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“Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one …” — Alexandra Petri
Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible.
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