"So it was Loughner's college professor's who did it.....not Palin? I must say....that was an amazing piece of deduction Holmes".
"Elementary my dear Watson".
Posted on 01/24/2011 3:18:20 AM PST by Scanian
The talking heads continue to yap about the source of the savagery driving Jared Lee Loughner. Many on the left have tried, and failed, to pin the blame for the Tucson massacre on the Tea Parties or, just as ridiculous, on Sarah Palin. Meanwhile, the 900-pound gorilla in the interrogation room remains unquestioned and unchallenged. Its name is "deconstructionism."
Deconstructionism is historical relativism on crack cocaine. The "theory" is being freely and openly distributed to almost every college student in America. Courses in most of the humanities typically include the works of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. In fact, it is nearly impossible to find a recent textbook on literary, cultural, or artistic criticism that does not contain phrases like, "As Derrida has proven...." or, "As Foucault has shown...."[i] That Derrida and/or Foucault have "proven" their silly theories is taken for granted in modern academia.
What exactly is deconstructionism? I will try to make this philosophical drivel as simple and understandable as possible. The two most influential proponents of deconstructionism were the French philosophers Derrida (1930-2004) and Foucault (1926-1984). Derrida focused on the philosophy of writing and grammar and Foucault emphasized cultural issues.[ii] I will center this article on the work of Jacques Derrida.[iii]
Derrida dared his readers to "invent in your own language if you can or want to hear mine; invent if you can or want to give my language to be understood." He states, "...this distance, divergence, delay, this deferral must be capable of a certain absoluteness of absence if the structure of writing, assuming writing exists, is to constitute itself."[iv]
Such avenues of "thought" (if this bilge can be called thinking -- imagine the gall it takes to write: "assuming writing exits") have a dark side. According to Derrida writing is a sign that signifies...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I’d need a ladder to read that
Brain dead, none thinker, let’s rehash the same old BS again.
We always knew that humanities degrees were useless. Now we learn that they may in fact be dangerous.
Drug-addled philosophies.
Derrida dared his readers to "invent in your own language if you can or want to hear mine; invent if you can or want to give my language to be understood."
Derrida: your concepts and mode of thought are a gigantic sweaty pile of POMO arse-wang.
I invented that. I want to give my language to be understood.
I am not an unintelligent person. While allowing for the possible injury done to the original sense of the quoted excerpts in the process of translation, Derrida’s comments strike me as confused, contradictory, speculative nad unsupported.
A less kind assessment would deem it a tour de force in intellectual sophistry.
It marked the limits of all power, of all violence, and the origin of the ethical. No, seriesly, it did. Plus if you zot my posts, you just exert a power over that which escapes power. So there! /Derrida
Derrida would have got eaten alive on this site.
Derrida essentially instructed his readers to cut themselves off from friends, family and the common meaning of words - and to become violently destructive.
It's a manual on becoming crazy. It's devil-worship, where you go looking for the violent tempter within yourself.
The article is spot-on. Jared is one of Derrida's spiritual children.
A mí sin pinga me tiene.
My “language contribution.”
“Derrida’s comments strike me as confused, contradictory, speculative nad unsupported.”
The kind of sophist drivel that sometimes results in grants and scholarships on this side of the pond.
If that means “this ping does not believe that it exists” then bravo! A succinct summary of Derridesque ‘thought’
Though maybe “this ping does not exist except to shoot its father in the face” would be equally apt.
No, it’s just a succint summation of Cuban disgust that I would probably be better off not translating.
The article is spot-on. Jared is one of Derrida's spiritual children.
The idea that it is not necessary to impute evil motives to those with whom you disagree is a virtue, and a conservative principle. But if facts and logic genuinely point toward that conclusion it would be a bias to absolutely refuse to entertain the hypothesis.It is not necessary for conservatives to prove that socialist thought lead to the murders - but if that is indeed the case, proving it would be sufficient to exonerate conservative thought of implication in the murders.
Everyone needs to understand the whole point of leftist ideology is for its adherents to feel superior about themselves.
You can’t feel superior by saying “Hey, the Bible/Constitution/founders were right. I have nothing more to add.”
And of course, those who judge who gets the dough from the government are invariably the types of deconstructionists that the left produces.
If you think this is turgid, try reading Jurgen Habermas. It is boilerplate so dense light can’t escape. And in the end, it reads as little more than word salad, an explosion in a dictionary. No ideas are communicated, no thoughts explored, just a gush of inflated epigrams and solipsistic droppings.
And the sheeple swoon when this same bilge is read off a teleprompter.
"So it was Loughner's college professor's who did it.....not Palin? I must say....that was an amazing piece of deduction Holmes".
"Elementary my dear Watson".
"So it was Loughner's college professor who did it.....not Palin? .... I must say....that was an amazing piece of deduction Holmes".
"Elementary my dear Watson".
The target audience for this claptrap is intellectual poseurs and latter-day salonistes who pretend to find nuggets of deep thought buried in the rubbish. It is devoid of any practical value, mere mental masturbation.
It is to philosophy what “found art” is to sculpture: trash assigned meaning by people afraid to call it trash.
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