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Look, I'm not willing to go as far as the postmodernists and say that the author is dead because that would make me very nervous.
They're the postmodernists pushing progressive activism at a college near you.
To understand and oppose the postmodernists, the ideas by which they orient themselves must be clearly identified.
And so the postmodernists sort of stubbed their toe on that and thought, well, if there's this vast number of interpretations of any particular literary work, how can you be sure that any interpretation is more valid than any other interpretation?
So when the postmodernists extended that critique to the world, they said, look, well, a text is complicated enough.