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> 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
by 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?
- illiilliiililil 6y agoI mean, did the post-modernists who read his paper know what post-modernism was?
- danharaj 6y agoWhy did Nature publish a proof that is widely considered to be fatally flawed, i.e. not a proof? https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11709 https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=11709 How did the Bogdanoff affair happen? The fact that bullshit is hard to separate from "the truth" is a very good starting point for postmodern investigation.