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Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen Hicks 5: Aerial Bacon

by Smitty Awaiting The Winged Pig The last episode ended in the mid-20th century with the Left seeking a new prophet to replace Marx for the cult of Postmodernism after certain difficulties arose around the Soviet Union. Rousseau was not alive enough to decline the dishonor. To review, Marxisism is a class analysis with three […]

Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen Hicks 4: Poisoned Enlightenment

by Smitty Poisoning the Enlightenment for fun and excitement Our last post was about the first half of the 20th century. Things were nearly interesting with the Postmodernists when, at last, even they realized that Karl Marx was a false prophet. Fortunately for the human race, they PoMo weenies repented of their ways, sought enlightenment, […]

Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen Hicks 3: Reason Is Over-rated

by Smitty‘Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table.’ The Enlightenment triggered vast improvement in the human condition, but also triggered reactions on the European continent. If Kant laid a left full rudder on philosophy, and Hegel brought philosophy’s engineering plant to ahead full, then Heidegger steadied the philosophy on […]

Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen Hicks 2: Counter-Enlightenment

by Smitty The Enlightenment’s emphasis on rationality quickly came under attack. Figuring that reality is mechanistic offend pietistic Germans, as it seemed to lead to Deism at best, and atheism at worst. The French absorbed the Enlightenment by way of Rousseau and arrived at the Terror, a.k.a. the French Revolution. Immanuel Kant, if I may […]

Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen R. C. Hicks

by Smitty Explaining Postmodernism is among the better books I have read in some time. Hicks, in a concise, lucid way, serves PoMo’s historical development since the Enlightenment. EP, in my opinion, is to philosophy what Liberal Fascism by Goldberg is to politics. In many ways, EP offers a different angle on a broader slice […]

If Kathleen Parker Was Just A Bit Less Masculine, She Might Be David Brooks

by Smitty Via Hot Air, we have Kathleen Parker going down a list of Paul Begala arguments regurgitated from Newsweek. She very vaguely seems to be trying to dispute Begala’s title “The Stupid Party” as a moniker for the GOP, but comes across more as: “Don’t. Stop. Don’t stop.” Yet another faux-conservative writer whose desire […]

David Lee Roth Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love, But Thomas Sowell Is, To Profound Effect

by Smitty (via The Corner) Click to view what is truly an excellent dialogue, and one worth sharing with all those who have ears. If the guy wasn’t 814 years old [ed: first day, new ears], we should have to press gang him into the presidency. And you can’t write that sort of title without […]

‘Partisan Koch-Brothers Style Attack’

The secret of punditry is to appear to know what you’re talking about. The most successful pundits are those who can utter incomprehensible gibberish with an air of certainty and authority. So I woke up before 4 a.m. this morning, came down to the office and turned the TV on to MSNBC. They were re-airing Sunday’s […]

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