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Meg
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Well into days society and politically speaking here in the U.S., it is referred to people dismantling our constitutional rights along with adding unconstitutional laws.
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In the civil war song, the good old rebel didn't want to be reconstructed! "Deconstruction is a term in contemporary philosophy, literary criticism, and the social sciences, denoting a process by which the texts and languages of Western philosophy (in particular) appear to shift and complicate in meaning when read in light of the assumptions and absences they reveal within themselves." ~ Wikipedia
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Example of Deconstructing a text: The nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" - when deconstructed along feminist lines - reveals embedded sexist and patriarchal attitudes, in that it just assumes that Jack should be mentioned before Jill, and that Jill is just a tag-along character who follows Jack (in mention and in action), as she just goes "tumbling after". Far from a simple silly little children's rhyme it is really a morality play that indoctrinates children into the idea that boys should lead and women should both follow them and clean up their messes. (According to extreme deconstructionists) Whether you believe this to be utter nonsense or a penetrating observation, is also conditioned by your own ingrained biases, unexamined assumptions, life experiences and fundamental worldview.
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Example of Deconstructing a text: The nursery rhyme "Jack and Jill" - when deconstructed along feminist lines - reveals embedded sexist and patriarchal attitudes, in that it just assumes that Jack should be mentioned before Jill, and that Jill is just a tag-along character who follows Jack (in mention and in action), as she just goes "tumbling after". Far from a simple silly little children's rhyme it is really a morality play that indoctrinates children into the idea that boys should lead and women should both follow them and clean up their messes. (According to extreme deconstructionists) Whether you believe this to be utter nonsense or a penetrating observation, is also conditioned by your own ingrained biases, unexamined assumptions, life experiences and fundamental worldview. . . In other words, there's no arguing with them as they'll just deconstruct your argument in whatever way suits them.
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If I'm not mistaken, it's the absurd proposition that any interpretation of any work of art is as good as any other. The critic presumes to know more about the art than the artist. [ya' know. I gotta disavow any acuracy to this and maybe be forced to respond: I don't know. Then look at the other answers.] - ;-)
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Deconstruction, n. The result of taking a written work and dividing by zero.* ________________________________ *Another false Factotum factoid.
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