Group Maximum: Final Project Proposal - Slightly Re-interpreted by Kris

The impetus for this project is the realization that some people in intellectual circles, quite frankly, are full of shit. It would be easy to dismiss their rhetoric as simply not worthy of my time, but a more sophisticated analysis reveals that many of these individuals are not wittingly "full of shit," but are products of a culture that fosters what appears to me as an elitist and to some extent pointless rhetoric of word play (over indulged linguistics). While perhaps not the most inundated with this rhetoric, postmodernism does seem to have had the greatest effect on mainstream culture, and this, I believe, is a shame, for the implications of postmodern thought are often misunderstood mostly at the fault of theoreticians. I am not a detractor of postmodern theory in the sense that I don’t agree with its (standard) tenets, but rather I find its tenets hardly “post” modern. Instead a repetition of what has already been said in the past.