Posted on 05/30/2008 11:32:47 AM PDT by William Tell 2
I prefer to call them what they really are, "Government Churches".
Richard Rorty was a Prof. of Philosophy at Princeton, U of VA, and then Stanford. He died in 2007. Our taxpayer-funded universities have many of these types of people. Most are not so blatant about it. They just think that they are good enlightened people who need to enlighten their students. They really think that they are doing good by overthrowing the students’ religious beliefs.
Recommended reading:
That Every Man Be Armed:
The Evolution of a Constitutional Right
by Stephen P. Halbrook
None taken, I’m not a boomer.
Go the Bulletin website www.thebulletin.us. Go to the left column find Columnists and Commentary and then go to Michael P. Tremogie Talks ( this was not a name I made up you have to believe me about that one).
The series starts with the title Appeasement Nation
Thanks for the kind words:
Go to the www.thebulletin.us Click on ‘Columnists and Commentary’ in the lefthand column. Scroll to Michael P. Tremoglie Talks and click. The series begins with the piece titled “Appeasement Nation.”
Thanks.
Here are the links to the first three:
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=19721853&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=19725643&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8
http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=19729480&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8
I believe that your post must be the post of the month, if not the day. It is very astute and well said. If you don't object, I will put it on my profile page (with credit to you). It bears repeating. Your three paragraphs bear more wisdom and profundity than anything I've read on here in some time. Thank you.
No problem. Be my guest!
While this sort of thing happens in political fields like "global warming", it also happens in things like the fine arts. What sophisticate would want to admit that all he sees in a Jackson Pollock painting is a bunch of splatters of paint whose varied density offers some degree of visual interest, but no real artistic vision?
One of the key aspects of Liberal Mind Fog is that its sufferers believe it desirable to see things that not everyone else can see; the clarity and brilliance of the vision is far more important than its relation to reality.
Very true. Very true and very well articulated.
It is a theme of my novel “A Sense of Duty,” derived from my experiences as a cop in Philadelphia.
The police ( and working class males) are considered the benighted, while the elites and the literary class are the annointed.
All 4 are outstanding. Informative and educational. Thank you, sir. BTTT!
Leftism is the triumph of "feelings" over reason.I'm tired of this meme. Leftists are *not* irrational. Their premises and logic are actually based on the absence of emotion, leftists believe in human reason and nothing else. That's why you get planned economies and other disasters.
Reasoning takes effort.
Most people are lazy.
Ergo
Leftist "thought" (actually the absense of thought as emotions require no effort) predominates.
Thanks, as always, for the kind words.
Let the Bulletin publisher, Tom Rice, know that articles that are of a conservative/pro-American nature are read and appreciated. He has a tough job. He is trying to start a conservative newspaper in a liberal, big northeastern city, The People’s Democratic Republic of Philadelphia, where even the Republicans are liberal by most standards.
It would help if he knows people like and read these types of articles.
Email him at publisher@thebulletin.us
Excellent column!! The amount of smug mutual congratulation and pompous self-importance among “progressive” leftists ensures that they will never be able to consider criticism seriously. In cases like the Bellesiles fraud, the left just “moves on” as soon as they have to give up the ghost of defending one of their pals.
Is anyone familiar with the infamous “Social Text” affair? That episode in 1996 revealed the utter intellectual fraud at the heart of some of the most “progressive” precincts of the contemporary academy — but of course virtually all of the fraud artists who perpetrate that sort of thing have been allowed to simply “move on” — no one gets fired for being a wildly incompetent leftist academic. Well maybe Ward Churchill, but that was the rare exception to the rule.
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
The Sokal affair (also Sokal’s hoax) was a hoax by physicist Alan Sokal perpetrated on the editorial staff and readership of the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text (published by Duke University). In 1996, Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University, submitted a paper of nonsense camouflaged in jargon for publication in Social Text, as an experiment to see if a journal in that field would, in Sokal’s words: “publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors’ ideological preconceptions.”[1]
The paper, titled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”[2], was published in the Spring/Summer 1996 “Science Wars” issue of Social Text, which at that time had no peer review process, and so did not submit it for outside review. On the day of its publication, Sokal announced in another publication, Lingua Franca, that the article was a hoax, calling his paper “a pastiche of left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense”, which was “structured around the silliest quotations I could find about mathematics and physics” made by postmodernist academics.
The resulting debate focused on the relative scholarly merits or lack thereof of sociological commentary on the physical sciences and of postmodern-influenced sociological disciplines in general, as well as on academic ethics, including both whether it was appropriate for Sokal to deliberately defraud an academic journal, as well as whether Social Text took appropriate precautions in publishing the paper.
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