There is nothing particularly "far-left" about both postmodernism and critical theory.
In this time and place when every possible point of view on every religious, philosophical, cultural and political issue is freely available on the internet everyone necessarily has to critically examine their presumptions about quite literally everything (especially on religion).
Two of my favorite authors who do, and promote this are Jeffrey Kripal from Rice University, and the little known very prolific writer Richard Grossinger who is the founder of North Atlantic Books, and now closely associated with the Inner Traditions/Bear@ Co publishers.
Another now deceased author was William Irwin Thompson the author of the more-than-wonderful book Coming Into Being.
That having been said in my opinion the principal driving force of our now collective madness (even psychosis) are on the right-side of the culture wars shouting match (and of course the dis-information machine)
Check out the books by David Brock beginning with The Republican Noise Machine Right Wing Media & How It Corrupts Democracy. That Noise Machine is of course now muchly bigger.
One of my favorite writers (now deceased) pointed out in a 2010 book that at the time there were more than 1000 right-wing-hate-radio stations in the US
Some early very popular and influential right wing psychos were Glenn Beck and Russ Limbaugh.
There is nothing particularly "far-left" about both postmodernism and critical theory.
In this time and place when every possible point of view on every religious, philosophical, cultural and political issue is freely available on the internet everyone necessarily has to critically examine their presumptions about quite literally everything (especially on religion).
Two of my favorite authors who do, and promote this are Jeffrey Kripal from Rice University, and the little known very prolific writer Richard Grossinger who is the founder of North Atlantic Books, and now closely associated with the Inner Traditions/Bear@ Co publishers.
Another now deceased author was William Irwin Thompson the author of the more-than-wonderful book Coming Into Being.
That having been said in my opinion the principal driving force of our now collective madness (even psychosis) are on the right-side of the culture wars shouting match (and of course the dis-information machine)
An early critic of the culture wars shouting match was/is Deborah Tannen in her book The Argument Culture. http://www.deborahtannen.com/the-argument-culture
Check out the books by David Brock beginning with The Republican Noise Machine Right Wing Media & How It Corrupts Democracy. That Noise Machine is of course now muchly bigger.
One of my favorite writers (now deceased) pointed out in a 2010 book that at the time there were more than 1000 right-wing-hate-radio stations in the US
Some early very popular and influential right wing psychos were Glenn Beck and Russ Limbaugh.
I do agree with you about the culture warrior right being a major problem.