“But that was before the rot of postmodernism set in, the reductio that made all our crackerjack thinkers realize (some of them reluctantly) that our great Kantian sky hook wasn’t actually bolted to anything, and one man’s guess was as good as another’s” (Empires of Dirt, p. 56).
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It seems that humans are built to assume absolutes, but if you don’t have it outside yourself, in God, then you have to become your own god/absolute and have to fight with all the other gods.
And we changeable creatures make horrible absolutes.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot actually. It’s funny that conservatives attack liberals for being post modern and relativists. But the liberals are now standing up for empirical truth during the Trump era while the conservatives are now much less against relativism, as it helps them whenever Trump says something rediculous.
Examples?
“… that our great Kantian sky hook wasn’t actually bolted to anything.”
But is the left-handed smoke shifter pivot point anchored to anything as well?
” … the reductio that made all our crackerjack thinkers realize … that … one man’s guess was as good as another’s.”
Would to God that our contemporary “thinkers” actually viewed their opinions as mere guesses!
The worst of them, the growing majority of them, it seems, are full of a hateful and intense confidence in their unbolted irrationality.
“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed ….”
Yeats