[bruinbirdman]

"Humor me, and find a study that as a statistical matter, the kids of gay parents turn out worse, than kids in general. Sure, maybe kids of stable heterosexuals of their own genetic material turn out best of all (maybe), but that leaves about 65% of kids raised in some other category. I suggest that gay parents that go to a lot of trouble to have kids, and have a stable relationship, do about as well, as most. That is my contention. Not blow me away with hard creditable date. Give me a link. Just do it. "

By promoting the dialectic of 'negative' criticism, that is, pointing out the rational contradictions in a society's belief system, the Frankfurt School 'revolutionaries' dreamed of a utopia where their rules governed [4]. "Their Critical Theory had to contain a strongly imaginative, even utopian strain, which transcends the limits of reality." Its tenets would never be subject to experimental evidence. The pure logic of their thoughts would be incontrovertible. As a precursor to today's 'postmodernism' in the intellectual academic community, [5] "...it recognized that disinterested scientific research was impossible in a society in which men were themselves not yet autonomous...the researcher was always part of the social object he was attempting to study." This, of course, is the concept which led to the current fetish for the rewriting of history, and the vogue for our universities' law, English literature, and humanities disciplines -- deconstruction.

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[Torie]

And there you have it. :) Does the "dialectic of negative criticism" have any nexus with the "nattering nabobs of negativism?" Just asking, just because I can. The best thing in life is to ask a question. Just ask any lawyer.