[ColoCdn]

Thanks. Interesting stuff.

Focus on the Family Institute (a college semester for university students from around the nation) has emphasized this for several years now.

The Church worldwide is like a huge ship. It doesn't turn on a dime, like a cigarette boat. But once it starts going, it's hard to stop.

[WOSG]

Meme Warfare BUMP.

What does 'gnutellafication' mean?

[aliquis]

Never forget the relativism: a denying of truth, objectivity, etc. due to their ideological character.

The human knowledge is a social and ideological product, according to postmodernists. Textualism, constructivism and power to knowledge relation would, probably, serve as key principles of postmodernism.

I could way off the mark here - don't have enough knowledge but I'd say all they achieve is opposing ideology to ideology. The fact that they also assume that the current sum of knowledge as an absolute doesn't help either.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The term "postmodern" was hijacked by cabals of kooky Marxists when they noticed conservative and Christian thinkers using it to signify the collapse the ideologies of progress, the Enlightenment, the goofy secular humanism of modernity, and the shallow liberalism dominating the cultural elite. The End of the Modern World was the title of a book written by a conservative Catholic writer, Romano Guardini, in the 1940s.

What has come to be known as "postmodernism" is just a very bizarre, convaluted style of repackaging epistemological skepticism and moral relativism. The dissembling nihilism of this movement does very little to advance genuine knowledge. The flagrant omission of acknowledging the earlier conservative and Christian uses of the term "postmodern" suggest dishonesty or scholarly illiteracy.

Hence, the distortive use of the term "postmodernism" is worthy of one of our Twilight Zone awards for excessive left-wing kookiness.

[Constantine XIII]

I think these guys wrote an article to show off the new word they came up with. :P

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

[Grampa Dave]

-- the "gnutellafication" of authority and knowledge. On the Internet the music swapping system Gnutella not only cut out the music industry middlemen (a la Napster) but also cut out all "central servers." in other words, in the postmodern culture,the roles and functions of all "experts" and "gate-keepers" are being reduced or re-directed."

Post WWII, the gate keepers of knowledge and protocol of an organization controlled that organization and organizations across America and around the world.

When computers came on the scene, they grabbed control of the process and protocols. The same gate keepers expanded their span of control to over see data processing. So even with the new technology, they still controlled the information flows up and down and the protocols to using it.

In the late 1980's and early 1990's pcs became available to people outside this chain of command and protocol. Salesmen and front line managers in corporations bought their own PCs and went on the internet to communicate and exchange data and knowledge. Pastors, ministers and Priests did the same at the local level. This was replicated across America with the exception of the Not News industries posing as News Industries.

By the end of the 1990's the gate keepers of knowledge and protocol were losing control across our nation.

Jim Robinson and others entered into this derailment of central control of news and protocols of dispensing/controlling news. In the late 1990's and early 2000 years.

During the 2000 election the conservative internet sites led by Free Republic had begun the process of taking the control of news release and shaping of news from the MSM.

Free Republic was one of the front line warriors in preventing the attempted coup of the Floriduh election by the MSM and the Gorons.

Later we defeated the Enviral Whackos who wanted to rurally cleanse thousands of ranchers and farmers in the Klamath Basin to protect a bottom sucking/stinking fish. That was the first major defeat of the enviral nazis in America.

We have seen the ability and power of Free Republic re "gnutellafication" of the MSM reach new levels this year and in the election.

We were instrumental in helping the Swift Vets hitting the road and gaining financial clout to help defeat Kerry. The Swift Vets were the poster guys of "gnutellafication" Komrade Kerry's Kamp, the DNC and the left wing attacks on GW and on the Swift Vets.

Free Republic ripped the guts out of the lies that CBS was pushing after a Freeper identified how CBS committed document fraud. Conservative blog sites jumped on that "gnutellafication" of CBS and helped to make fools of them.

Free Republic helped to destroy the October Surprise from the NY Slimes and CBS.

"gnutellafication" of the MSM is good for America, republicans and for the side of truth. The good freepers are part of that "gnutellafication" process. The brown shirted trolls try to derail us 24/7, as they and their masters know the liberals to succeed must control the release and spin of news to suit their agendas. We are not allowing that to happen.

[fire_eye]

summed up by sheryl crow in her song which proclaims "if it makes you happy, it can't be half bad."

Hey, all right!

Then she isn't upset at the results of the recent elections, considering how many of us are so ecstatically happy at not just the results, but at being able to listen to liberals wail like babies who lost their lollipop?

Downright generous of you, Sheryl...

[cornelis]

outright rejection of enlightenment assumptions

In this the postmodern is on track. Modernism was found to be a sham, because it rated reason to high. What, after all was so enlightening about the Enlightenment? That they held to keys to the golden grail of objectivity. It's too bad that those rejecting that assumption made the pendulum swing to rate reason too low.

You know there is one area where enlightenment assumptions still have a popular foothold: in science. On the other hand, the implications for law is profound.

[The_Reader_David]

I find the article grimly delightful: a postmodern defense of rightwing bloggers!