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To: Wilhelm Tell
"The post-modernists champion ancient errors while pretending to be avant-garde."

Well WT, I agree with your statement to a point. Certianly the aura of avant-garde is very important to the post-modernists, and is most like their greatest motivating force.

However, it's not "ancient errors" that they are championing; the most foolish ancient had ten times the common sense of the most enlightened post-modern. The errors that being celebrated are quite modern, co-inciding with Einstien's theory of relativity, which is their gospel.

What is so interesting about Ayn Rand and her philosophy, is that she comes across as an the anti-philosopher--at least as far as post-modernists are concerned. I think she would find good company amongst most of the ancients, with the possible exception of Plato, who she hated.

12 posted on 02/15/2005 12:42:06 PM PST by Ronzo (God Bless & Protect all of our troops, wherever they serve.)
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To: Ronzo

Most "ancient" were locked into a mix of fear, brutality, envy avoidance (the most vicious kind of envy), and the superstitious traditions that grew out of their fear, brutality and envy. Post-modernists are the "ancients" of modern times.


13 posted on 02/17/2005 3:14:32 AM PST by jackbob
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