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Nov 7, 2007

A Two Sentence Refutation of Postmodernism

Humor for the blood-bought. Insult to the heathen.

Postmodernism promotes the idea as truth, that in literature and language, propositional statements and truth claims cannot be universal and transcendent because it can be revealed through the deconstruction of the text or lecture that the author or orator’s viewpoint is culturally relative and conditioned by the undergirding philosophical ideas that shaped the author or orator’s culture from out of which he or she writes or speaks. Therefore, if that is true, and since we live in a postmodern society where the above stated ideas are prevalent, then it can be universally accepted as irrefutable fact that postmodernist philosophers and proponents of postmodernism in general are culturally conditioned by the above described postmodernism in society and postmodernist philosophy, making anything they say or write ultimately worthless because on the basis of their own hermeneutic, what they say and write is hopelessly meaningless and untrue, and any attempts to establish one single truth from postmodernism is excruciatingly futile.

In the words of Dr. Morey: “Hand them the knife and watch them slit their own throat.”

3 Comments, Comment or Ping

Will

Exactamente. We’re in the whatEVER generation. Everything is…like, you know…grey?

Nov 7th, 2007
Dr. Robert Morey

Dear Will,
To say “Everything is grey” is to make a black/white absolute truth claim. I love it when people refute themselves.

Nov 8th, 2007
Drew

A quote from Gordon Clark along these lines: “Strict definitions and strict adherence to them are essential to intelligible discussion. If one contender has one idea in mind – or perhaps no clear idea at all, while the other party to the debate entertains a different notion, or is equally vague – the result of the conversation is bound to be complete confusion. This is the elementary lesson that Socrates taught in the fifth century before Christ, but many people have not learned it yet.”

Nov 9th, 2007

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