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I was forced to read this in freshman English… it was awful. Realized you could make it say whatever you want and used that for the essay I wrote
by emit_time 2y ago
I was forced to read this in freshman English… it was awful. Realized you could make it say whatever you want and used that for the essay I wrote
- Cheer2171 2y agoYou're right, English teachers should only be teaching works of literature that have one and only one objectively correct interpretation, like the Bible.
- noch 2y ago> [T]eachers should only be teaching works of literature that have one and only one objectively correct interpretation, like the Bible. That's a non-sequitur. What they are saying is that: "if a text can mean anything, then by definition it means nothing." Not coincidentally, this nothingness is part of the postmodernist project of "destabilizing meaning" which is in direct opposition to, as a rejection of, the progress of technology and science, which instead seeks to discover empirically what things are and what the truth is.