The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

The False Dilemma Fallacy: Mitt or Newt? The Devil or the Deep Blue Sea?

Jeff Foxworthy says that, as a Southerner, the minute you open your mouth, people deduct 15 points from your IQ score. It’s a joke that’s funny because it’s so true. People automatically associate Southern accents with stereotypical backwoods hicks, and so I’ve spent my whole life being underestimated by Yankee smart-asses who think they know […]

Amanda Marcotte Has a Conniption Over the Rights of … Shemale Scouts?

You can’t make up stuff as weird as this. In Colorado, a 7-year-old boy named Bobby who thinks he’s a girl wanted to joined the Girl Scouts and was initially rejected. But then the Girl Scout council changed its mind and declared, “If a child identifies as a girl and the child’s family presents her […]

Exploring ‘Explaining Postmodernism’ By Stephen Hicks 6: Four Whore’s Men

by Smitty The stunning conclusion. The Four Whore’s Men of the Apocalypse If there was any redeeming value in the thought of their predecessors, then Michel Foucault, Jean-François Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty scuttled it. God save their souls, and damn their ‘ideas’. These chaps have done Western civilization no favors whatsoever. Let their […]

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 […]

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