----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Seay" <entheogens at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 5:10 PM Subject: Re: Paglia, Postmodern and Flight from Complexity
--- Ian Murray <seamus2001 at attbi.com> wrote: <<Well that's debatable to many people...What is reality anyway ;->? [can you tell it's time for beer and pretzels?]>>
Good point, Ian. It's been many years since I have read Lenin's "Empiro-Criticism" but, as I recall, it was, understandably, newtonian. I recall it taking a very "common sense" attitude towards the so-called "objective" world. Honestly with quantum physics and the really weird stuff that is coming out of superstring theory, how can anyone say that they are in a privleged position to know what reality is? The claim to such a privleged postion, so it seems to me, could only come either from a god or from a dogmatist.
As for the beer and pretzels, I had something more herbal in mind!
Thomas
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Not to mention some of the weird stuff going on in biology-ecology and math.....
I'm for any and all non-toxic food groups........except Brussels sprouts. ;-(
Ian