# Do most students really start their undergraduate experience completely
ignorant of the vast…

(Related: I have no idea how so many otherwise intelligent and well-educated
people manage to maintain the belief that poststructuralism…

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Do most students really start their undergraduate experience completely
ignorant of the vast variety of models in critical theory? I certainly didn’t,
and neither did my peers (in a STEM curriculum, no less).

(Related: I have no idea how so many otherwise intelligent and well-educated
people manage to maintain the belief that poststructuralism posits a fully
mutable truth. The poststructuralist attitude — that socially constructed and
socially enforced ideas are subject to power relations — is very different,
and while there’s a lot of discussion about what ideas are accidents of
culture rather than material or metaphysical truths, it’s enormously
misleading to suggest that poststructuralists in general consider _all_ truths
to be socially constructed. This kind of straw-poststructuralism gets held up
a lot by people who must have at least read some of the literature, and I
don’t know how.)

By [John Ohno](https://medium.com/@enkiv2) on [September 8,
2017](https://medium.com/p/8470537a83a4).

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