Deconstructing Deconstructionism

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 28 November 2001 | By Robert Locke

[logos]

Although I must ask have we ever crossed steel over immigration?

In these later years I have made the conscious effort to keep my steel encased in velvet far more often than not, and I don't remember ever discussing the immigration problem with anyone on this forum, so ... to the best of my recollection, no. In point of fact, I had the thought when reading your comments, "Ahh ... a new voice!"

[RLK]

it supposes that there is at the end of the day no actual reality

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This is a premise that becomes progressively easier to embrace as someone becomes more privileged beyond responsiblity for the effort of creating necessary food and shelter.

[cornelis]

This is a premise that becomes progressively easier to embrace as someone becomes more privileged beyond responsiblity for the effort of creating necessary food and shelter.

On this point Levinas has attempted a return to sanity after the rationalist fall-out. It will, I guarantee, be easily mistaken as a socialist piety.

[logos]

I would like to tell these people: Please, please: Just get a life.

Ah, bb. Would they but listen to you!

Of course, they won't. They can't afford to, you know. They have made their choices, made their beds and now they lie supporating in pools of cold sweat (that may just be the absolute worst metaphor I ever thought up, but I'll leave it, if only because it's so bad!). Real life, as you put it, would kill most of them off, post haste.

[cornelis]

I suppose you are correct dialectically speaking.

No, what I mean is that Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, et.al. are anti-rationalist, especially in the creation of their own specialist language.

[logos]

Crossed the sands, then?

[cornelis]

Insofar as its geneology can be traced to Hegel. But if you read my post above, you'll note that it is I who question the assertion that "communism is the ultimate philosophy of rationalism." But I do think this is steering a paltry ship into different seas.

[RLK]

Deconstructionism is essential to the Left because the proposition that there is no real world is the only remaining way to save the manifold absurdities of liberalism.

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This is the key that I have found iver the years. When I hear this stuff I ask myself, What is this person trying to hide or avoid?"

[IronJack]

I think you're seeing a cyclicality that may or may not exist. While history does tend to be cyclical, it is in fact more EPIcyclic than purely repetitive (per Hegel). So whatever form of Deism is born from the "death throes" of Deconstructionism, it isn't likely to be "that Ole Tyme Religion." That is, if we accept in the first place that history isn't linear. Deconstructionism could just as easily be seen as the next step in the dissolution, the spiritual waning, the ultimate victory of entropy over energy, chaos over order, darkness over light.

I'm too much an optimist to accept that dismal outlook, but I may also be in denial.

Thank you all for a discussion that hearkens back to the days before Free Republic became a backwater of booby threads and a hangout for oversexed teenage boys with a hardon and a Commodore 64.

[logos]

Thank you all for a discussion that hearkens back to the days before Free Republic...

Hey, we have these discussions all the time; you've just been going to all the wrong threads! If you're really interested - and have more time than good sense - a lot of them are bookmarked on my home page.

[Exigence]

I would point out that one of the guiding principles of psychological warfare is that if you wish to change the behavior of a people, you first change their language.

Exactly. Which is why you have libs saying "herstory" instead of history, for example. It's the guiding principle of political correctness.

[DrNo]

Thanks for finding (and correcting) the quote!!!

[betty boop]

Real life, as you put it, would kill most of them off, post haste.

As in: If they had to get a real job, their *ss would be gr*ss? Hahahahahaha! But ain't it the truth, dear logos!

Maybe more later. But now, it's beddy-bye time. Good night, and God bless -- bb.