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While this is indeed what\'s going on with most of the actual philosophers and texts involved in Postmodernism and Existentialism, the fact of the matter is that there are enough people who do Fail Philosophy Forever in real life and ape/abuse postmodernist theories and argumentations in order to argue that science is just dogma and that the world really is just a creation of the mind.
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While this is indeed what\\\'s going on with most of the actual philosophers and texts involved in Postmodernism and Existentialism, the fact of the matter is that there are enough people who do Fail Philosophy Forever in real life and ape/abuse postmodernist theories and argumentations in order to argue that science is just dogma and that the world really is just a creation of the mind. When people say that postmodernism belongs here, they don\\\'t mean \\\"proper\\\" postmodernism, i.e. postmodernism as applied to human philosophy, values and behavior. They mean the people whose thinking goes \\\"The external world cannot be proved -> science is dogma -> mind creates reality -> homeopathy works, aspirin doesn\\\'t\\\", and who loudly and sometimes angrily stand by these opinions.
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That is to say, because of their experiences with other real human beings, many people treat this sort of \
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That is to say, because of their experiences with other real human beings, many people treat this sort of \\\"pop postmodernism\\\" as more important or relevant than the original, \\\"real\\\" postmodernism, regardless of the fact that it has less to do with the original postmodernism than many would like. See what I did there?
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