MD Some cultures are better than others

From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 22:08:44 GMT

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    Hi All:

    Contrary to the postmodern idea that no culture is better than another,
    Pirsig says in Chp. 24 of Lila, "Cultures can be graded and judged morally
    according to the contribution to the evolution of life."

    The validity of Pirsig's statement is backed by an article that Steve
    Peterson kindly shared with me. It is:

    CULTURAL DIVERSITY: A WORLD VIEW
    by Thomas Sowell

    and it can be found at

    http://www.tsowell.com/spcultur.html

    Postmodernism and it's handmaiden, political correctness, is slowly but
    surely losing academic respectability in the humanities departments on
    college campuses.

    On the scale of human accomplishment in philosophy over the centuries,
    postmodernism is hardly measurable, if indeed it registers at all.

    Platt

      
     

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