Explain Critical Theory and Reflexivity

Critical Theory = The field of study concerned with formulating and evaluating intellectual approaches to the analysis or interpretation of works of art, texts, and other cultural artifacts. Critical theory encompasses such theories as New Criticism, Marxism, structuralism, deconstruction, and postcolonial theory.
Tl;dr some Jewish concoction to """deconstruct""" aka strawman and belittle everything that isn't anti-western.

>>134600875
How does such reasoning actually work? What is the methodology, and hypothetical situations in which one would use critical theory?

>>134600513
/pol/ will just say "something something Jews, something something Socialism"

Critical theory is about subjecting existing social institutions to criticism, especially within historical context. The best way to quickly explain would be to show you the type of question different schools of philosophy would ask:

Greek (in general): What are pants?
Scholasticism: Why is it good to wear pants?
Humanism: Is it good to wear pants?
Realism: What percent of people wear pants?
Postmodernism: Why do we wear pants?
Critical Theory: Why does our culture say "only men wear pants" and why is this changing?

>>134601412
Detailed explanation, thank you. I wonder if it could be used by conservatives to turn the tables against conventions it has largely been utilized?

>>134602043
In some ways, but usually not. Conservatism is often about trying to preserve social institutions, under the assumption they are good. Subjecting them to criticism is almost always only harmful to the ideology.

Here's the least contraversal example I can think of right now"

Conservatives generally want to keep recreational drugs illegal.
Critical theory would ask "Why are recreational drugs illegal" but is not very interested in (and this is important) "why SHOULD recreational drugs remain illegal"
Critical theory would be less interested in examining the truth or falseness of various claims about cannabis, but would use that as evidence for examining the social context.

For instance, someone utilizing critical theory would point out that making cannabis illegal had very little to do with "stopping violent crime" as newspapers argued in the 1930s (since weed is in no way linked to violent behavior), but instead had a great deal with using cannabis possession as an excuse to incarcerate "undesirables" especially black people who hadn't broken any other laws.

Now, you can see how trying to examine that context is actually more harmful than helpful to the conservative argument, thus conservatives attempt to stick to the "weed is a gateway drug" or "think of the children" consequential-type philosophical arguments.

All of that being said, there are some places where conservatives could apply critical theory, and those would involve analyzing existing social institutions that they disapprove of. For instance, "why do we give so much authority to non-government organizations like the American Medical Association when it comes to deciding health policy" or, especially for alt-right conservatives "Why do we offer such high salaries to former Washington insiders who become lobbyists?"

>>134601004
The methodology is just interpretation of texts and what do you do with it? Produce critical interpretation of texts, including history itself as a text. Ask, what was Marx's methodology or the other Marxists? They called it science but they didn't use the scientific method. Critical theory is kind of like that. Also like freudianism (same fake science thing), critical theory is like psychoanalysis of history. Just look up a university's critical theory department and read a few papers.

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>>134603594
>alt-right
welcome to /pol/. that's a propaganda term.

>>134600513
reflexivity is a method of evalauating events. In the context of markets it competes with failed theories like EMH and I personally believe in it. In finance reflexivity is the relationship between market prices and fundamentals. The idea is that market prices can influence the underlying fundamentals or at least the perception of these fundamentals in a self-enforcing trend. Soros is truly a financial genius

>>134600513
Reflexivity is George Soros' take on market theory.

Traditional market theory states that the market operates on a principle of supply and demand, or a reaction to real economic factors. Reflexivity contends that materialist basis in market factors is rarely if ever the true basis for market demands, that the market's /perception/ of economic trends and currents is the main source of market momentum. Being able to perceive the difference between actual reality and the memes presently driving the herd allows one to stay ahead of the curve when the financial sector inevitably, reflexively, corrects itself to market reality.

Unstated, but inferred by Soros is harnessing the power of memes to create a designed disjunction between mass perception and reality and then /really/ get ahead of the curve.

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>>134605126
>Shows a graph clearly proving the term existed before the media picked it up
>Claims this proves the media invented it

Okay.

I mean, I could go digging through old 4chan archives and daily stomer articles to prove you wrong, but we both know you're just doing it for attention, so I'll just leave you with this.

>>134605559
great explanation but Soros believes that reflexivity is applicable in social and political contexts too, not just markets

>>134605633
fuck off nigger. that term didn't apply here until after your girl used it.
you have no moral authority: you are a racist piece of sub-human garbage who thinks ii's okay to kill shitskins and steal their stuff. You lost before you opened your ignorant fucking mouth.
>article you link notes it's made up to apply to trump supporters
seriously, you're too fucking stupid to be posting here, nigger.

>>134606308
Okay, here's an article proving the term was in common use almost two years before Clinton brought it up.

https://www.dailystormer.com/alt-wrong-andy-nowicki-on-the-jews/

>>134606308
kek chimpout in progress

>>134605559
>>134605897

>ironically, George Soros is the first meme magician

>>134606308
>fuck off nigger. that term didn't apply here until after your girl used it.

You're such a moron, yes it did. Except it mostly referred to "neoreactionaries". Somehow it got mis-applied to any conservative who was not a cuckold but also not a /pol/ack.

>>134606528
based on his theories I think he might be importing muslims and other shitskins to cause a reflexive process that leads to an overwhelming surge of right-wing politics

>>134606831

Is he /OurJew/ ?

>>134606981
I'm not willing to make a bet either way but I think there is at least a chance he's doing this to cause a backlash because I cannot imagine he thinks third world people could exist in his "open society"

>>134605897
>Soros believes that reflexivity is applicable in social and political contexts too, not just markets

This type of thinking is autism at its finest, and the reason why Soros is rich.

Please.......more stories about Soros and his reflexivity. This shit is fascinating and makes so much sense to me.

>>134606831
You're getting warmer, but no its not that. The reflexivity gap being created is the acknowledgement that you can't have both a welfare state and open-borders.

Soros has correctly realized that social marxist thinking has been systemically institutionalized into the thought process of society. As a result, he knows that there won't be political will to "turn off the welfare taps", instead the end will be "currency collapse" so he has bet thusly.

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>>134600513
reflexivity is just a re-brand of Newton's Third Law: every action has an equal and opposite reaction, cause and effect. pic related is heikin-ashe chart.

Soros is old and outdated... and using models that kid investors use.

>>134606981
>>134606831
Why are you so new to the research? Yes this is exactly what they are doing but it´s not for the right to win. It´s so we fight back and thus Islam and the West mutually weaken eachother. To the point where the commie-globalists can waltz in and finish the job. Then comes Kalergi and RFID chips.
Are you memeing or do you not know this? They will help us rise, but not before they´ve finished importing enough opposition.

>>134607967
Hell seger!

>>134600513
>>134600875
Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_y0LxcANic

>>134607828
>The reflexivity gap being created is the acknowledgement that you can't have both a welfare state and open-borders.

Fascinating insight. I am personally betting on a currency collapse too, for the reasons you described and others, but I think you are correct about his motives. A currency collapse would create a more coherent environment and one more suitable to his vision of an open society, though I am skeptical he will ultimately succeed. Depending how the currency collapse plays out I suppose it could lead to greater support for communism but I think there is also a chance it leads to right-wing small govt sentiment in most people

>>134606831
If only.

Soros makes his philosophical outlook as readily available as his theories on the market: he takes political action that he feels is necessary to preserve the paradigms that have served him so very, very well in life. Like how a hunter respects and maintains his hunting grounds for following generations, but the autistic jew version.

Soros does what he does because the world of globalized finance capital requires constant economic "growth". Growth is defined by revenue, and as how Soros and other bankers perceive money - the generation of debt. The oncoming crisis is that Europe has a shrinking population due to previous economically-driven schemes like dual-income households and state-sponsored old age security. Less people means less debt, and the entire premise behind fiscal capitalism collapses. Based purely on ideological principle, that is what Soros is striving to avoid by flooding Europe with refugees and muslims. Things like nation and family do not factor into his imaginary money-god, that he believes with true zeal to match any other zealot.

>>134608980
Years ago I got to meet jim rogers (former partner of soros). I delicately asked rogers how was it that he was so libertarian while soros was so socialist....how did that partnership work? His basic response was that "george isnt really so socialist...hes not so different...I just really disagree with his methods as I think many many people will be hurt".

I've taken what he said, and how his physical manners were when he said it, to mean that george is playing a game. Remember that soros's biggest claim was "he was the man who broke the bank of england". This is just Ver 2.0 of his same game. Leopards dont change their spots.