From: The Pantophobic (trivik@stwing.upenn.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 19:50:09 BST
hehehehe......this mail is a classic
love it!
Quoting Platt Holden <pholden@sc.rr.com>:
> Hi Paco:
>
> > I could go on and on, but to be honest, I am absolutely
> > lost in all of the pretzel logic that those of you
> > subscribing to BUSH IS AN STUPID EVIL ASS MONKEY are
> > using to arrive at your various positions.
>
> Ah Paco, we must learn to rise above crass logocentrism. Surely you
> must realize that logic is a hopelessly outmoded "vocabulary" in the
> postmodern world and that canons of rationality no longer apply. Rules
> of reason, you see, were the means by which dead white Victorian
> males rose to power, rules that are still employed by the privileged white
> males from upper-class backgrounds living in wealthy countries whose
> only real agenda is to maintain power.Their use of reasoned persuasion
> to serve their power goals must be unmasked. To get with today's
> program, we must go for interpretations instead of facts, perspectives
> rather than objective details, understanding rather than reason or
> analysis, diversity rather than universal principles, differences rather
> than right or wrong, good or evil. We must emphasize contexts and
> contingencies and representations and stories. We must keep in mind
> that any proposition we put forth is arbitrary, a result of social biases
> stemming from race, ethnicity, sex, class and God only knows what
> other accidents of historical development, also known has "historicism."
>
> Yes, Paco. In this brave new postmodern world, there are no standards
> rooted in reason. There are only preferences and appetites arising from
> a solidarity of interests. So we should not be surprised at convoluted
> thinking. It's par for the course in the halls of ivy today.
>
> As Shakespeare wrote, "Take my advice, Mercurtio. Do not beat thy
> head against a brick wall."
>
> Platt
>
>
>
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