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The pomo people telling the anti-pomo they just haven't the understanding is reminiscent of religious apologists/theologians telling atheist debaters they just
by illiilliiililil 6y ago
The pomo people telling the anti-pomo they just haven't the understanding is reminiscent of religious apologists/theologians telling atheist debaters they just haven't ground to stand on because they haven't adequately digested a sufficient body of obscure tomes to dismiss X religion. Or "You just haven't read the Koran in classical Arabic! Understanding Islam is beyond you."
- danharaj 6y agoI'm not even pomo fam I just respect things I don't understand until I give them a fair shake.
- illiilliiililil 6y agoDon't sweat it. Derrida doesn't even understand Derrida.
- tuyjrtkfeldc 6y agoNo man, the texts are available, go read them. It takes time, effort and respect towards the perspectives of others to actually understand how complex things work, such as theories about human mind and social order. Would you encourage someone with no experience in chemistry to start mixing chemicals without understanding potentially dangerous effects? Would you encourage someone who is not an engineer to construct a bridge without adequate preparation and planning? Experts can be authoritative because their experience grants them the ability to know better than non-experts in their respective fields.
- illiilliiililil 6y agoAre you saying I should refrain from atheism until I have read Summa Theologica?
- tuyjrtkfeldc 6y agoNo, I'm saying that you're conflating atheism with being an arrogant moron.
- illiilliiililil 6y agoJohn Searle makes sense when wiriting on the mind. Jacques Derrida, who I have read, does not. The post-modernists are obscurantist charlatans who en masse form an institution that demands attention rather than the quick dismissal like one would give a rambling bum on the street. Similar to religious apologists they have created an enormous enterprise of bullshit. You are confusing its nebulousness for profundity.
- tuyjrtkfeldc 6y ago> The post-modernists are obscurantist charlatans who en masse form an institution that demands attention rather than the quick dismissal like one would give a rambling bum on the street. Yes, like any legitimate discipline of proper research. > You are confusing its nebulousness for profundity. Where you see a nebulous blob, experts see an ordered set of ideas. Similar to when an engineer sees a bridge as a series of forces and structures designed to mitigate them, or as when a chemist understands complex chemical formulas while a layperson may see a somewhat disordered series of letters and numbers. Something isn't wrong just because you don't understand it.
- illiilliiililil 6y agoAre you one of those who thought Sokal made good points in his submitted paper.
- tuyjrtkfeldc 6y agoLol Sokal is a moron who doesn't actually know what postmodernism is. Are you someone who believes that his work is actually legitimate research?
- at_a_remove 6y agoYour dismissal of Scientology is baseless without first having gone clear.