Date: 05 Nov 96 00:26:22 EST From: robert scheetz <76550.1064-AT-CompuServe.COM> Subject: M-I: anti-Sokal The Sokal sect is intoxicated with small beer. As with any "tool", Reason & Co are very useful; but the conflation of "fact" (their proper domain), with Truth is insufferable offends modesty. Since Robespiere foretold the advent of neo-God, we've glimpsed enough of His nether parts not to over-rate the benevolence of air-conditioning, e-mail, etc. That is to say, Reason provides no "grounding" for philanthropy, justice, piety, etc.,... intuitions all; while it manifestly does for abortion, first-strike, etc...after all, it would seem, an apotheosis of The Will to Power...Rand/Hayekian. Very likely, the Zuni mythology is, like all "history", a symbolic rationalization of, and argument for preserving, the statusquo. Likely, they came by their sacred homeland the same way we and the Israeli's did. Nationalism along with and in the sense of Possessionism is a power assertion, a fact...not truth. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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