What disregarding reality makes possible: a cautionary tale.

[2ndAmForComputers]

[longship]

1. I've got to DURec any thread that takes down postmodernism

Which is one of the most inane and idiotic modes of so-called thinking that has ever existed. It's all a conversation. utter rubbish!

And they teach this crap at universities all over the country. One of my best friend's daughter is about to graduate from Columbia University in anthropology and she's fallen deeply into the postmodernist Wonderland rabbit hole.

One conversation we had she told me she believes in magic. Fine, I told her, after graduating from Columbia this summer, at great expense from your parents, maybe you can enroll in graduate school at Hogwarts.

The postmodernists are almost as bad as the Ayn Rander's. You can't have a rational discussion with them because to them there is no such thing as rationality.

Bunch of poo, if you ask me.

[Confusious]

2. Aah, yes those people

I wholeheartedly agree. After reading about the science wars, I decided I couldn't stand them.

They annoy me as much the snake oil salesmen, the faith healers, the alternative medicine crowd and Republicans.

Postmodernist generator:

http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

I believe one of leaders of the snake oil philosophy recanted the entire thing in the past few years, since it gave license to the global warming deniers and the ignorant to say "My ideas are equal."

No they're not, they're idiots and full of shit.

[Egalitarian Thug]

3. Opinions are indeed like assholes in that everybody's got one,

but somehow we forgot that they are not all equal.

K&R

[bigmonkey]

4. Ken Wilber has a good analysis.

If what the post-modern "logic" claims is true, then their claim to truth is false.
If their "logic" is false, then their claim to truth is false.
Therefore, it's false.

[2ndAmForComputers]

5. Excellent.