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From: | Pierce T . Wetter III |
Subject: | Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] the poetry of donald rumsfeld |
Date: | Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:31:51 -0700 |
However the post-modernist credo that "everything is true to some extent" is not a useful strategy for conducting your life.Not disagreeing with your skepticism over the "Ghost Rider's" hypothesis but.... That is _not_ the post-modernist credo. It's closer to the crap spouted by ideologues who like to flame post-modernism without bothering to understand any.
Well, pomo is a broad term. Here's a link: http://www.colorado.edu/English/ENGL2012Klages/pomo.htmlHowever, a lot of postmodernism grew out of the cynicism in Europe after WWII which let to a bit a moral relativism. Pomo gets blamed for that unfairly perhaps, but most "postmodern" works tend to be rather cynical.
The fact is though, that while there are shades of gray, there are also blacks and whites. Neither the modernist or postmodernist version of reality is truth.
Pierce
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