Simon Reynolds speaks truth:
one of my fiend heros (ex this parish) is said to have said that deconstruction did more damage to him than the drink and the drugs ever did.
My past life peddling MMORPGs to children made me deeply uncomfortable; I’d lump (some) online games in with twitter, religion, Marxist introspection and, yes, deconstruction as serious memetic dangers.
[written with a certain flippancy. Deconstruction has its uses, but too often it forms part of an inward-looking academic world unable to make much connection to the rest of reality. I’m very fond of those rare theorists who
can
harness deconstruction to achieve real-world ends]