You were mostly okay up until you made it blatantly political. It was both a superficial dismissal of a complex set of political ideas at the same time that it conflates "political left" with "post modernist".
Foucault was an actual communist. Sartre was (for a time) an actual communist. Deleuze and Guattari were both far left and actual communists. Lyotard was a hard leftist. Baudrillard was a hard leftist and for a time an actual communist. Derrida is far left. Rorty is a leftist. Camus (not really pomo) was for a time, an actual communist. Explain to me why it's a mischaracterization to claim that the french post-modernists are generally leftists.
I'm not critiquing the "political left" I'm identifying that the goals of the post-modernist left are very similar to what Nietzsche is critiquing.
Also, I'm not "superficially' dismissing post-modernism. The OP article does a good job of that already with its satirical abstract. I'm making a connection. I personally would strongly prefer the life of "The Last Man" over the Übermensch
To reply to the post under this, because the brigades have me temporarily muzzled:
I think you're projecting what you want me to say on top of what I'm actually saying.
The overwhelming majority of self-styled post-modernist philosophers also just happen to be leftists. As such, they follow an intellectual tradition which usually moves towards fighting hierarchies. I do not know how you construed this to be me claiming that "all leftists are post-modernists" or anything of that sort. I didn't say that and it's not true. Many leftists are the opposite of post-modernist.
At no point do I bring up a single liberal author. I specifically cite french post-modernists and a few other french authors who flirted with leftism and are adjacent to the post-modernist movement. I gave a highly incomplete list of the overlap between leftists and postmodernists. I cannot even fathom how you grew to think that I am conflating liberals and post-modernists.
Oh, and finally, the people who keep flagging posts about Post-Modernism are intellectually lazy and proving that the average HN flagger can't be trusted to talk about an even slightly controversial topic. The flaggers should be embarrassed.
You are equating post modernists with all of a segment of leftist politics. Perhaps this is unintentionally, but that is the implication I get from your comments. This gives me the impression that you are conflating post-modern philosophy with liberal political philosophy. They are distinct branches of thought.
So, once again, I am simply saying that everyone on the left is not an post-modernist.
You appear to dislike post-modernism. I'm not a huge fan of it either. However, your disdain for that field of thinking seems to have focused your efforts on your area of dislike, on the excesses of those with whom you disagree. It may be a focus that blinds you to the wider field of modern epistemic thought, political philosophy, and nuance within the political spectrum that defies easy liberal-conservative dichotomies.
You cannot read the source works and/or criticisms of post-modernism, the source works and/or criticisms of libertarian/utilitation/objectivism and come away with an accurate picture of modern epistemic or political philosophy.
And bringing up Nietzsche is extremely relevant since the abstract of the OP specifically cites his reasoning as the source of post-modernism. I'm claiming that had he lived long enough to see what post-modernism was, he would have tried to disavow his work from it. Apparently that's "tedious ideological boilerplate" to you.
At what point am I claiming something which is untrue? If making a connection between the left and french post-modernism is something that you label as "tedious ideological boilerplate" than you're simply mistaken.
At worst, my final addendum about HN flaggers may not be within your guidelines. Outside of that, this post is high quality and something that HN users should aspire to. Compare the work I did to nearly all the other posts in this thread. They are on average far more quippy, far less substantiated, and more ideological than my own.
Your complaint about this post implies that this platform is bankrupt and defunct for talking about anything except a subset of computer related topics.