Actual events don't matter, just vague recollections that may or may not be accurate?
This is where postmodernism, for all it's positives, fails us. There must be certain factual truths, maybe not in some metaphysical sense or whatever, but these are issues that could be brought before a court of law. We have to set standards for reality, fact, and truth if we are to have a successful society.
This is the kind of thinking that leads people to say nonsense like "every opinion is valid" with the implication that opinions are justified by the equality and dignity of every human. Well guess what, just because everyone is equal doesn't mean everyone's opinion is valid or every "different reality" is valid.
And we wonder how the GOP has managed to win the message war! We wonder how people buy the false equivalence between progressive ideas and fascist lies! People simply do not care about facts or trying to uncover the truth. Everything is a soundbite. Everything is relative. Everything is valid, just because it is said. It's like some bad Orwellian acid trip.
And shame on you for reinforcing these things Mary Elizabeth Williams. You simultaneously and shamelessly criticize and validate every piece of of shit that oozes forth from the asshole of America. And then you write an article about how you're concerned the discourse is poor.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 12:28 PM ET" from Salon
This is where postmodernism, for all it's positives, fails us. There must be certain factual truths, maybe not in some metaphysical sense or whatever, but these are issues that could be brought before a court of law. We have to set standards for reality, fact, and truth if we are to have a successful society.
This is the kind of thinking that leads people to say nonsense like "every opinion is valid" with the implication that opinions are justified by the equality and dignity of every human. Well guess what, just because everyone is equal doesn't mean everyone's opinion is valid or every "different reality" is valid.
And we wonder how the GOP has managed to win the message war! We wonder how people buy the false equivalence between progressive ideas and fascist lies! People simply do not care about facts or trying to uncover the truth. Everything is a soundbite. Everything is relative. Everything is valid, just because it is said. It's like some bad Orwellian acid trip.
And shame on you for reinforcing these things Mary Elizabeth Williams. You simultaneously and shamelessly criticize and validate every piece of of shit that oozes forth from the asshole of America. And then you write an article about how you're concerned the discourse is poor.
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