Submitted by TheStateOfException t3_zj2go4 in philosophy
GSilky t1_izuhihf wrote
Critical theory isn't bad, it's useful to a point. However, when one can only find problems, meaning is going to be lacking. The ultimate flaw of the program, IMO, is that change cannot happen without understanding; understanding tends to remove the urge for change. This is why I find the critical theory aggravating, if you don't understand it, how can you know what needs to change? Most of my dislike of critical theory stems from it being too easy and mostly rather boring in the end (perspective wise I prefer interaction theory), it's exciting when young and inexperienced, but personal experience should reveal how ultimately there is no answer or solution to anything offered by critical theory, just constant flux and power dynamics and questions without resolutions. This is a very unsatisfying view of the world that lived experience puts the lie to.
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