There's a reason the demonstrators declined your invitation. In their post truth epistemology, facts and logic, indeed, an external reality are all the invention of the white European cis heteronormative patriarchal cultural colonialists erected to oppress everyone else. The modes of verbal disagreement favored by that regime must be dis…
There's a reason the demonstrators declined your invitation. In their post truth epistemology, facts and logic, indeed, an external reality are all the invention of the white European cis heteronormative patriarchal cultural colonialists erected to oppress everyone else. The modes of verbal disagreement favored by that regime must be discarded in favor of naked power exercised by the print and other media and by silencing any dissent by force when intimidation fails.
In his follow-up book "Fashionable Nonsense", Sokal describes hearing a paper by some postmodernist arguing that any text could be interpreted to mean anything. Sokal asked him if the letter turning down his next grant proposal said No, would he expect to get the money.
There's a reason the demonstrators declined your invitation. In their post truth epistemology, facts and logic, indeed, an external reality are all the invention of the white European cis heteronormative patriarchal cultural colonialists erected to oppress everyone else. The modes of verbal disagreement favored by that regime must be discarded in favor of naked power exercised by the print and other media and by silencing any dissent by force when intimidation fails.
To which nonsense should be the rejoinder: "Is that a fact?"
In his follow-up book "Fashionable Nonsense", Sokal describes hearing a paper by some postmodernist arguing that any text could be interpreted to mean anything. Sokal asked him if the letter turning down his next grant proposal said No, would he expect to get the money.
Even Postmodernists look both ways when crossing the street. It's either the bus, or you.
Well, your description is accurate. That's psychotic. "People are strange." - The Doors (& THEY should know!)
("...or are you just glad to see me?")