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ABOUT FROM POSTMODERNISM -- FROM ANOTHER LIST.

Today's fashionable intellectualism goes like this:

There is not truth, or there are many truths.
There is no objectivity, or there are many objectivities called subjectivities.
Reason which pretends to produce truth does not exist.
Scientists who pretend to use reason to produce truth are pretenders.
What is left is passion. Passionate people do not pretend.
It is being passionate that really counts because there is no truth, no objecitivity, and no scientific method.
So those who are most passionate are most right.
Those who yell the loudest are the most passionate.
So those who yell and scream and are most obnoxious and insulting are right, even if there is no right or wrong.
Those who yell and scream and are most passionate have the deeeeeeeepest truths even if there is no truth.

That is pure nonsense, I think.
Ludwik Kowalski
Let the perfect not be the enemy of the good.