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Re: the arrogance of postmodern mumbo jumbo
Eric Brunner (brunner@mandrake.think.com)
20 Sep 1996 21:03:39 GMT
Bryant (mycol1@unm.edu) wrote:
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: I see pm's as very much like Limbaugh--sophists who love to talk and
: yet, in the end, contribute little to our understanding of reality.
: They, like Limbaugh, purposefully mischaracterize what others say and
: mean, and like Limbaugh, are most profitably ignored.
Well, that takes care of a whacking great bit of French Intellectualism
since 1945, and places American, starting with Eric Wolf, if not earlier,
Intellectualism in a convienent sanitary disposable package labeled "Do
not open under penalty of intellectual discomfort."
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Kitakitamatsinohpowaw,
Eric Brunner
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