The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #150251   Message #3512807
Posted By: Lighter
07-May-13 - 08:54 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Rose-Briar Motif
Subject: RE: Origins: Rose-Briar Motif
For every example of that kind, one of the opposite kind could be produced.

You'll believe, says Foucault, what your unconscious wants you to believe - and that unconscious has been created by the elite-controlled society around you. (Apparently his argument didn't apply to what he himself wrote, because he claimed that what he wrote really *was* true. Which, I suppose, would be possible, but only by accident.)

So if you accept Foucault's argument, you have to believe that all you believe is irrational. Foucault says your beliefs either serve your own unacknowledged will to power, or else they're determined (against your will, if you have one) by the controllers of knowledge, Foucaultian or non-Foucaultian.

Or, of course, both.

Argue with that.