick around in the main staging area where all the Q&As happen, something entirely random can delight! I spent the second and third day mostly in this area since the rest of the gymnasium space was often packed. Between the panels, I often returned to Artists Alley and also Celebrity Row…
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#2023#Anthony Daniels#British Columbia#Convention Report#Faith Erin Hicks#Fan Expo Vancouver#Michael Rooker#Stephen Amell#Vancouver
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GRAHAM NASH PASSES AWAY DURING CHILDBIRTH
Singer-Songwriter Graham Nash, aged 82, has passed away during childbirth. Nash, well-known for his high tenor and his career in Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and the Hollies, had been carrying a baby for 9 long months. However, his brittle bones and twig-like figure simply couldn’t handle it. He quietly went during the late hours of Sunday night.
“I can’t believe it,” says Allan Clarke, founding member of the Hollies as well as childhood friend of Graham Nash. “I was in bed with him last night. I am shocked to lose him so suddenly.”
“That’s fucking insane,” says Stephen Stills. “How did he even carry that thing?”
“I knew it,” Joni Mitchell. She had always attested to Nash’s delicate nature, even during the first days of their relationship together. “I always knew it would end like this…”
Nash’s other bandmates, Neil Young and David Crosby did not respond with any comments. However, another member of the Hollies, Tony Hicks, had something to say.
“Mpreg is real?” Hicks asked. He was soon too stunned to speak any further.
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Photography by J Stephen Hicks
- Playmen, July 1981
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Quotes I live by: Loa edition
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
~Napoleon Hill
“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.”
~James Allen
“Create your future from your future, not from your past.”
~ Dr. Joe Dispenza
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The law of consciousness is like a coin: heads, you win; tails, you lose. It is up to you to choose the outcome of your life.”
~Stephen Richards
“You will become as small as your controlling desire, and as great as your dominant aspiration”
~James Allen
“If something you want is slow to come to you, it can be for only one reason: You are spending more time focused upon its absence than you are about its presence."
~ABRAHAM HICKS
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedom—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
~ Viktor Frankl
"The point of power is always in the present moment."
~Louise Hay
"The only limit to what we can achieve is the power of our own minds."
~ Henry Ford
“You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.”
~Dr. Robert Anthony
“Your opinion is your opinion, your perception is your perception, change them and you change your life."
~Wayne Dayer
“Paradoxically, what works against us also works for us. If you can dream it, and believe it, then you can do it!”
~Tony Robbins
“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
~Henry ford
“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities.”
Dale Carnegie
"You are responsible for your life and the power of your consciousness. Nothing can stop you from fulfilling your true potential."
~Deepak Chopra
"Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world." ~Unknown
"The key to success is the power of imagination. Create an image of what you want and make it your focus."
~Tony Robbins
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in; their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.”
~ Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Born in Chicago, Illinois, USA in August 1964, Boyle graduated from High School in 1982 and moved to Kailua, Hawaii to work as a waitress, before moving to Los Angeles, breaking up with her boyfriend and deciding to become a nude model. Initially she posed for photographers like J. Stephen Hicks with her photographs appearing magazines like Gallery, however she eventually posed for Playboy magazines and became a favourite model of it's readers, appearing in dozens of issues from 1995 right through to the early 2000's. In addition she also made bit appearances in dozens of Hollywood movies and TV series, mostly appearing as the "sexy girl", including Earth Girls Are Easy, Bad Boys, Showgirls, Baywatch, Married... With Children and the Nutty Professor. She also appeared as a video vixen for acts such as Aerosmith and Warren G.
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writeblr interview tag!
Thank you to loves @the-golden-comet and @sableglass for tagging me here and here. I need you know I made a serious effort not to be a sarcastic asshole as I answered these questions... four days ago. And then forgot to post them.
Let's ggo!
Short stories, novels, or poems? I published short stories in a previous life, but I suck at following prompts or instructions and have accepted my fate as a novelist.
What genre do you prefer reading? Horror. I'm in my post-cosmic horror era right now. Existential. Yeah. Although I don't write folk horror myself (I'm thinking Laird Barron, T. Kingfisher, Stephen Graham Jones) I do enjoy folk horror v much. Bonus points if the protagonists are middle-aged and it's not about how apartments/houses or children are scary. (No hate to domestic horror, I'm just not the target audience.)
Are you a planner or a write as I go kind of person? The first draft is me explaining the Situation to myself. If it happens to make even a tiny bit of sense, we're all lucky. Like, that almost never fucking happens. I didn't show Doom Metal Love Story to anyone until the third/fourth draft because any sense it makes came from me rambling at my roommate in the kitchen while high off my ass at ten in the morning last autumn.
I'm a rambler, baby~
What music do you listen to while writing? That depends! Most of the time it's the soundtrack of whatever video game I wish I were playing instead of working LOL. I've always been like this, it's not cute. Sometimes I rotate in a specific heavy metal album I've heard a million times if the vibes aren't right. If I'm really having a good day, it's '80s music.
Favorite books/movies? Yeah man I have some of those!
Favorite book is House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. Yes I realize this is a corny and uninspired answer. This book whipped ass when it was published and it whipped ass when I reread it in 2014 and I'm willing to bet money it would whip ass if I reread it in [current year].
Favorite movie is Aliens. The second one. It's the perfect movie. I refuse to acknowledge any film in the series other than Alien and Aliens. Corporal Hicks and Newt are still alive, you sons of bitches.
Any current WIPs? Yes.
If someone were to make a cartoon out of you what would your standard outfit be? A hooded sweatshirt, jeans, no shoes unless I'm out in public. Then it's flip flops. Fingerless gloves if it's chilly and muh arthritis is acting up.
Create a character description of yourself: The smell of pot smoke and the clicking of keystrokes barely penetrates the unopened window. Occasionally, they step out onto the back deck to smoke a cigarette and simultaneously praise and complain about the sun. They might be in their forties. They might own a cat. No one can agree on their height or their gender or whether they actually exist. Can only be contacted through instant message or email. Might be a ghost.
Do you like incorporating actual people you know into your writing? Hell, no LMAO. When I realize I've done it accidentally, I feel like I just got read by a therapist.
Are you kill happy with your characters? I may have killed all three main characters in DMLS multiple times, killed Khalid (from A Living Machine) when he was 12, in front of everybody, and I may intend to kill every character who appears in The Cave Dive, but...
... yeah OK there's something wrong with me.
Coffee or Tea while writing? Coffee all day every day.
Slow or fast writer? I type like someone is threatening to tickle my feet if I stop.
Where/who/what do you draw inspiration from? Uhhhhhhhh...
"OK yeah like that initial idea would be cool and all but make it worse."
If you were in a fantasy world, what would you be?
Most fav book cliche: This author comes from the land of "all cliches suck and should be avoided like the plague."
Least favorite cliche: Like the plague.
Favorite scene to write? Fight scenes. If I can't write a fight scene, let me write a fuck scene.
... why do I not write hockey romances, again?
Reason for writing? I've tried all other legitimate forms of occupation. This is the only one that rewards me for my ability to make shit up and type 40 wpm in first draft mode.
Tag! Usual apologizes for double-tagging go here, Jamie is silly.
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#writeblr interview tag#sorry to everyone who doesn't “get” the d20 gif answer--i must have thought it was funny four days ago but now i'm like “WHAT DID I MEAN”#smoke weed -> save as draft -> surprise future you
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